It shows human ingenuity taxed to the utmost to invent new tortures for the soldier.
They then dispersed in various directions, and neither promises nor tortures could induce those who were afterwards captured, to reveal the position of the mine.
They were happy; and how should they guess the tortures of that desperate woman, whose benighted soul was plunged in a black gulf of horror by reason of their innocent love?
Anguish and despair more terrible than any of the tortures she had felt yet took possession of Mary Marchmont's breast.
She was for ever weighing Edward Arundel against all the tortures she had endured for his sake, and for ever finding him wanting.
The tortures to which a jealous woman may condemn herself are not much greater than those she can inflict upon others.
The self-tortures which Olivia Marchmont inflicted upon herself were so horrible to bear, that she turned, with a mad desire for relief, upon those she had the power to torture.
Whatever melody there might have been in the incessant ragtime and fox trots was lost beneath the bang and clang of drum and cymbals, to which had been added other more ingenious ear tortures in the shape of rattles and whistles.
He had waited for six weeks, going through tortures of Joan-sickness that were agonizing.
All the dreadtortures that had yet been invented and practised on warriors must have seemed to him as nothing compared with this awful device of the pale-face, on whom he now glared with the eyes of implacable hate and ferocity.
During the Roman war they cheerfully underwent the most grievous tortures rather than break any of the principles of their faith.
Millions have owed their deaths to tortures they have received because they differed regarding some trifling passage in Scripture.
Apollonius did not know that his father suffered tortures in his room equal to those from which he wanted to protect him.
He inflicted terrible tortures on St Folia and St Cucufato and St Eulalia at Barcelona, and went like a mad lion through Zaragoza, with the blood of martyrs ever flowing behind him.
Was it necessary to combine German governmental interference, the tortures of the censorship, with the tortures of the French September laws which presupposed freedom of the press?
That night I suffered all the tortures that hell contains.
Were I guilty of the deed of which you accuse me, I would acknowledge it," he exclaimed; "but no tortures the cruelty of Sebastiao Joze can invent have power to make me speak a falsehood.
The cold was frightful, and no wood could be got, and as if this was not enough, food began to give out, and the people inside the city soon learned to know the tortures of hunger.
Punishments and tortures of every kind were practised, to wring labour out of men who were dying through despair.
Many prisoners died under tortures inflicted on them to make them discover concealed treasures, whether they knew of any or not.
But that was nothing compared to the moral tortures they inflicted on their prisoners.
Oppression tortures him," and means bitter hatred of the concrete oppressor.
It is enough to say that he suffered occasional tortures from the development of the brain-disease; though as a rule he enjoyed the painlessness of torpor.
Although the physical tortures of early days are out of fashion, the moral persecution is not less ingeniously spread over the whole life of a Catholic than it was in former times.
Such an one undergoes tortures if another's collection of china is better than his own, or if a rival bids higher than he can afford to do for an old Italian or Flemish picture.
The tortures to which whole families were put were most horrible; the Oprichniks went through the streets with poignards and axes, seeking out their victims, and killing from ten to twenty a day.
I am not ignorant that death and the extremest tortures are preparing for me; but what are these to the shame of an infamous action, or the wounds of a guilty mind?
There was no telling what this savage might do in the delirium of illness--a delirium aggravated tenfold by the tortures of hunger.
Well, drowning would be an easy death compared to the lingering tortures of starvation.
So thou seest the result of thy making out Sabbath too early on Saturday night, thou sendest the poor souls back to their torturesbefore the proper time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tortures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
