He recalled how, a few moments before, she withdrew her hand, not wishing to pat Saba, who had finished, by strangling, one of the Bedouins.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
In Hard Times Tom Gradgrind became a low, degraded, sensual, dissipated criminal, and Dickens accounts for his failure by the unnatural restraint, constant oversight, and the strangling of his imagination in his cradle and afterward.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Tom Gradgrind is used as a type of the degradation that results from "the strangling of the imagination."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes