The execution was over, and the unfortunate man who underwent all this torture had still sufficient strength to return to his own house on foot.
When a tooth is entirely decayed, he is compelled to have recourse to the armourer or farrier, who is privileged to torture his patient, to break his jaw with his pincers, and tear away the gums together with the tooth that was troubling him.
The torture I endured with the stomach trouble I will not attempt to describe.
If you look in upon the Roman as he watches the public torture of prisoners in the first part of last century you will have the story in brief of his irresponsibility, his unstrenuous attitude towards all such matters.
They did not think as we do, and centuries were to elapse before the minimisers or the maximisers would torture what they said and did with meanings they would not bear.
Little by little, however, with the spread of civilisation, Jews have been spared the torture of these baths.
At last, from this point, the positive torture of driving in carriages was over, and Chappar horses were to be obtained.
Death, in short, is necessary, but torture is not.
Is it possible to conceive that to a creature any greater torture could be applied?
And fox-hunting is framed to produce the maximum of torture to the quarry.
The same torture made the bird bow twice more, and to reward it its master placed it in the hands of a lady, begging her to keep it.
This did not prevent me suffering severe pain, but I soon experienced a torture a thousand-fold greater when I heard a violent storm burst out in the house.
As the rope of torture was permanently rove through the pulley over the front door, it must have been impossible not to see it and remember what it meant every time one went in or out.
As for the condition of real slaves, it was not so bad in early times as it became later, but the master's power was absolute to inflict torture and death in any shape.
I don't think the Apaches handed out anything much worse in the torture line than the quiver of a woman's ringers upon your shoulder, when you know that those fingers aren't quivering on your account.
Twice they circled about the blood-spattered arena, Brokaw following him with leisurely sureness, and yet delaying his attack as if in that steady retreat of his victim he saw torture too satisfying to put an end to at once.
It was torture to watch him, with the fear, every instant, that Hauck would come.
What an awful torture it must be to be hungry for love and beauty in such a form!
If he had all those policemen in that high-walled court he would not have inflicted any torture upon them.
A series of studied and elaborate torture commences, in which ingenuity is tasked to the utmost to inflict the intensest agony that can be endured without actually extinguishing life.
To throw a prisoner into the cauldron, is to devote him to torture and death; to take him out, is to pardon and receive him as a member of the community.
Some even deride the feeble efforts of their executioners, boasting how much more effectively they themselves had applied torture to individuals of their tribe.
Claudio; “he would but make sport of it, and torturethe poor lady worse.
This being done to you, and no part of the torture being on any plea omitted, ye shall be brought back to the Fleet Prison, and be there incarcerated for the residue of your lives.
By the modes oftorture he adopted through his agents, he could break the most stubborn spirit, and subdue the strongest.
Then came your dear mother to torture me farther, with all her kindness and confidence.
Illustration: The Torture of the Huguenots---552] The misfortunes were redoubling.
Cornelius van Witt was put to the torture to make him confess his crime.
I do not intend to be seen by anybody," said he, "but to make speedily for England, as I do not think I am strong enough to undergo the torture the cardinal might put me to in his own room on the least suspicion.
He egged on the soldiers to torture the inhabitants of the houses they were quartered in, commanding them to keep awake all those who would not give in to other tortures.
Little did the fine fellow know what pangs he was causing our hero, for to Steve, if he were condemned to die as a spy, shooting would be infinitely preferable to the death by torture which the Indians would inflict.
They will slay us with the torture should it chance that we fall into their hands," said Silver Fox gravely.
And till the time for torture arrived he was a brother and a man, deserving of respect and attention, not a beast to be goaded and bullied and loaded with chains.
White girl alive, incos, the other two women alive, but not live long, torture them bad.
For if the extremity of torture should extort the admissions they do seek from him, many should then grievously suffer, and mostly his own soul.
What that pleasure proved, ten years of unmitigated suffering and slow torture evinced; one of the most grievous of which was that his lady could never obtain for to see him, albeit other prisoners' wives had easy access to them.
Branded with hereditary infamy and excluded from all hope of honour or of property, may they suffer the torture of disgrace and poverty until they shall look upon life as a curse and long for death as a kind release.
Mediaeval penal justice sought to inflict the greatest possible amount of suffering on the offender and showed a diabolical fertility of invention in devising new methods of torture even for the pettiest trespasses.
The offender was slung by a chain over a fire, and by means of a crane was dipped up and down into the flame, the torture being thus prolonged for an indefinite time.
The various emotions of shame and remorse, penitence and regret, whichtorture and distract my guilty breast, exceed description.
Had he been armed, doubtless, he would have ended by suicide, the most cruel mental torture which man was ever forced to endure--but he had no weapon.
Willingly would he have consented to be put to the torture before receiving his death-blow, if he might have been allowed to follow Marie-Anne in her undertakings.
She almost believed she saw again the Martial of the little blue salon at Courtornieu; but the realization of her cherished dream was now only another torture added to all the others.
Lacheneur appeared almost ready to succumb to the tortureof the terrible conflict raging in his soul.
She said to herself that it was only an act of justice which she had accomplished; that the vengeance she had taken was not proportionate to the offence, and that nothing could atone for the torture she had endured.
This torture soon became so intolerable that he was willing to brave anything to appease it.
The grayback looked as cool and impudent as though he was perfectly assured of his prey, and intended to torture his victim with his tongue, as he would with his knife or his rifle if occasion required.
In all of them, dirt, cruelty, fever, torture and abuses reigned unchecked.
Torture was prohibited by the law of England, but many inhuman keepers used thumb-screws and iron caps with obnoxious prisoners, for the amusement of themselves and their boon companions.
He had been subject to the misery and torture of Haddington jail for eighteen months, without once leaving his cell for an airing.
Every inch won was torture now, but the brave feet toiled on.
And his death-bed was a premature hell oftorture and remorse.
He declares that the chosen people have been chosen for the plaything of the fates, fed with illusions and windy conceit, and rewarded for their fidelity with torture and persecution.
It dropped on his brain, this falling water, as on the prisoner's in the mediaeval torture chamber.
