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The apparatus of infernal cruelty, the dead man's hand, the semblances of murdered sons and husband, the masque of madmen, the dirge and doleful emblems of the tomb with which she is environed in her prison by the torturers who seek to goad her into lunacy, are insufficient to disturb the tranquillity and tenderness of her nature.
The gas which Bright has in that cylinder is simply one which would produce a little temporary unconsciousness. We might have used it we may still use it but if you others are able to persuade Mr. Orden to restore the packet, our task with him is at an end. We are not his gaolers or perhaps he would say his torturers for pleasure.
It has a round hole at either end; and a thick porcelain tube sticks out from each. It is impossible to conceive the purpose which such instruments as these can serve. The seekers of the philosopher's stone must have had many like them. They are torturers' engines, tearing the metals' secrets from them. The glass things are arranged on shelves.
And naturally, she must be hated by the man reverencing the baroness. If ever man had executioner stamped on his face, it was he! Like the professor, nay, like Alvan himself, he would not see that she was the victim of tyranny: none of her signs would they see. They judged of her by her inanimate frame in the hands of her torturers breaking her on the wheel.
Catlin has with pen and brush described it in a way to chill the blood and fill our sleeping hours with horrid dreams. Suffice to say that Oowikapun put himself in the hands of the torturers, and, first of all, they kept him for four days and nights without allowing him a mouthful of food or drink. Neither did they permit him to have a moment's sleep.
A piteous cry greeted the suggestion. "The White Butterfly will come with us and bind up the wounds," said Daddy. "The squaws are jolly good as torturers," remarked Laddie.
With his quick imagination he already felt the hands of the torturers upon him; and for all the self control which his life in Gheria had induced, he was for some moments so wholly possessed by terror that he could scarcely endure the consciousness of existence.
"His brother Rob went to sleep in the middle of the examination for his commission." "Then I should think he could sleep on the rack," said Cecil. "I'm sure I wish I could," rejoined Jock. "What a sell for the torturers, to get some chloroform!" said John. And so Cecil departed amid laughter, which gave John little idea how serious the talk had been in his absence.
Then I, with the farm hands went to the rescue; we arrived in good time and with God's help we gave them a good thrashing. Immediately after the fight, the girl fell on her knees and begged me to save her. 'If I cannot belong to Zbyszko, she said, 'I will belong to nobody else; only save me from those torturers, I prefer death to them.... I tell you that I made a real castle out of Zgorzelice.
The reign of terror established by Thomas Cromwell became an Inquisition of the blackest and most unbearable sort. Historians, who have no shadow of sympathy with the old religion, are agreed that it was uprooted by means more horrible than have ever, perhaps, been employed in England before or since. It was a government by torturers rendered ubiquitous by spies.
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