| 单词 | thumbscrew |
| 例句 | Harry was so pleased to see it he felt he could even endure Filch’s wheezy criticisms of his tardiness and rants about how his timekeeping would improve with the regular application of thumbscrews. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “You don’t need thumbscrews or knives to torture someone if you can perform the Cruciatus Curse. That one was very popular once too. “Right. . . anyone know any others?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Weary’s father once gave Weary’s mother a Spanish thumbscrew in working condition—for a kitchen paperweight. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There are also poems dedicated to thumbscrews, self-deception and sex toys. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z But under torture by thumbscrew, she stuck to her story. Art Review: Artemisia: Her Passion Was Painting Above All Else 2011-11-18T12:30:13Z The Boers are depicted as doughty, honest fellows who “observe the rules of the game,” while the British are “toxic,” duplicitous types who tighten “diplomatic thumbscrews.” Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The episode was about complicity and powerlessness, and about putting the thumbscrews to viewers. "Breaking Bad" recap: Season 4, Episode 1, "Box Cutter" 2011-07-18T13:19:00Z He enjoys his cruelty, gleefully brandishing thumbscrews and ordering henchmen around while selling lines such as, "The centuries that divide me shall be undone!" with dramatic desperation. City of Death: Doctor Who classic episode #10 2013-07-11T13:16:11Z "I don't want thumbscrews or the rack, but there always seems to be something of Johnny Foreigner about the Catholics," he sniffs to one of his kind during an exchange about religion. Hugh Bonneville presides on 'Downton Abbey' finale 2013-02-14T14:56:41Z There are really only two things this game doesn’t simulate: misplacing that last thumbscrew and getting thermal paste on absolutely everything. PC Building Simulator is free on the Epic Games Store 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Near the point, a brass thumbscrew adjusts the pencil lead or ink cartridge; otherwise, the tool is an uninterrupted rod of sandblasted aluminum. The New Status Symbol? Think Ink 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z We don’t flog people in our prison system, or put them in thumbscrews or stretch them on the rack. Op-Ed Columnist: The Archipelago of Pain 2014-03-07T01:36:40Z The rules of the game are rigged against them, they grouse, the locals are corrupt and the government is always turning the thumbscrews on them. Multinationals in China: Guardian warriors and golden eggs 2013-08-22T15:00:08Z Journeying inside the case, accessible on both sides via two thumbscrews, you’ll notice that most of the components are cozy but not cramped. Review: AVADirect Custom Mini Gaming PC - The Best Rig $2000 Can Buy? 2013-02-07T20:28:37Z Apple and Samsung are really turning the thumbscrews on the rest of the market. Nokia to Cut 10,000 Jobs and Close 3 Facilities 2012-06-14T11:23:19Z Thy father's slayer is no mean reaver or cutpurse; yet, though we have him safe by the heels, manacled and leg-ironed, and threaten him with the thumbscrews, never a word can be wrung from him. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z In the Inquisitor’s chamber, the eye of God was ever on the boot and the thumbscrew, on the knife and the pincers, on the furnace and all the other instruments of torture. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z It is part of this uncouth fellow's duty to twist the thumbscrew and turn the rack to wring confessions from the prisoners. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z “Time!” roared Barwell Dawson, and the professor set the thumbscrew of his instrument. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Is it the same Christian religion that founded the Inquisition and invented the thumbscrew? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z They had read of and seen the thumbscrews, the racks, and the dungeons of the Inquisition. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z So they clapped a thumbscrew on Dame Eleanor, to sharpen her wits.' A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z Protestants stand in danger of such tortures, and should arm themselves with the old armory of religious combat—the rack, the thumbscrew, the iron maiden, and the rest—as a matter of sheer protection. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Are metal uprights with a thumbscrew on the top, under each of which a wire terminates. Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches 2011-12-20T03:00:26.380Z Suppose the man before him merely wanted to know where to get at him, to hand him over to the tender mercies of the thumbscrew and the rack? The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z They had read of and seen the thumbscrews, the racks and the dungeons of the inquisition. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z But the sight of the rack and the thumbscrews will alter your tone. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z This must have been a thumbscrew for the Secretary when he presently read the pamphlet that escaped his officers. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z The opposite end is free and rests against the end of a thumbscrew which passes through "E." Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches 2011-12-20T03:00:26.380Z Solitary confinement is a punishment as barbarous and as senseless as the thumbscrew or the rack: more so indeed, for it is better to kill the body than to maim the mind. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z In Great Poland, though it surrendered to them of its own will, they thumbscrew nobles, plunder, make requisitions, seize everything they can. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Meanwhile I must look out a pair of thumbscrews that’s likely to fit you. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z She tried on the Boot till her feet were crushed, and Morton's Maiden hugged her till her ribs cracked, and her fingers were fitted to the thumbscrews till they were all jelly. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z Proper adjustment of the thumbscrew and bar makes the box ready for use. Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches 2011-12-20T03:00:26.380Z There was a lot perhaps to be said for thumbscrews in their day, but that day is admittedly over. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Then he halted abruptly and said, "Now I'm dumb! racks and thumbscrews wouldn't get more out of me." The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z "Certainly a note with your father's acceptance--that would be safe--the old gentleman would certainly redeem that--one could always apply the thumbscrews to one's papa." Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z The iron wire is supported by the thumbscrew and clamp at the left, but passes over a pin at the center, which is actually the upper terminal of the pendulum. Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 2011-01-22T03:00:16.753Z The thumbscrew is to be adjusted so that the free end of "F" will rest against it in a temperature of 70� Fahr. or any lower temperature. Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches 2011-12-20T03:00:26.380Z When the back gage is set, tighten the thumbscrew with the hand. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z I should put the thumbscrews on her, and every time I wanted money I would give a turn or two. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Amusement! in a place that actually smelt of racks, thumbscrews, and scavenger’s daughters; ay! and of the parent scavenger as well. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z But as we have no rack nowadays, only moral thumbscrews, why, we are not forced to speak at all. By Birth a Lady As the temperature rises the free end of the bar moves away from the end of thumbscrew, breaking the circuit and extinguishing the light, which cuts off the source of heat. Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches 2011-12-20T03:00:26.380Z The front flange of this device or gage may be slotted and fastened to the table by a thumbscrew. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z He felt already the thumbscrew of the irrepressible doctor, and feared the inferences he would draw from his admissions. The Progressionists, and Angela. There's a rack and one or two thumbscrews and other articles which belong to the Spanish Inquisition period; as well as rats innumerable. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel "If the grounds do not appear obvious to you, this worthy gentleman will set you on the right track by means of thumbscrews and Spanish boots." Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Then there were eight flat wicks that led up through a perforated sheet of iron from the oil tub, each cropping out overhead by an old-fashioned thumbscrew feed. Where the Pavement Ends I’ll give him the thumbscrew, and—” “Here he is!” cried the girl, joyfully; and with a frisk like a lamb in a May-field she danced to the boy, who hurried in breathlessly. Sir Hilton's Sin Neither the rack, the thumbscrew, nor ice-cold water poured over her could induce her to name as co-witch any but dead women. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) But that thumbscrew has got me guessing, as our American cousins say. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel That fatal Burgundy had got into my brains, while the princely delusion was uppermost; and if I had been submitted to the thumbscrew now, I would have died one of the Orleans family. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Germany employed the serviceable rack, the thumbscrew, the wheel, vats of vitriol, burning oil, drawing and quartering. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Then the white-whiskered fox-master laid the bullets before Albert's uncle, and I felt this would be a trial to his faith far worse than the rack or the thumbscrew in the days of the Armada. The Wouldbegoods Far down in Christian times, the examination of a prisoner was considered to be very properly and justly facilitated by the application of thumbscrews and iron boots. Women of Early Christianity These are not the days of the thumbscrew and the rack, Captain Macdonald, and a man's tongue cannot be made to speak by any other means than a little confinement in a prison cell. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel These plates slip in grooves, and can be let in either at the top or bottom, the latter being then stopped by a batten and thumbscrews. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass They were those lean, nervous sort of hands which you find out at times can grip like thumbscrews. The Recipe for Diamonds As yet not a ray of sunlight comes in through the heart-shaped apertures of the shutters, which are hung on the outside and are fastened on the inside by means of thumbscrews. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature No sound of ringing followed this application to the thumbscrew arrangement on the door, for the colonel had taken the bell away long ago. The Rustler of Wind River But, on the other hand, who invented and who applied such instruments of cruelty as racks, wheels, and thumbscrews? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Instead of finding happiness in the happiness of those whom she loved, it was torture,—the thumbscrew and the rack. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life A thumbscrew stood in the corner, and in the centre was a small writing-table, at which the judge seated himself. Dreamers of the Ghetto He adjusted the pressure discs over his ears by twisting a thumbscrew on his helmet, and the pounding of his ear-drums ceased. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 He was adjusting the thumbscrews, moving the needles along the dials. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 They may be communicative enough over a glass, but next day the rack and thumbscrews wouldn’t extract a syllable from them.” The Tale of Timber Town I suppose they still use the rack and the thumbscrew in this benighted country? The Madcap of the School In a minute or so Sally pelts up the stairs, leaving Ann and the cook to thumbscrew on the shutter-panels of the street door, and make sure that housebreaker-baffling bells are susceptible. Somehow Good These places are strongly built, and well supplied with thumbscrews, gags, cowskins and other whips, oftentimes bloody. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans The door of the port consists of a heavy brass frame with a heavy glass window and it can be closed tightly by means of a rubber gasket and two thumbscrews. Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man The pressure can be adjusted by the thumbscrew on the balance. The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 See that the rubber washer is in position, then replace the cover and fasten it tightly on to the autoclave by means of the thumbscrews. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. But I declare that I had neither art not part in fitting the thumbscrews to the Spanish captain, and putting the boatswain and his mate to the ordeal of flogging and pickling. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Even the ispravnik's room, with its heavy black furniture and sombre draperies, was suggestive of the Inquisition, and I searched instinctively around me for the rack and thumbscrews. From Paris to New York by Land They are relics of the days when the upholders of one religion believed that they saved souls by the stake and the rack and thumbscrew. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Some went into those walls to suffer tortures worse than death—tortures of the thumbscrew and rack, to make them betray the names of their companions. The Children's Book of London "An' now proceed to the next torture—which will you have, sir, rack or thumbscrew?—oh, thank you, Horace, I'll have a glass of boiling oil." The Keepers of the King's Peace We have been on the rack; the thumbscrews bereft us of thumbs, for they crushed them so badly that we were fain to have them off, fearing the arm might mortify. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea A man would rather be tortured with a thumbscrew until he chose to see reason than tortured with a vivisecting knife until the vivisector chose to see reason. Eugenics and Other Evils Ladies, as well as gentlemen, who visited them by appointment were "shadowed" and "spotted"; sometimes followed home and their standing and character in the community carefully determined, preparatory to the application of the financial thumbscrews. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The thumbscrew was a little thing, but caused great agony. The Children's Book of London The rack and the thumbscrew, the boots and the wheel, would, to the delight of all those present, be allowed to do their work upon him for hours. Cousin Henry Persecutions of former times were surpassed, the thumbscrew and the boot were used as mild punishments, the rack dislocated the limbs of those who respected conscience, and the stake consumed their bodies to ashes. A History of Nursery Rhymes Evidence by means of torture,—thumbscrew and suchlike,—we have for many years past abandoned as barbarous, and have acknowledged that it is of its very nature useless in the search after truth. Orley Farm They have no more relations to the civilization of 1918 than an orang-outang, a gorilla, a Judas, a hyena, a thumbscrew, a scalping knife in the hands of a savage. The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon Though they have not to face the thumbscrew and the stake, they discover painfully enough that the offence of the Cross has not ceased. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. And it is because I am in doubt that I have brought him under Mr Cheekey's thumbscrew. Cousin Henry Heavy chains hung on the walls, blocks, tourniquets, thumbscrews, and other implements of torture lay upon the floor, while the corners contained a variety of others which the major could not recognize. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Think of nateral gas for us fellows, and cute little stoves and grates; where you can jest turn it on and off with a thumbscrew. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Not otherwise the Spaniards under Bloody Alva were "supermen" in terms of rack, thumbscrew and instruments of torture. The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon Whips, thumbscrews, and manacles of iron were far less helpful to it than the thraldom of the intellects of its hapless victims. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens He was asked to put himself, by his own act, into the thumbscrew, on the rack, in order that the executioner might twist his limbs and tear out his vitals! Cousin Henry “They tried the thumbscrews on me,” said Spence with a pitiful smile, glancing at his injured members. Hunted and Harried A little device worked by a thumbscrew varied the angle in proportion to the depth. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries But Sir Henry's admonishing finger goes up, and we are hushed to see what is the really cruel thing he intends to show us next, that will hurt just like a thumbscrew. The Masques of Ottawa This is only the first turn of the thumbscrew. The Castle Of The Shadows Two locknuts and a thumbscrew take up all lost motion yet afford perfect adjustability and easy separation for cleansing. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery They were going to put the boot on me at first, but the officer in command ordered them to try the thumbscrews. Hunted and Harried I take off my hat to a telephone which can collect one hundred dollars a year from its user without using thumbscrews. Homeburg Memories He scorned the rack and thumbscrew, declaring they could not reach his soul. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists In vain do we condemn the cruelties of another age—the refinement of torture, the rack and thumbscrew of the Inquisition; for kindred outrages disgrace these borders. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Kurt wiggled it into the backside of his computer and spun down the thumbscrews, hit a button, and then his desktop was up on the wall, ten feet high. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town “Let him taste the thumbscrews,” growled Glendinning savagely, and pointing to Black. Hunted and Harried Ephraim writhed, with attentive eyes upon his mother; he was like an executioner turning an emotional thumbscrew on her. Pembroke A Novel It would be a trifle easier to face the rack and thumbscrew, eh? Mrs. Red Pepper The torture of the boot and the thumbscrews was used there, I am sorry to say; for they had plenty of evidence without it. Oddsfish! This the captains met by torture with the cat and thumbscrews. American Merchant Ships and Sailors That, of course, is why we now eat our enemies, enslave their children, examine witnesses with the thumbscrew, and burn those who do not attend the same church.' Outspoken Essays She would have had a kind smile for Jane and her like if she had been held by thumbscrews. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Not only do they press the prisoners to confess their crimes, but they press them in a thumbscrew! The Roman Question I suppose you know that a thumbscrew was an instrument of torture used in old times to force confessions from criminals. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn They would crush your thumbs in the thumbscrew. Là-bas Monsieur," I said, "send for the boot, the thumbscrew, whatever you please. Helmet of Navarre Not since the night at the Beach, and never in her life before that night, had the merry imps of thought so strung her brain upon a thumbscrew. V. V.'s Eyes And haters are thumbscrews, Scotch boots, and Spanish inquisitions to themselves. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I He tells as that we must “learn to know every man’s thumbscrew.” Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn The carriers of the bearings may be raised and lowered by turning suitable thumbscrews, whereby the distance between the roller and the back fall is increased or decreased. Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Prussia has a whole thriving factory of thumbscrews, a whole humming workshop of wheels and racks, of the newest and neatest pattern, with which to win Europe back to reaction * * * infandum renovare dolorem. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Or probably had Darwin been persistent we would have consigned him to the stocks, burned his book in the public square, and with the aid of logical thumbscrews made him recant. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Loose boards, with cross-pieces, fastened with little thumbscrews—there they were, ready to admit the water at the very first upset. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico Dumouriez is summoned to Paris, quick, shifty, insuppressible; while royalist seigneurs cajole, and, as you turn your legislative thumbscrew, king's veto steps in with magical paralysis. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History It was a day of dungeons, whipping-posts, and thumbscrews, when slight offenders were maimed and bruised and great offenders cut into pieces by sentence of court. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty The pipe that is soldered to the metal support will slide up and down the rod and the thumbscrew can be set to hold it at the desired point. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do But there were no racks or thumbscrews on the island. Spanish Doubloons Torture, Judicial, torture to extort a confession, practised in England till 1588, and in Scotland by thumbscrews and the boot till 1690. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Prussia has a whole thriving factory of thumbscrews, a whole humming workshop of wheels and racks, of the newest and neatest pattern, with which to win back Europe to the Reaction … infandum renovare dolorem. The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian Peasants working for centuries beneath the uncanopied sun, and on the floors without walls, will not let doors and brickwork thumbscrew their souls in confinement thus! Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 The only adjustment necessary is that of leveling, which is accomplished by turning the thumbscrew shown at A, Fig. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do You saw that she would not have shrunk from a regimen of racks and thumbscrews. Spanish Doubloons The racks, pincers, and thumbscrews all ready for work? The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan And if they go to question you with thumbscrews, or the like, answer nothing; let them knock your brains out first.' The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 The day of the rack, the thumbscrew and the stake, is long past: in place of these instruments of religious discipline we have—the Ally. The Calling of Dan Matthews The skate runner is adjusted to the proper height by 1/2-in.. set and thumbscrews. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do And if we move not now, yet it will be known that we have moved; and if Philip come to be King, O, my God! the rope, the rack, the thumbscrew, the stake, the fire. Queen Mary and Harold In the nice regulation of a thumbscrew— in the hundredth part of a single revolution lieth all the difference between stony reticence and a torrent of impulsive unbosoming that the pen can scarcely follow. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan As they retired, Diavolo asked Father Ricardo if he were thinking of thumbscrews. The Heavenly Twins "The thought of his confounded thumbscrews and tourniquets is worse to me than a French howitzer." Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 Under the benign reign of universal love, every court had its chamber of torture, and every priest relied on the thumbscrew and rack. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest So tender and thoughtful wi' pincers, thumbscrew, rack or red-hot iron! The Geste of Duke Jocelyn I want you to understand that where this Bible has been, man has hated his brother—there have been dungeons, racks, thumbscrews, and the sword. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. To apply the thumbscrew, the boot, and the rack to the victim before him was the work of Mr. Chaffanbrass's life. The Three Clerks The old barons of the middle ages used, in general, the thumbscrew to extort property; we moderns use, in preference, hunger or domestic affliction: but the fact of extortion remains precisely the same. The Two Paths But I want to say, the thumbscrew having got out of the way, I am going to have my say. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest I hang, burn and torture the best that I may, Ho pincers and thumbscrews and rack—oho! The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Formerly this shortness of face was artificially obtained by the use of the "jack," an atrocious form of torture, by which an iron instrument was used to force back the face by means of thumbscrews. Dogs and All about Them The abstract martyrdom of unpopularity is therefore clear gain to them; but when it comes to the rack and the thumbscrew, the revolver and the bowie-knife, the same habitual egotism makes them cowards. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 A couple of turns with the thumbscrew will suffice to get out of a boy of that age everything he knows. By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic Religious opinions as such might be penalised by fines, imprisonment, the boot or the thumbscrew, the imposition of disabilities; still the ultimate penalty had to be associated at least with the idea of treason. England under the Tudors To your own men of science, fifty turns Of the thumbscrew would not prove that earth revolved. Watchers of the Sky And if he had, do you think that love, truth, compassion, service, sympathy, tenderness, would feel it necessary to go after him with stocks, chains, thumbscrews and torches? Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers They included the application of fire to various parts of the body, the distension of the stomach and lungs by water poured into mouth, thumbscrews, the rack, the boot. The Eve of the French Revolution It would, if it could, grasp the thumbscrew and the rack of mediaeval Inquisitors, and would, in the last resource, hand over all opponents to the scaffold or the stake. God and my Neighbour But there are no Inquisitions, with thumbscrews and racks, any longer. From Jest to Earnest Now the thumbscrew and the rack as instruments for the discomfiture of heretics are relegated to the dusty cases of museums. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch I often sigh for the good old days of the Inquisition; but it's still possible, in the blessed seclusion of the family circle, to apply the rack and the thumbscrew in a modified form. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box I enter this exquisite Torture Chamber, and I shriek at the first twinge of the thumbscrew and faint at the preliminary embraces of the scavenger's daughter. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The thumbscrew and the rack could not wring from Mr. Hughes the admission that we are after anything more lofty than our interests. The Mirrors of Washington "Now for the rack, the cord, and the thumbscrews," I murmured to her, making way. The Firefly of France You may have heard of the rack and the wheel and the thumbscrew at home. The Sea-Hawk Whereon the bloated tyrant sent his praetorians, and enforced payment by scourge and thumbscrew? Froude's History of England The general notion was that he was a knave and a coward, and that the first sight of the boots and thumbscrews would bring out all the guilty secrets with which he had been entrusted. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 He had been entrusted some years before by Fagel with important secrets, and had resolutely kept them in spite of the most horrible torments which could be inflicted by boot and thumbscrew. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict's garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on. Anarchism and Other Essays Here, again, there was a feeble show of resistance, but the thumbscrews were instantly applied, and Ernest, demoralised as he already was, recanted and submitted himself to the powers that were. The Way of All Flesh In a small room near the "office" are to be seen any number of iron collars, hobbles, handcuffs, thumbscrews, cowhides, whips, chains, gags, and yokes. Clotel; or, the President's Daughter We are constantly being told that theologians used racks and thumbscrews, and so they did. A Miscellany of Men He had brought into use a little steel thumbscrew which gave such exquisite torment that it had wrung confessions even out of men on whom His Majesty's favourite boot had been tried in vain. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the American people. Anarchism and Other Essays I, for instance, disbelieve in oligarchy; so I would no more mend the House of Lords than I would mend a thumbscrew. What's Wrong with the World I have come now to show you a way to put the thumbscrews on the old maid and make her spin like a teetotum. The Lesser Bourgeoisie Theologians used racks and thumbscrews just as they used thimbles and three-legged stools, because everybody else used them. A Miscellany of Men The age of thumbscrews and the rack was, after all, a very virile age. The Illustrious Prince They were examined there by masked magistrates who wrung the truth from them by the "bootikins," which squeezed the feet, or by the thumbscrews, which twisted the thumbs. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger Does she remember the thumbscrew of former generations? Penelope's Experiences in Scotland And this, a few hundred years earlier, would have been the natural and effective moment for the thumbscrews. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland I am only wondering if, in the extracting of testimony from the common mind, the thumbscrew might not have been more necessary with some nations than with others. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland |
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