There was evidently nothing to be gained by trying on him any of Burke's third degree methods.
At the Cabaret Rouge, Bernice Bentley had been held and put through a third degree, without disclosing a thing, if indeed she knew anything.
Above the hubbub of the raid I could hear O'Hanlon putting poor little Miss Golder through a third degree.
He was the father of much of the "third degree" methods used on witnesses.
This boy, the weakest of the men on trial, was driven insane by the unspeakable "third degree" administered in the city jail.
Inside, a lumber trust lawyer and his official assistants were administering the "third degree" to the arrested loggers, to make them "confess.
The government was still operating the Third Degree, only on a grander scale.
Every act of those about me seemed to be a part of what, in police parlance, is commonly called the "Third Degree.
After the Otter had received the third degree he prepared himself for the fourth, and highest, by taking a steam bath once a day for four successive days (Nos.
So at last Guffey wearied of this futile inquisition; or perhaps it occurred to him that this was too public a place for the prosecution of a "third degree"--there might be some one listening outside the door.
It was a generalized sort of lift, the kind of thing that qualifies a TK for the Thirty-third degree.
I might have reached the thirty-third degree, but I wasn't quite as big a shot as I thought I was.
But Peno had known me from my days on the Crap Patrol, and wasn't much impressed that I'd reached the thirty-third degree.
The roots are hot and dry in the second or third degree, and send up unwholesome vapours to the head.
You're going to put him through the 'third degree,' eh?
What was this "third degree" they were talking about?
With his "third degree" seances he arrived at results better and more quickly than in any other way.
Unknown to him, Captain Clinton had already begun the dreaded police ordeal known as the "third degree.
I'll give you one minute, and if you have not answered by that time I shall give you a 'third degree' with the butt of this gun.
Yep--he demanded the whereabouts of a certain girl--accused so and so of stealing her and gave him a third degree.
The stenographers, used as they were to "third degree" work, showed signs of pity for the wretched man on the stand.
Nevertheless, if a man have not that spirit, he is not a Mason, though he may have received the thirty-third degree.
There is a certain vicious delight in brutally smashing a sullen, helpless prisoner in the face; and the "third degree" is not officially in existence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "third degree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
