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"But thus much is certain; if I be bled, I must pay you a fee, and be burnt and excruciated with a hot iron, who am no felon. "Pay a certain price in money and anguish for a doubtful remedy, that will I never.
He had a particular account of these events, from a fellow-student who resided in the same village, and who, having been present on the melancholy occasion, was able to place it in all its agony of horrors before his excruciated imagination. That sleep should have visited his eyes after such a curfew-note, was impossible.
The Princess Bride must speak French and Italian, perhaps Latin; and the girl, whose literary education had stopped short when she ceased to attend Master Sniggius's school, was made to study her Cicero once more with the almoner, who was now a French priest named De Preaux, while Queen Mary herself heard her read French, and, though always good-natured, was excruciated by her pronunciation.
"Ah, that she did not say." Mrs. Vanderlyn paused now, with a fine sense of the dramatic. "But immediately I looked again for that box and ring and they were gone!" Kreutzer, pale, his forehead damp from perspiration of pure agony, as truly sweat of pain as any ever beaded on the brow of an excruciated prisoner upon the rack, looked at her with pleading eyes. "Gone! Madame, you do not think "
A classic of the first water, a very respectable mathematician, an expert in theology, a student of sundry foreign languages and literature in his lighter moments, an inquirer into sociology, a theoretical musician though his playing of the organ excruciated most people because it was too correct, a really first-class authority upon flint instruments and the best grower of garden vegetables in the county, also of apples such were some of his attainments.
The Listers were still abroad, and Gilbert was very glad that it was so. It would have excruciated him to hear his sister's comments on Marian's conduct, and to perceive the suppressed exultation with which she would most likely have discussed this unhappy termination to an engagement which had been entered on in utter disregard of her counsel. Mr.
The Junior "cricket feast" was an institution in Saint Dominic's, and was an occasion when any one who had nerves to be excruciated or ear-drums to be broken took care to keep out of the way.
He stopped and talked of the preparations at Broadstone, where he had been over the ground with Maurice de Courcy, and had heard the band. 'What did you think of it? said Philip, absently. 'They should keep better time! Really, Philip, there is one fellow with a bugle that ought to be flogged every day of his life! said Guy, making a droll, excruciated face.
I questioned and sank to the depths again. The excruciated patient was having his wet bandages folded across his bruises, and could not bear a motion of the mind. The mind's total apathy was the sign of recovering health. Kind nature put that district to sleep while she operated on the disquieted lower functions.
I questioned and sank to the depths again. The excruciated patient was having his wet bandages folded across his bruises, and could not bear a motion of the mind. The mind's total apathy was the sign of recovering health. Kind nature put that district to sleep while she operated on the disquieted lower functions.
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