stranglers

They designated, moreover, certain responsible men in the different round-up districts, to whom subordinate bands of the "stranglers" reported from time to time for orders.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

Who the "stranglers" themselves were, nobody seemed to know.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

The precipitous methods of the "stranglers," as they were grimly called, began to give the most hardened "the creeps."

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

But the time for such things was passing away; and during the preceding fall the vigilantes—locally known as "stranglers," in happy allusion to their summary method of doing justice—had made a clean sweep of the cattle country along the Yellowstone and that part of the Big Missouri around and below its mouth.

Sheriff's Work on a Ranch 1896

The Vigilantes purged themselves of the false members, and carried their own title of opprobrium, the "stranglers," with unconcern or pride.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

In 1810 the bodies of thirty victims were found in wells between the Ganges and Jumna, and in 1816 Dr. Sherwood published a paper entitled 'On the Murderers called Phânsigars', _sc. _ 'stranglers', in the _Madras

Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

"stranglers" what men to "get," and that was all; and a day or two later a man here and a man there would be found dangling from a cottonwood.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

And then you have stranglers like Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, and David Harbour with bit parts, who do a good enough job but leave little if any impression.

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