He was clearly trying to address Hobart, but all his spellbound palate could produce was the complaint of a cat having its neck wrung.

He wants his money, and my neck wrung, like that of any other who dared lay hands on his money.

It seemed to chill Tom to see me held like a chicken about to have its neck wrung.

One chicken was having its neck wrung.

In the morning she spelled a grouse to her hand, and after begging its pardon, wrung its neck.

Three of the true falcons, their necks wrung, left to be found by the next traveler along the way.

She ought to have her neck wrung.

I should like to have his neck wrung to-morrow by all the devils in Italy.

His neck was thin and would wring easily if someone were of a mind.

Maybe she saw her cow driven off, and the first chicken's neck wrung, before she could believe in fear.