Then had La Robe Noire, whose hands were bound, sprung upon his torturers and as the trapped badger snaps the hand of the hunter so had he buried his teeth in the face of a boasting Sioux.
The eta torturers dragged the girl to the post and lashed her fast.
Instantly two of the torturers seized the heroic victim and began lashing him to the post.
One of the torturers hastened across the pit, and returned with a bronze plate, which he cast down on the stone flagging before my friend.
The stern torturers rack the limbs of criminals until they confess all the foul plans of themselves and their accomplices.
One of them signed to thetorturers and commanded: “Bring the fumie.
Ravanel bore all the torments that could be inflicted on him with a fortitude that was more than human, so that the torturers were exhausted before he was.
No cry of pain was heard from the grand seneschal, he never stirred once in his frightful agony; yet the torturers put such fury into their work that the poor wretch was dead before the goal was reached.
There are torturers near--they are waiting--they will put you to cruel torments, for the sole purpose of drawing less damnable answers from you.
Then shall you, torturers of God's saints, call upon the mountains and rocks to cover you, and to hide you from the wrath of the Lamb.
Again the agony almost maddened him; again wild hatred and rage against his brother's torturers rose and surged like a flood within him.
Cholmondeley, as soon as his master had been borne away, was seized by the torturers and placed on the rack.
For you appear to us as yet only to have followed that path which leads to the torturers and the bow-strings.
And I think thou didst prefer me a little to the other two, but thou wert ever kind to me, and the torturers might have torn me into small pieces before I would have let fall one word to harm thee.
And now, in the full daylight, the terrible injuries that poor Nomshasa had received, both from the torturers and the teeth and claws of the beasts, looked so awful that every living moment must be to her a moment of intense agony.
Louder and funereally rang the dismal bells; the torturers drew near; I struggled to rise to my feet--and awoke.
There was, however, something about the picture of Wilma in the hands of the torturers that did not seem real to me, and my mind still resisted.
Real pain came from his finger tips as the torturers began operations again.
As he performed the action that went with the words, the big gallery, Cuso, the lieutenant, and the torturers faded away and became a part of a misty world that seemed to have no real existence.
He was barbarously hanged in a withey (withe) calling on God, and forgiving his torturers with all his heart.
The Danes were to be the first torturers of that happy and holy people; the hardy rovers of the northern seas were coming to inaugurate a long era of woe.
Then he fell down, and his torturers scalped him, and threw burning coals on his bare skull.
They deliberately made the deeds of the torturers and women-killers their own, and this they did with the approbation of the British Government, and to its merited and lasting shame.
People do not believe a word these contortionists of language and torturers of meaning write or say.
Plato represents the fiery torturersand executioners in Hades who preside over the punishment of the impious.
One of the torturers tossed Closana's long hair forward on either side of her neck, to leave her back entirely bare for the lash.
His voice had the high pitched and metallic quality typical of his race, and he bared his pointed teeth in a not unfriendly grin, "but the torturers of the Lord Lansa will take care of you soon enough.
The torturers themselves had been selected from among the Green Men of Giri, instead of the scaly skinned warrior race of Vaaka.
I feared not, for living men cannot lay hands on a spirit, but all the torturers were appalled at his anger, and stopped their work, for their hands trembled in fear.
Suddenly the Emperor's face began to twitch violently and his under lip quivered faster, and he whimpered with anger, and cried with a shrill voice, in Yannish, to the captain of his torturers that there was a spirit in the room.
And then I followed the Emperor's rapt glance, and I saw the sailor lying on the floor, alive but hideously rent, and the royal torturers were at work all round him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torturers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
