Do you prefer drowning or lynching?
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
But this isn't a lynching bee.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
Assaults upon women, such as are frequent in those States, and have recently caused a hideous epidemic of lynching, are extremely rare; indeed, I heard of none, save one or two in Natal, where the natives are comparatively wild and the whites scattered thinly among them.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce