These are not the days of the thumbscrew and the rack, Captain Macdonald, and a man's tongue cannot be made to speak by any other means than a little confinement in a prison cell.
But that thumbscrew has got me guessing, as our American cousins say.
Yes, I expect the thumbscrew hurt," said Reggie, meditatively.
I should have sworn to believe in every heathen goddess, and the Thirty-Nine Articles long before they put the thumbscrew really on.
A); or by a flat piece of wood sliding in a metal groove in the bottom of the box, which can be fixed at any spot by tightening the thumbscrew of a brass guide rod which transfixes the partition (Fig.
By means of a thumbscrew D (which mechanically raises or lowers the column of mercury irrespective of the temperature) and the aid of a thermometer the apparatus can be set to keep the incubator at any desired temperature.
The first time I met Mr. Potts," he remarked, "that swell Frenchman was just preparing to put a thumbscrewon his second thumb.
He had just remembered thethumbscrew of the preceding evening.
The man who could abduct an American millionaire, and drug him till he was little better than a baby, and then use a thumbscrew to enforce his wishes, was not likely to prove over-scrupulous in the future.
But I want to say, the thumbscrew having got out of the way, I am going to have my say.
Under the benign reign of universal love, every court had its chamber of torture, and every priest relied on the thumbscrew and rack.
They were the rack, the faggot, the thumbscrew in this world, and hell in the next.
And then they screwed this thumbscrewdown as far as they could and threw him into some dungeon, where, in throbbing misery and the darkness of night, he dreams of the damned; but that was done in the name of universal love.
The opposite end is free and rests against the end of a thumbscrew which passes through "E.
Proper adjustment of the thumbscrew and bar makes the box ready for use.
It is generally preferable to have the bar taper to a slightly narrower width at its free end, and near this free end it is necessary to solder a small strip of platinum at the point where the end of thumbscrew comes in contact.
Are metal uprights with a thumbscrew on the top, under each of which a wire terminates.
The thumbscrew is to be adjusted so that the free end of "F" will rest against it in a temperature of 70 deg.
Not otherwise the Spaniards under Bloody Alva were "supermen" in terms of rack, thumbscrew and instruments of torture.
Does she remember thethumbscrew of former generations?
I am only wondering if, in the extracting of testimony from the common mind, the thumbscrew might not have been more necessary with some nations than with others.
This must have been a thumbscrew for the Secretary when he presently read the pamphlet that escaped his officers.
Some went into those walls to suffer tortures worse than death--tortures of the thumbscrew and rack, to make them betray the names of their companions.
The thumbscrew was a little thing, but caused great agony.
Illustration: A row of twenty sideways ems] Usually the knee should be set lightly against the gage when the thumbscrew is tightened.
Make it a practice to try the thumbscrew occasionally while using the stick to prevent the knee from becoming loose, as it may in case the lines are justified tightly.
When the measure is set, make the thumbscrew as tight as possible with the fingers.
The day of the rack, the thumbscrew and the stake, is long past: in place of these instruments of religious discipline we have--the Ally.
He had brought into use a little steel thumbscrew which gave such exquisite torment that it had wrung confessions even out of men on whom His Majesty's favourite boot had been tried in vain.
The vizor is composed of a single bar of metal, square in shape, which slides up and down in an iron socket attached to the front of the helmet, and is held in any position by a thumbscrew as shown in the illustration.
The only adjustment necessary is that of leveling, which is accomplished by turning the thumbscrew shown at A, Fig.
The pipe that is soldered to the metal support will slide up and down the rod and the thumbscrew can be set to hold it at the desired point.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thumbscrew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boot; rack; screw; torture; wheel
