He also informs us that Generals Dalziel and Drummond had imported thumbscrews from Russia, where they had seen them used, by which they crushed the thumbs of prisoners to compel them to confess.
It was understood that James meant that his favourite application of the boots and thumbscrews should be used, but this was not attempted.
It will generally be sufficient if the thumbscrews be screwed up hand-tight, the spanner being only used when necessary.
They tried thethumbscrews on me," said Spence with a pitiful smile, glancing at his injured members.
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Also, that these clamps and thumbscrews would strike the horse on the opposite fetlock and throw it down, and the centrifugal force would cause the shoes to fly off when the horse was going.
Thumbscrews and iron mittens will not be denied so easily.
I am right fain of his company, and in troth he can use the persuasions well,--the thumbscrews and tight boots upon occasion.
The general notion was that he was a knave and a coward, and that the first sight of the boots and thumbscrews would bring out all the guilty secrets with which he had been entrusted.
Smith was not willing to offer the bribe, and since the literal thumbscrews were out of the question, Shaw was locked into one of the vacant rooms across the corridor until his captors could determine what was to be done with him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thumbscrews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
