| 单词 | strappado |
| 例句 | One of his drawings depicts a man undergoing the strappado while functionaries from the Inquisition – paper and quill in hand – question him. Master of gore: the violent, shocking genius of Jusepe de Ribera 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z If the podesta lays hold of you, it means the strappado, and perhaps worse. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster A tooth out, the strappado, or the rack? The Gay Adventure A Romance Nay, rather the strappado for me, at any time, than abandonment to foolishness so crass as this would be. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography After a smart administration of the strappado, he proceeded to examine the contents of his pinafore, which was bundled round him. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. This was a form of torture known as the strappado. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church I have often seen the strappado given; among others, to priests guilty of having said more than one mass per day, a practice considered hurtful to the interest of their fellow-priests. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster No, were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader "I cannot—I dare not," he cried; "it is the place of torture—of the engines—the strappado—the water-drop, the leg-crushers!" Red Axe Zounds, an I were at the strappado or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Besides flogging, the other punishments inflicted upon those who refused to confess the crime of which they were accused were antecedent imprisonment, the rack, the strappado, and the burning coals. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour. The Yeoman Adventurer The strappado was an instrument of torture by which the victim's limbs were wrenched out of joint and broken. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack. Red Axe But no sooner was he delivered from the strappado, than he retracted all that he had before confessed. Lives of the Necromancers Still the use of torture, especially of the rack and the strappado, was not unknown in southern Europe, even before the promulgation of Innocent's bull Ad Extirpanda. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church Those who do the reverse expose themselves to a sound strappado. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 The wheel, the gibbet, the strappado, kept good guard around the place of refuge, and lay in watch incessantly for their prey, like sharks around a vessel. Notre-Dame De Paris The strappado as described by Smollett, however, is a more severe form of torture even than that practised by the Inquisition, and we can only hope that his description of its brutality is highly coloured. Travels through France and Italy Stone, gout, strappado, racks, whatever is Dreadful to sense, are only toys to this— No pleasures, riches, honours, friends can tell How to give ease to this, ’tis like to hell.” Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) The strappado or vertical rack was no less painful. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church Little fear of that, young sir!" answered he, with a grim smile; "I have had too much of the rack already, and the strappado too, to care much what man can do unto me. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth By ill luck there happened to be at least half a dozen callers in the drawing-room; the strappado would have been preferable, in his eyes, to such an ordeal as this. New Grub Street |
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