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Updated: September 8, 2025
And, one likes to think, there is no other punishment in the next world so severe as that meted out to the torturers of little children. For this hope's basis there is the solemn warning voiced by the All-pitying Friend of children; a threat which, apparently, was unfamiliar to Ruloff. Down upon the weepingly prostrate Sonya bore the man.
II. Letter of the three agents. "The Cherokees are now exceedingly well disposed. Mr. The latter unceasingly incited the Indians to ravage the frontier with torch and scalping knife. They deliberately made the deeds of the torturers and women-killers their own, and this they did with the approbation of the British Government, and to its merited and lasting shame.
Somehow they had got him upon the horse of Jack Bates, but they had felt like torturers while they did it, and the perspiration on their faces was not all caused by heat. "My God, I'd rather be hung than go through this again," muttered Cal, white under the tan. "I'll tackle it now," gasped Andy, with a pitiful attempt to sit straight in the saddle. "Get on boys "
I would have been glad and thankful and grateful " "Yes," said Miss Amory, "life got worse and worse they all treated you as if you were a dog. Those common virtuous people are like the torturers of the Inquisition. You were hungry and cold cold and hungry " "You don't know what it's like," Susan moaned. "You don't know.
Had I been less compassionate, I should have gained credit with that respectable corps, the torturers of butterflies; and might, perhaps, have enriched their cabinets with some unknown captives. However, I left them imbibing the dews of heaven, in free possession of their native rights; and having changed horses at Tremolano, entered at length my long-desired Italy.
Something heavy and lumbering rolled down the stairs. It was the artist falling headlong. Evidently he had been pushed downstairs. He picked himself up from the ground, shook his hat, and, with an angry and indignant face, brandished his fist towards the top of the stairs and shouted: "Scoundrels! Torturers! Bloodsuckers! I won't allow you to hit them! To hit a weak, drunken woman!
She must go bounding on, racked, broken, but alive in every fibre. The most she could hope was a few hours' respite, not from her own terrors, but from the pressure of outward claims: the midday halt, during which the victim is unbound while his torturers rest from their efforts.
Scientific cruelty may do its worst with intricate armaments; but the blood-thirst of the Indian assumed the ghastly earnest of victors drinking the warm life-blood of dying enemies and of torturers laving hands in a stream yet hot from pulsing hearts.
Of this another sense furnished quick evidence, for even above the jeers of the torturers and the shrieks of the tortured sounded the clatter of hoofs.
Powder was shot into his body, and burning fagots shoved against him, while red embers were strewn beneath his feet. For two hours he bore his torments with manly fortitude, speaking low, and beseeching the Almighty to have mercy on his soul. Then he fell down, and his torturers scalped him, and threw burning coals on his bare skull.
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