Shall this Marmaduke Nevile have it to say to his fair kinswoman, with the unforgiving malice of a lover's memory, that the princely Gloucester stooped to be the torturer of yon poor old man?
Seeing which, and that she persisted in her denial, we ordered the torturer to proceed to the torture by jerks.
The best concrete example of the mood I am trying to indicate is the emotion which any one would naturally feel in the presence of some torturer or tyrant whom he had slain, or even whom he had surprised asleep.
The leadingtorturer reached out to grasp Yoritomo’s shoulder.
Keiki made a sign, and the torturer again twisted the cord.
Diego Matheo López Zapata, as soon as the torturer was ready to begin, exclaimed that he was ready to confess, and made a detailed confession of Judaic practices followed for nearly fifty years.
In one case we find a man of such fibres and nerves that all the efforts of the torturer fail to elicit aught but denial--the cords may rasp through the flesh to the bone and limbs be wrenched to the breaking without affecting his constancy.
On the other hand, she did feel as if she had been caught by a torturer who did not mean to let her go.
For a moment she thought of the Bible, of religion; then of her sensation that she had been caught by a torturer who would not let her go.
Then the torturer tied Katheline to the stake, placed on her shorn scalp a wig of tow, and held it in the fire.
Then they gave her more water, and this she would have carried over to Joos Damman had not the torturer wrested the goblet from her hand.
The torturer meanwhile sat Katheline down on the lid of an oak coffin which was placed on trestles.
And he retired with the torturer and the clerk of the court, leaving Katheline alone in front of the fire in the place of torture.
The torturer then wrapped some damp cloths round her breast and body and legs, and raising the bench upright he proceeded to pour great quantities of hot water down her throat so that her stomach became all swollen.
The alderman commanded the torturer to remove Katheline from the coffin-lid, and to take off the shoes from her feet.
And the torturer poured more hot water into her; but this Katheline brought all up again.
The torturer put her on the seat stark naked, and then shaved off her hair, looking carefully to see that no charm was concealed anywhere about her person.
When the torturer saw that she was recovered from this first ordeal, he said to her: "Confess that you are a witch, and that you laid a charm on the cow.
She was taken to the grand market of Damme by the torturer and his assistants.
When he opened them, the torturer was snoring beside him.
As he came awake he realized that he was screaming at thetorturer to stop.
Let her forgive him for herself, if she will, let her forgive the torturer for the immeasurable suffering of her mother’s heart.
The public roars with delight that the tortureris acquitted.
Bastian had always difficulty in persuading a servant to fetch it from under the house.
If a branch of a tree touched the child's head, the tree was cut down; and if in its fall it injured another tree so as to penetrate the bark, that tree also was cut down as unclean and unfit for use.
The name of the chieftorturer of the good city of Rouen, Mauger, has a gruesome ring about it--it reminds one of the headsman in Harrison Ainsworth's novel of the Tower of London.
The evidence of no less a person than the torturer is called next.
Johnnie turned also, and saw that the torturerwas tumbling several long-handled pincers into a wooden tray.
At that moment both Commendone and the sworn torturer realised what had happened.
The torturer took the glowing thing on the top of the brazier, and pulled it off, scattering the coals as he did so.
The torturer saw it--he had a dreadful knowledge of those who were about to faint.
The torturer tied ropes round Orobio's wrists, and then put those ropes about his own back, which was covered with leather to prevent his hurting himself.
In the midst of these torments, the torturer of a sudden drew the bench from under him, so that the miserable wretch hung by the cords without anything to support him, and by the weight of his body drew the knots yet much closer.
Now my father is the head sworn-torturer of the Holy Office; my brother is his assistant, and I am the assistant to my brother.
Erculio, Daoud sensed, enjoyed feigning the gleeful torturer precisely because it was a way of tormenting d'Ucello himself.
In the light of the oil lamp hanging overhead, his naked body was a golden color, and free, as far as she could tell, from the marks of insult the podesta's torturer had inflicted upon it last summer.
Then the torturer pressed a red-hot poker against the soles of his feet.
But when the news of the finding of Danusia, her rescue and the presence of her torturer in Spychow was confirmed by Hlawa, he fell upon his knees to thank God for it.
I have done that; but must the torturer of my master and his daughter leave without revenge and punishment?
I am not sure, but believe that pseudo-science, the Torturer of these days, denied her the least drop of alcohol during her travail.
If it did permit one drop, then was the Torturerfalse to his creed.
Through the progress of the meal--prepared by her in the way the torturerloved so well--she diverted him with her lively prattle.
And at length, when she trod on the dog and caused it to give out a long-drawn howl, she made such a neat allusion to the Chamber and heretics that the torturer laughed till the tears streamed down his cheeks.
THE public torturer hurried home in an irritable frame of mind.
As he approached the cottage which was enshrined in his heart by a thousand sacred associations as home, the torturer strove to rise superior to his worries.
The sound of rain outside brought the torturer and his wife to the door.
The torturer would relax the pressure and say: "The names?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torturer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
