Tortures

Examples

• There were tortures and executions, as well as a great crowding of the gaols with Christian presbyters and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To whom could the poor little martyr tell these daily struggles and tortures? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You have no idea of the tortures I should suffer, Mr. Hartright, if Louis dropped that portfolio. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It may perish with the dawn of eternity, but it tortures through time into its deepest night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Take my life if thou wilt, and say, the Jew, amidst his tortures, knew how to disappoint the Christian. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was all over wives and angels, and eternal constancy, and eternal despair; with miseries and tortures without end. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A man cannot think of excessive pains and tortures without trembling, if he be in the least danger of suffering them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Yes, it tortures through time, agreed Caroline, except when it is mutual love. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You know the cruel tortures and the awful death her love won for her at the hands of the beast, Tal Hajus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• O, those people with Miss Havisham, and the tortures they undergo! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I reminded them of my tortures in Genoa, Milan, Como; of my declaration that I would suffer no more on Italian soil. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What do any of you care for the agonies and tortures of a poor forsaken woman? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to Heaven at all! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Therefore you are forced to remain on earth, and condemned yourself to supply the tortures from which you suffer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Of parricides and other murderers he had tortures still more terrible to narrate. Plato. The Republic.

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