Tortured

Examples

• Don't you feel it, don't you feel you CAN'T be tortured into any more knowledge? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I was tortured and tried to get away, and was captured and tortured again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Presently Philotas was accused of conspiracy, and, upon very insufficient evidence, tortured and executed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You do not mean that they had tortured him? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• To avoid being tortured? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had all his life been tortured by a furious and destructive demon, which possessed him sometimes like an insanity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mother, how you have tortured me! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair, and yet be tortured by hope. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And the woman, with her serious, conscience-harrowing question tortured him on the quick. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Gudrun was tortured for something to say, to relieve the suspense. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You look as if the enemy had tortured, before he murdered you. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I did not like to touch that small, tortured limb, but thinking there was no alternativemy hand was already extended to do what was requisite. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But she was tortured with fear, with misgiving. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And all the while the pensive, tortured woman piled up her own defences of aesthetic knowledge, and culture, and world-visions, and disinterestedness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She tortured the open heart of him even as he turned to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Christ knew how to preach to these simple, superstitious, disease-tortured creatures: He healed the sick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am not easy, not tranquil; I am tantalized, sometimes tortured. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How the vermin-tortured vagabonds did swarm! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And she was tortured herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He wanted so much to be free, not under the compulsion of any need for unification, or tortured by unsatisfied desire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Also he had a great fear of being tortured. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Rightly understood, the idea behind the words contains all that is valuable in conservatism, and, for the first time, gives a reputable meaning to that tortured epithet constructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As for Mr. Franklin and Miss Rachel, they tortured nothing, I am glad to say. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Bulstrode was indeed more tortured than the coarse fibre of Raffles could enable him to imagine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Moore, though tortured with suspense, did not demand a quick explanation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And yet her soul was tortured, exposed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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