| 1. | 'Speak out, or I'll throttle you. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | "Curses throttle thee" yelled Ahab. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | 'I will throttle you for good,' I corrected myself. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 4. | I began to throttle it with my hands. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | "Let them I don't care a straw about anyone but those I love but those I love, I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I'd throttle if they stood in my way. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a foe. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 9. | The dog was throttled off his huge, purple tongue hanging half a foot out of his mouth, and his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 10. | She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides she showed virile force in the contest--more than once she almost throttled him, athletic as he was. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 11. | And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and, by Jesus, he near throttled him. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |