Volyova's voice sounded slightly choked, as if she were in the process of slow strangulation.
This was the common method of hanging of the day, and caused death by slow strangulation.
No quick snapping of the neck, only slow strangulation.
Better a truly decisive stroke than slow strangulation, don't you agree?
But for this Verdun would have been doomed to die of slow strangulation.
They felt the court continued to exhibit a "business of slow strangulation of the rule."
The dryness in his throat felt like slow strangulation.
You are all that stands between Sacrus and the slow strangulation of the very world!
We are witnessing the slow strangulation of a wonderful nation and a wonderful people.
The death of a thousand cuts, to be brought to a conclusion on the tenth day by slow strangulation.