What mean'th this
torture With dull, indented arrows?
Dusk had fallen upon the village, and the ape-men could hear the preparations going forward for the torture and the feast.
The torture of the slow death as the circling warriors cut him to bits with the fiendish skill, that mutilated without bringing unconsciousness, had no terrors for him.
Would you believe it, I was teaching Grisha just now: once this was a joy to me, now it is a torture.
Darling Dolly, I understand, but don't torture yourself.
In her hand was a sharp knife and in her mind the determination to initiate his torture without further delay.
For hours the frenzy of her passion possessed the burning hand-maiden of the Flaming God, until at last sleep overpowered her and she lapsed into unconsciousness beside the man she had sworn to torture and to slay.
He mingles in the narrative, therefore, a well deserved feeling of execration against the tyrant who employed the
torture, which a tone of ridicule towards the patient, as if, after all, it had not been ill bestowed on such an equivocal and amphibious character as a titular abbot.
She was imprisoned by Tal Hajus, and every effort, including the most horrible and shameful
torture, was brought to bear upon her to wring from her lips the name of my father; but she remained steadfast and loyal, dying at last amidst the laughter of Tal Hajus and his chieftains during some awful
torture she was undergoing.
Here, she said to herself had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so, perchance, the
torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had lost: more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.
They could
torture you to death, but without conviction or confession they could not rob your wife and baby.
Ah, Makar Alexievitch, how weary I am--how this insomnia
tortures me
