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Sentences starting with torture

Torture had been threatened, the fire had been threatened; what was left? [5]
Torture rose from those four immeasurable chords; destruction was afoot upon them; a dreadful dance of death supervened. [11]
Torture serves a thief right. [2]
Torture was not practiced; for, says Harrison, our people despise death, yet abhor to be tormented, being of frank and open minds. [4]

Sentences ending with torture

The few ladies who called during the day out of kindness or curiosity, or both, only added to her torture. [9]
Stafford's face was white, and every nerve in his body seemed suddenly to be wrenched by the hand of torture. [11]
I don't know where I'm going, but I must go; to try to keep still would be torture. [5]
As the days went by and she did not appear, his expectation became a kind of torture. [4]
These visions he was seeing were terribly true, but they somehow gave him no physical torture. [11]
It was impossible to bear such torture. [12]
But what is the history of this instrument of torture? [11]
For her, perhaps, the higher organism, had been reserved the higher torture. [9]
Two voted with the Bishop and insisted upon the torture. [5]
It was like that of an animal in torture. [11]

Short sentences using torture

You shall not torture me. [11]
It would be continual torture. [2]
Don't torture me! [2]

Sentences containing torture two or more times

A new examination began, and now trial followed trial, torture, torture. [10]

More example sentences with the word torture in them

If I tell you that if you ride him you will torture me, I'm sure you'll grant what I ask. [9]
Also Selamlik Pasha would torture before he kills. [11]
Even Louis himself, who had had his moments of torture and suspicion when the appeal was read, was now in a kind of happy reaction. [11]
The torture to which stronger men rarely succumbed seemed to threaten the life of the more delicate ex-schoolmaster. [10]
Do you know what it is to torture one who loves you? [11]
Along the streets were places of torment and torture exceedingly ingenious and disagreeable. [4]
However, even inquests went out of vogue at last, and ceased to torture Tom's conscience. [5]
Ah, and how well they know how to torture us! [10]
And as he watched her, in silence, the colour that flowed and ebbed in her cheeks registered the coming and going of memories; of incidents in her life hidden from him, arousing in the man the torture of jealousy. [9]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
This "very likely" was torture to her, and she was determined to try, at any rate, to settle the doubt. [10]
All night I was in torture, and then this letter of yours--it was a revelation. [11]
Besides, his case was hopeless unless the knight obtained a pardon for him from the Emperor Rudolph, for his persecutors would not cease their pursuit of him, and he could not endure the torture a second time. [10]
Eleven of them voted dead against the torture, and stood their ground in spite of Cauchon's abuse. [5]
Then in strong, unmerciful voice he laid Achmet's crime before them, and told the story of the bridge-opener, who had that day expiated his crime in the desert by the hands of Mahommed--but not with torture, as Mahommed had hoped might be. [11]
They were gnarled, twisted into weird contortions, as if growth were torture, dead at the tops, shrunken, gray, and old. [13]
Perhaps it is true in these days that the old-fashioned torture known as remorse is rarely experienced except under the name of detection. [4]
She had known torture, but it had been swift, obliterating, excruciating. [9]
Perhaps a little torture would do it, he thought; and so he had made the rather tactless remark about the scarcity of dollars. [11]
Zoe's trilling was torture to him, though he had never forbidden her to sing, and she had sung on to her heart's content. [11]
How can you torture me and yourself like that, for a mere fancy? [2]
Associated with this torture is a peculiar Sunday smell and the faint rustling of silk dresses. [9]
You stood the torture and refused to confess; which shows plain enough to even the dullest understanding that you had nothing to confess--" "I, my lord? [5]
Only yesterday I told you, how cruelly he used to torture me after his feasts, when he was drunk or when he recovered from one of his swoons. [10]
They both forbore to torture me with words, for I was suffering greatly; but they fetched me to the Chateau St. Louis, followed by a crowd, who hooted at me. [11]
If you confess to the same perplexities and uncertainties that torture them, they are grateful for your companionship. [6]
It legally belonged to the progress of the investigation, and how many who had by no means recovered from the last exposure to the rack were constantly obliged to enter the torture chamber? [10]
He seemed carefully to seek out her tender spots so as to torture her mentally as harshly as possible. [2]
It was torture to meet him, and the day of the inquest, when Byng had come to his rooms after his interview with Lady Tynemouth and Mr. Mappin, he had been tried beyond endurance. [11]
His thoughts recurred to his unfinished marble, as offering the one mode in which he could find a silent outlet to the feelings and thoughts which it was torture to keep imprisoned in his soul. [6]
Longing for her till it became torture, he swore to himself to make her his, and share his all with her, even to the purple. [10]
She had no thought that Guida had any vital interest in Philip, and ruthlessly, though unconsciously, she began to torture the young wife as few are tortured in this world. [11]
The torture of this thought had kept him awake a long time. [10]
If only the thirst did not torture him, if only the sounds of the battle were less loud in his ears! [11]
I will drive the low fellows together like deer for hunting, for they are all rogues and villains, and I shall know how to torture them until I find the right one. [10]
To spare him the last turn of the wheel of torture, to give him the one bare honour left him yet a little while, I have given up my work of life to comfort him. [11]
That man walked the floor in torture for forty-eight hours, without eating or sleeping, and then blew his brains out. [5]
Presently, however, when the body was spent, the mind began to practise its subtle and intolerable torture, and she was invaded by a sense of loneliness colder than the space between the worlds. [9]
Behind them was the blank failure of a life--fifteen years of miserable torture, of degradation, of a daily descent lower into the pit, of the servitude of shame. [11]
Florette was glad that the work was finished, for restlessness again began to torture her, and the mornings had been so lonely. [10]
He was sure that pain to the wife of Shiel Crozier would be mortal torture to Kitty Tynan. [11]
It seemed natural that both men, ignorant of their own tragedy, believing themselves to be father and son, should feel for each other the torture of distance, a misunderstanding, which only she and one other human being understood. [11]
It is the terrible one to whom I was delivered by hate and the deceived love which is now dragging me by the hair, and will rob and torture me till I despair of life. [10]
In Australia and Tasmania they gave a convict fifty for almost any little offense; and sometimes a brutal officer would add fifty, and then another fifty, and so on, as long as the sufferer could endure the torture and live. [5]
I had always supposed that torture brought out the truth--everybody supposed it; and when Joan came out with those simple common-sense words they seemed to flood the place with light. [5]
He read the story of the son's torture, of his sacrifice; and his decision was instantly made: he would befriend him. [11]
Your conscience, the spirit, tortures you to-day, but you have not had enough torture, you still think to escape easily, to keep the sympathy of a world which despises you. [9]
He beheld a soul in torture, and realized with sudden sharpness how limited was his knowledge of the conditions of existence of his own time. [9]
I wanted to sneeze myself, but it seemed to me that I would rather go unsneezed, or suffer even a bitterer torture, if there is one, than attract attention to myself. [5]
By threats and slight torture, the captives were made to confess the hostile intentions of Powhatan and the other chiefs, which was to steal their weapons and then overpower the colony. [4]
Startled out of sleep by some inner torture, the man heard the sinister rattle he knew so well, and gazed paralysed. [11]
Gardiner had his shoulders and I his legs; in an unfortunate moment I stumbled and the patient fell heavily on the bed in an agony of torture. [5]
To know that she was at Fairview, and not to be able to see her, were torture indeed. [9]
As for Euphrasia, she had no notion of disclosing Hilary's torture to his son. [9]
I wish to see and speak to the doctor, before you torture him. [10]
But I will say this, monsieur, to me you are a man better worth torture than death. [11]
Bless you I saw in a moment what was the matter with us, and says I, out goes your fires!--no more slow torture and certain death for me, sir. [5]
Had he the right to torture her so? [11]
The idea of riding all day long over such ghastly inquisitions of torture is sickening. [5]
Bess was--Herein lay renewed torture for Venters. [13]
But I will release you from this torture, if possible. [10]
He could not reconcile himself to the idea of giving up the torture. [5]
The gout would really have prohibited him from kneeling before the altar, whence the agonized face of the crucified Redeemer, carved in ivory by a great Florentine master, gazed at him, but he took this torture upon himself. [10]
She never caught Ralph; his methods of torture were more intelligent and subtle than Gene's and Russell's, but she was his equal when it came to a question of tongues. [9]
Happily, he is protected by an amount of belief in himself which shields him from many assailants who would torture a more sensitive nature. [6]
Inflicting, we are prone to cruelty, as you have seen a schoolmaster begin punishment with tears, grow angry at the shrinking back under his cane, and give way to a sudden lust of torture. [11]
Through all the profanity, whisky-guzzling, "old sledge" and quarreling, his monotonous song meandered with never a variation in its tiresome sameness, and it seemed to me, at last, that I would be content to die, in order to be rid of the torture. [5]
Then began a process of domestic torture which alienated Noreen from him, and roused in her the worst passions of human nature. [11]
Monsieur Vigo had pointed out to me that day the gloomy, heavy-walled prison in the rear of the Cabildo,--ay, and he had spoken of its instruments of torture. [9]
He was always persecuting the passengers with abstruse propositions framed in language that no man could understand, and they endured the exquisite torture a minute or two and then abandoned the field. [5]
In the dungeon, perhaps by torture, she should be forced to grasp his helping hand. [10]
They have been peopled in earlier years with ghastly spectres of avenging fiends, moving in a sleepless world of devouring flames and smothering exhalations; where nothing lives but the sinner, the fiends, and the reptiles who help to make life an unending torture. [6]
They appear with pain, decay with time, and so long as they last torture those who do not industriously attend to them. [10]
One torture was over, another on. [9]
If he poured out his heart to Isabella and let her share the terrible torture of his soul, perhaps it would awaken a tender sympathy in the woman who still loved him, and who was dearer to him than he could express. [10]
Some gnaw slightly, others torture with sharp fangs, and mine--mine.--Do you want to cast a glance in here? [10]
There is no one on earth whom you would not torture for your selfish ends, no one whom you would not sell without compunction for your pleasure. [9]
Terry was as one in an awful dream battling with vague impersonal powers which slowly strangled his life, yet held him back in torture from the final surrender. [11]
The dreadful day of torture ending in a harsh discord was at end; and behind it she looked back on a few blissful hours full of the promise of new happiness;--beyond these lay a long period of humiliation, the sequel of a terrible disaster. [10]
The sobbing agony of those whom Stafford had led rose up from the ground around him, and voices cried to be put out of pain and torture. [11]
I know enough of the hideous terror which this awful being creates around him; and before I would consent to let it torture me to death by day and by night-morning, noon, and evening--far rather would I die this very day. [10]
As she made none, he took upon himself to settle the whole matter without further torture of his helpless victim. [6]
We suffered torture no pen can describe from the hungry appeals for bucksheesh that gleamed from Arab eyes and poured incessantly from Arab lips. [5]
Her spirit was no longer the vague thing driving here and there with pleasant torture. [11]
And yet he needs must look and look, all his sight aching with this perfection, never overpowering him, but keeping him ever in the relish of his torture. [11]
I don't love my husband, and he doesn't love me, and it has become torture to live together. [9]
Little by little my anger at what I had now become convinced was her weakness cooled, and--though paradoxically I had continued to love her in spite of the torture for which she was responsible, in spite of the resentment I felt, I melted toward her. [9]
As he now moved away from the main entrance, he asked himself why it was such torture to him to witness the humiliation of a being who had done him such a wrong, and whom he thought he hated and scorned so utterly. [10]
There is no more refined torture to a sensitive person than that. [4]
Tom's uneasiness grew more and more intense under the slow torture of these proceedings. [5]
Ah, watch by me, Sandy --stay by me every moment--_don't_ let me go out of my mind again; death is nothing, let it come, but not with those dreams, not with the torture of those hideous dreams--I cannot endure _that_ again.... [5]
But don't torture me with any more arithmetical horrors until you know I am rid of my cold. [5]
You will forgive me because of the torture I have suffered, because of the pain I shall suffer when I think of you in the years to come. [9]
Had this sanguine man, this favorite of fortune, thus speedily quieted the warning voice within, or was he strong enough to cloak his torture with a smile? [10]
He had ever loved to be the centre of a picture, but here was a time when to be in the centre was torture. [11]
According to the long-accepted story of Pocahontas, she did something more than interfere to save from barbarous torture and death a stranger and a captive, who had forfeited his life by shooting those who opposed his invasion. [4]
I should make life a torture for you, Humphrey. [9]
Along the whole length of the sofa on each side of the car ran a row of large single-plate windows, of a blue tint-blue to soften the bitter glare of the sun and protect one's eyes from torture. [5]
He was as kind a man as lived, though he worked the chief engine in a chamber of torture. [6]
It was all joy and torture at once. [11]

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