That was the most sensible thing he said; if such a tormentor as gout can be consigned to the nether regions by the mere utterance of a word, by all means let the word be uttered.
Plaisted drew a sigh of relief when his tormentor vanished.
Still the duchess dared not rejoice, for she feared that her tormentor had told his wife the secret of his power.
If her tormentorpossessed all his father’s vices, depravity, and cold-blooded perversity, he had certainly not inherited the parental intelligence or tact.
In spite of her fleetness Scotty caught his tormentor as she dodged round a tree; he held her in a sturdy grip and shook her for her impudence until her sunbonnet fell off.
Ever since, Store Thompson had been free from his tormentor and the young man was known between the Oa and the Flats as "Ambiguous Mike.
As Scotty moved down to the landing he gave his tormentor a good-humoured shaking.
Nevertheless, he bent down and extracted thetormentor with the skill acquired in many summers' apprenticeship.
The goodly appearance you have inherited from your sire will not be long left when the tormentor takes you in hand.
He took no part in aiding the tormentor in his task; but he watched all that was done with atrocious satisfaction.
Lulu felt ready to burst into passionate weeping, but would not give her tormentor the satisfaction of seeing her do so.
But his tormentor was in a towering passion and would not stay his hand to listen to any excuse.
The grim features of my tormentor relaxed as he saw the change that came over me.
Buy a very fine Mouse--trap, or a tormentor for your Fleas.
She did not fly into a rage and did not say a word, but she looked at hertormentor with latent hatred in her dark eyes.
The triumphant tormentor cried: "You can see plainly that he has no papa.
There are in the Play of the Self-Tormentor of Terence's, which is allowed a most excellent Comedy, several Incidents which would draw Tears from any Man of Sense, and not one which would move his Laughter.
Here the tormentor prudently fell back half a length and raised his voice so as to be heard above the flying feet.
For several miles his tormentor raced behind in silence, fearing, if he persisted longer in his evil course, that Jeff would actually stop and give himself up.
He passed round the end of the house where I was sitting with the agent: he seemed to take no notice of me, but fixed his eyes on his tormentor till he passed quite by us.
Were there nothing else to prove it a system of monstrous cruelty, the fact that FEAR is the only motive with which the slave is plied during his whole existence, would be sufficient to brand it with execration as the grand tormentor of man.
John turned quickly upon histormentor as he said, "That's the thirteenth time I have heard you get off that old joke.
The Armenian, however, did not delay and when the Black Growler departed, the boys were able to see the disappearing figure of their tormentor walking rapidly up the hill.
The tormentorhas wrapped itself around the root of the tooth.
And Olivia Marchmont, being resolute and strong-minded, would not have rested until her tormentor had paid the penalty of her foul work at a stake in the nearest market-place.
And was it only fancy which induced me to believe that, with the increase of my own firmness, that of my tormentor underwent a proportional diminution?
The second and the third day passed, and still my tormentor came not.
He had been quickly unbound, and rolled to the ground, and as he lay there, dazed with the sudden revulsion, the voice of his arch-tormentor fell once more upon his ears.
Was it some fresh act of devilry on the part of his tormentor that he should be brought to this ghastly place in the dead of night; and, when he should reach it--what then?
So far his tormentor had confined his malice to tortures that were mainly mental.
Was it possible that Villani, her tormentor and cruel persecutor, indeed wished her well and desired to become her friend?
Nothing would give me greater pleasure," answered John, with such heartiness that a sudden color dried Dolly's wet cheeks, as she remembered that he had got rid of tormentor number one by taking his place.
My last hour is arrived: I see my tormentor once more approaching me in this wild.
I am solemnly pledged; and, though I dared to repent, I am aware he will not be gainsaid, for he is raging with despair at his fallen and decayed majesty, and there is some miserable comfort in the idea that my tormentor shall fall with me.
Rejoicing that mytormentor has lost traces of me for once, I am making haste to leave my asylum, on pretence of following this stranger, but in reality to conceal myself still more completely from his search.
At the tormentor line there will be, of course, a Grand Drapery and Working Drapery which will mask the first entrance overhead.
All vaudeville stage settings are made back of the tormentor line.
And the appeal is not at all in the form of a cry to a tormentor for mercy; it seeks friendly sympathy and avenging actions.
But in the overthrow of their most annoying tormentor the oppressed people are at once liberated from a very appreciable part of their troubles.
