Not only did it make the knife hand helpless, but by bearing down with his own weight Donnegan could put his enemy in most exquisite torture.

The week passed in such mental torture as tries the strong when confronted by the major force of conscience.

He moved to amend by substituting slow torture.

More perfect patience than Hayley manifested under his excruciating tortures, it never was my lot to witness.

" A wealthy merchant at Tangier, whose auri sacra fames had led him to resist for a long time the cruel tortures that had been, employed against him, yielded at length to the following trial.

Within a few weeks after this, several who had long been inquirers came and requested baptism, although they were well aware that by doing so they were making themselves liable to death by most horrible torture.

Men have certainly grown more good-natured, in some countries, in that they dislike more than their ancestors did, to inflict bodily torture on human beings; but they are just as ready, or even more ready, to inflict on those whom they dislike that moral and mental torture which to noble souls is worse than any bodily pain.

For a trifling indiscretion Sarah was thus condemned to extreme physical torture.

The morning light would bring me daily torture, the evening dusk a night of blasting dreams.

I rend my winding-sheet; a frightful craving tortures me incessantly, as if some serpent stung continually within.

He came to himself, feeling deadly sick but no longer gripped by that fiendish torture.

The layers mingled, fighting against themselves in endless torture.

Human sacrifices were practised among them: the spoils of war were often devoted to their divinities; and they punished with the severest tortures whoever dared to secrete any part of the consecrated offering; these treasures they kept in woods and forests, secured by no other guard than the terrors of their religion

I knew that death, speedy and painless, was the penalty of treason to the Order, that a death of prolonged torture might be the vengeance of the power that menaced me.

She was in acute torture.

I suppose cannibalism and infanticide, polygamy, judicial torture, religious persecution, witchcraft, during all the years we did these "inevitable" things, were defended in the same way, and those who resented all criticism of them pointed in triumph to the cannibal feast, the dead child, the maimed witness, the slain heretic, or the burned witch.

Of a verity we would have tested their keenest torture before death came to our relief.

By the middle of the afternoon his thirst had become sheer torture.

That fiery torture would be infinitely harder to bear now, and she knew that the fieriest point of it all would be the desperate, aching longing to know again the love that had shone and burnt itself out in the blast-furnace of his sin.

"Finding that he would be destined to endure excruciating pain of the feet, and additional tortures, he abstained from food altogether.

In Normandy, one thumb was squeezed in a screw in the ordinary, and both thumbs in the extraordinary torture.

So that, on this view, the whole race is actually destined to eternal torture and damnation, and created expressly for this end, the only exception being those few persons who are rescued by election of grace, from what motive one does not know.

Any suspicion of his father's interpretation of his presence in Sheila's room was mercifully spared him, but the knowledge that he had been brutally jerked back from her pure and patient lips, had been ignominiously punished before her eyes and turned out like a whipped boythis knowledge was a dreadful torture to his pride.

"Later I met various prisoners whose evidence corroborated the inhuman tortures which they had endured.

They have seen the hideous tortures and mutilations inflicted in every native war.