" "Let this thy prisoner be set within the cell above the torture chamber, so, lying within the dark he must needs hear them cry below, and in his mind shall he suffer as they suffer, every pang of racking wheel and searing iron.

My heart misgave me when I saw that chair and fire, and smelt that sickly smell, for I guessed this was a torture room, and these the torturers waiting.

When Thurstane, turning his back on the torture scene, had ascended to the roof of the Casa, he found the ladies excited and anxious.

Prepare the torture stakes.

The torture pool.

"Dungeon and torture-rack, These shall now pay thee back!

The following lines are from the Genesis: "The Lord made anguish a reward, a home In banishment, hell groans, hard pain, and bade That torture house abide the joyless fall.

Torture canyon, by Max Brand, pseud.

The great fear was lest the brutes should find all bribes poor compared with the joys of a torture dance.

THE BEGGAR There stood a beggar asking alms By the cathedral gate, His face bore torture marks of life Pale, tired, blindlike fate.

Either the law must kill or torture prisoners condemned for mild offenses, or it must permit them to dictate their own terms of durance.

The only relief is a poultice of snow, but as that melts away the tortures return.

She must the burden unassisted bear, I cannot with her in her tortures share: Would they were mine, and me flood easy by; For what one loves, sure 'twere not hard to die.

The devil calls him his white son; he is so like him that he is the worse for it, and he takes after his father, for the one torments bodies as fast as the other tortures souls.

It should be said in justice that the present Shah has done all he can to stop the torture system, and confine the death-sentence to one of two methodspainless and instantaneousthroat-cutting and blowing from a gun.

Torture not the poor ant, which drags the grain Along the dust; it has a life, and life Is sweet and precious.

My heavy cursse, But that't would be a blessynge, shoulde rewarde thee; And for thy disobedyence to thy lorde Ile torture thee, for I will wish thee well.

A few more years and the leaping and the writhing and the torture cease, the fire burns to a steady, inextinguishable glow.

He said laughingly: "Let him alone, boys; we want him in prime condition for the grand final torture ceremonies.

Laughing Water sitting on torture chair!

Soudain, avançant dans l'ornière Où le monstre attendait sa torture dernière, L'âne vit le crapaud, et, triste,hélas!

Now that I knew the door by which I could escape I thought I might wait a little to see how far my evils would extend, and what new tortures fate had in store for me.

" "More I will not tell," added the woman; "no, nor more shall any tortures force from me, unless you bind yourselves not to prosecute me,unless you promise me my liberty.

No one pretends that Western settlers have injured Indians, but Eastern philanthropists, through the government they control, have, according to their own showing, been guilty of no end of frauds; and as they do not, and cannot, stop the stealing, they pay their debts to the noble red man by licensing him to outrage women, torture infants and burn homes.

dost not often come To thy bed-side and like a fairy pinch Thy prostituted limbs, then laughing tell thee 'Tis in revenge for myriads of black tortures Thy lust inflicted on it?