Viewing this hideous tableau, appreciating what it meant-that Popinot, forearmed with advice from a trusted quarter, had stationed himself outside the door to Monk's stateroom, to waylay and garotte the man whom he expected to emerge therefrom laden with the plunder of Monk's safe-Lanyard appreciated further that he had done Mr. Mussey a great wrong.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
The gigantic Burrows was toiling in the garotte of Rupert, while Basil was striving to master his mighty hands.
"The Club of Queer Trades"
G. K. Chesterton
They then bared one of his arms, tied round it a new silk ribbon through which they passed a short stick, and gave it two turns gently, after the manner of the garotte with which criminals are strangled.
"The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra