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Suddenly I feel two hands upon my shoulders, and the voice of the keeper exclaims, "What are you about?" I let my precious burden drop; she regains her chamber, and I, giving vent to my rage, throw myself flat on the floor of the balcony, and remain there without a movement, in spite of the shaking of the keeper whom I was sorely tempted to strangle.
His sudden arrival showed that Yerba must have sent for him and told him of Don Caesar's threats; would he be wild enough to attempt to strangle the man in some remote room or in the darkness of the passage?
The manner in which he does this gives rise to suspicions, and he is discovered to be a man; he flies to the altar for refuge, and to secure himself still more from the impending danger, he snatches a child from the arms of one of the women, and threatens to kill it if they do not let him alone. As he attempts to strangle it, it turns out to be a leather wine-flask wrapped up like a child.
So he had run away: he had been afraid; he, afraid of me! So ... so ... to-morrow ... or later ... some day or other ... I should be able to hold him in my clutches and crush him against the ground! Do not dogs occasionally bite and strangle their masters? August 18th. I have been thinking the whole day long.
"But I get thinking I get thinking, and my heart begins to hammer, and I lie awake nights, and I'd like to get up and strangle someone " His vehemence died into abashed silence before her grave eyes. "I ought to be the one to stamp and rave over this," Julia said.
The destruction of your enemy's forces will not avail for certain unless you have in reserve sufficient force to complete the occupation of his inland communications and principal points of distribution. This power is the real fruit of victory, the power to strangle the whole national life.
Before you will have reached the high road your father and I will be on your heels, and either he or I will strangle you ere you come within sight of my lord's castle." "You are mad!" she cried. "Or else an idiot." "Better look for that back-door key," he retorted. "What has the back-door key to do with it?" she asked sullenly.
They also used to strangle the old and infirm, so as to deliver them from the evils of life. These Troglodytes, then, were a nation of cave-dwellers, loving the dark not exactly loving death, yet at any rate regarding it with merriment and pleasure; and so I cannot help seeing a connection between them and the Kosekin." "Yes," said the doctor, "but how did they get to the South Pole?"
They are the most cunning and cruel fanatics in the world, and their religious vows would compel them to assassinate the unbeliever who has desecrated their sacred treasure. "Once in Lucknow three of their agents, disguised as servants in a hotel, endeavoured to strangle me with a twisted cloth.
The giant sat up. "Where are they? I see no bears. Where are they?" he asked. "There! There! Don't you see them?" cried the Inuit. "What! those little things! They are not worth all this bustle. They are nothing but small foxes." And he crushed one between his fingers, and put the other into the eyelet of his boot to strangle it. Ka-lo-pa-ling is a strange being who lives in the northern seas.
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