Strangling

I'll get them here as soon as I can.

Strangled.

and by a pretty powerful pair of hands I'd say.

it doesn't look as if she put up much of a struggle.

There is certainly something very strange about all this, he said a bit hectically.

I could have almost sworn that I heard a faint scuffle, the horrid sound of a person strangling Strangling, giggled Flame.

Oh, that is just the sound of Miss Flora's girlish glee.

If she'd only be content to chew the corner of the piano cover, but when she insists on hailing it too.