It was quite unlike most of the formally posed pictures, in which one ancestor or another glared out of their frames as though their collars were choking them.

The city says its police canine squad will concentrate on pit bulls with signs of being bred for fighting - scars, choke collars, aggressive behavior.

The inescapable fact was that the collar had not been choking it.

The ustuzou had said the collar was choking it.

The collar was not choking it.

The collar was choking him.

His collar was choking him.

The collar chokes you, the swords trip you, and the boot tassels catch on things.

Then the wolf had grown and grown until the collar was choking it.

She put her hand to her throat, feeling as if her collar choked her, cold with fear that bound her with rings of iron.