Which preposition to use with torture

of Occurrences 263%

This is meant to increase the torture of their subsequent sufferings, and there can be no doubt that it succeeds.

to Occurrences 96%

What would be torture to our quivering nerves, to her atrophied sensibilities is merely an occurrence of every day.

with Occurrences 62%

A face, human in its outline; but so tortured with woe, that I stared, aghast.

in Occurrences 61%

He said, so far as I could comprehend in the anguish and torture in which I was held, that the origin of thought was the question he was investigating, but that in every previous subject the confusion of ideas had bewildered them, and the rapidity with which one followed another.

for Occurrences 37%

" The leaders departed, to intrigue for the vacant posts, and devise tortures for Benedetto.

into Occurrences 24%

The worst part of a novel is the hero or heroine: these are too frequently fabrications from the author's fancy, instead of portraits from nature; or, if taken from life, they are tortured into a perfection that life never knew.

from Occurrences 19%

There were some who went on and on, and never seemed to tire; but to me the endless round came at last to be a torture from which I could not escape.

on Occurrences 14%

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.

at Occurrences 11%

In torture at the stake, and on the cross, by fire and by sword, they show forth an unshaken and undying faith.

as Occurrences 10%

The latter gazed solemnly on the instrument of torture as a thing essential to the performance of a duty, while the cavaliers seemed to have come more for the enjoyment of some rare sport, than to witness an execution of the law.

like Occurrences 9%

The tribe would also use other tortures like pouring boiling oil on people to get them to confess.

by Occurrences 8%

His charity extends no further than to mountebanks and sow-gelders, to whom he bequeaths the seasons of the year to kill or torture by.

out Occurrences 6%

"She is tortured out of reverence," Santorio exclaimed apart, and would have hushed her.

than Occurrences 5%

'They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked men or rather devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put them to more cruel tortures than the martyrs ever endured.

after Occurrences 3%

The nobles of second order possessed among their privileges that of wearing spurs of silver or gold according to their rank of knighthood; the right of receiving double rations when prisoners of war; the right of claiming a year's delay when a creditor wished to seize their land; and the right of never having to submit to torture after trial, unless they were condemned to death for the crime they had committed.

before Occurrences 3%

" Here are other things mentioned of the lion, equally unintelligible, if we suppose them to be spoken of our nation, as that he lies sluggish, and depraved with unlawful lusts, while his offspring is trampled and tortured before his eyes.

about Occurrences 2%

We stopped in the woods; my feet were denuded of their commonplace attire and arrayed in white hose, beautifully clocked, and those precious slices, and my poor conscience tortured about my vanity.

against Occurrences 2%

It chanced that Macro had plotted against Domitius and numerous others and had devised complaints and tortures against them.

among Occurrences 2%

Had he been surrounded by loving disciples, like Latimer at the burning pile, he might have summoned more strength; but alone, in a dark inquisitorial prison, subjected to increasing torture among bitter foes, he did not fully defend his visions and prophecies; and then his extorted confessions were diabolically altered.

between Occurrences 2%

I suppose the tenour is this:'Acute diseases are the immediate and inevitable strokes of Heaven; but of them the pain is short, and the conclusion speedy; chronical disorders, by which we are suspended in tedious torture between life and death, are commonly the effect of our own misconduct and intemperance.

over Occurrences 2%

But poor Sancho Panza did not get off scot free, for they tossed him in a blanket in the backyard, where the Don could see the torture over the wall, but could by no means get to the rescue of his squire.

under Occurrences 2%

Just now it had seemed so clear that only one thing could save her from clacking diatribes, from torture under the tongues of Ernestines and Mabels and daily newspapers marriage with Gratton.

within Occurrences 2%

To this place he brought our hapless countrymen, in order that they might undergo their severest tortures within its precincts.

overmuch Occurrences 1%

* I think BEATRICE GRIMSHAW tortures overmuch her tough bronzed Australian hero, who "could fight his weight in wild cats," and her beautiful slender heroine, "daughter of castles, descendant of crusaders."

without Occurrences 1%

When they awoke, would they not awake only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges?

Which preposition to use with  torture