| 单词 | torture |
| 例句 | Which was vaguely irritating to Humperdinck because, to tell the absolute truth, torture was never all that high on his scale of passions, and he would just as soon have disposed of Westley right then. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners were often kept in barbed-wire compounds, flogged, tortured, starved and hung from trees, and those who died buried secretly in unmarked graves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The compounds were often small, with few guards and not much fencing, but during their brief stays inside, many North Koreans said they routinely witnessed executions and deaths from torture and starvation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Kind of like when we used to play insect torture. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she added, “But even the strongest can be broken by torture.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “School is the worst torture in the world,” she said, leaning her head against my shoulder as the rest of Fountain Middle’s seventh graders slumped toward their desks. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z ‘You don’t understand. If I don’t get him out of prison, they’ll torture him— they’ll sell him or kill him. He’s all I have—he’s the only one left!” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Well, well. Won't Susan and Sandra like to hear about this. Their mother tortures an old lady so much that the girls are in danger of losing all of their cardigans and culottes.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Elsewhere on the continent, bloody wars, the threat of torture and the dampdown of liberties that accompanied the Counter-Reformation were making the choices composers made a matter of life and death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “They're just torture devices invented by men or mothers or something.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z This must have been torture for him, too. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They passed beneath three massive arches, down a torchlit ramp into the vaults beneath the pyramid, past cisterns, dungeons, and torture chambers where slaves had been scourged and skinned and burned with red-hot irons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In fact, he often caught himself silently begging her to revert to her old form of harmless torture. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her shoes killed her. I keep telling them, but they don’t listen. Poorly made shoes will torture your feet, inhibit your progress. Then you will stop.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It felt as if his body had been put into one of those medieval torture racks, stretching his bones and sinews. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I noted his words, for they fed my tortured thoughts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The guy who wrote it was going to be tortured by the king. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the same way that being eternally tortured by demons is more ‘interesting’ than not being eternally tortured by demons.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And I saw worse tortures, too—things I don’t want to describe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nasya Boulos. Everyone loved her. She tortured me for four years. No matter what I did, she made certain I knew I would never be as beautiful or as popular as she was.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “He found Gregorovitch. He had him tied up, he was torturing him.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Swords, axes, machetes, spears, and crude instruments that resembled primitive torture devices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Mum made us go to Sunday school at Saint Gabriel's when we were smaller but it turned every Sunday morning into torture by boredom. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A long run in the Florida sun would be torture, he thought. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of what Draco Malfoy would say if he had to go to the hospital wing was torture. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Bullies stalked and tortured me in the schoolyard. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In spite of an artistic vision so startlingly new it took years for the world to appreciate it, his artwork couldn’t save him from the depths of his tortured mind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Nor could they go on denying the use of torture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet I was teased—tortured by the red of her hair and the set of her chin and the white of her shoulders—teased toward disbelief in the dragon’s truths. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “She means,” said Betsy, “did she tie you up and torture you until you promised to join the Female Labor Reform Association?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “This little tyrant’s torturing us/” 1957 Friday evening, July 26 The capital I have been a disaster diary keeper. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there’s good old torture—standard practice for slaves giving evidence in the Athenian courts.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It's not even that I want to torture him anymore. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He was arrested and tortured on the order of Pope Alexander VI and finally burnt alive in May 1498, on the very same site in Florence where he had lit his infamous Bonfire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But Mrs. Coulter interrupted: “He has gone on elsewhere. Have they started the torture?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was tortured and impaled! That’s kind of a high bar for duress, don’t you think?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z There, as they began to die of beriberi, diphtheria, smallpox, cholera, and torture, Duckworth ministered to them as chaplain even as he worked side by side with them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She was absorbed in the task of tracking down the disappeared, comforting the victims of torture who returned with their backs flayed and their eyes unfocused, and searching for food for the priests’ soup kitchens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, I thought, out of my tortured feelings I could fling a spark into this darkness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “So welcome to the sweet torture of reading An Imperial—” I stopped when I heard violent sobbing on the other end of the line. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z As an adolescent, he was furious with his mother for beating him, for risking escape, for causing his torture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “How dare you torture a maiden like this!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z As a result, the police became more savage: prisoners were routinely beaten and we soon heard reports of electric shock, suffocation, and other forms of torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For all his philosophy, Boethius had still been tortured and killed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at all the great stuff I’m missing. No neat name for me. No dead muskrats. No torturing people on the way home from school. No making mothers scream. No Treatment on my birthday.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “He would still torture everybody if he could.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Over the roar of the wind, I heard a distant bellow, an angry, tortured sound that made my hair stand on end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get why she doesn’t have to wear these spiked torture devices.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Otto had feared his cousin was being tortured or was time frozen. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Obviously—they were tortured out of their minds!” said the clown. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z An inner coldness which shattered his bones and tortured him even in the heat of the sun would not let him sleep for several months, until it became a habit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Scores of innocent people were arrested, prosecuted, jailed, banished, beaten, tortured, and murdered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could not persuade himself that a “beneficent & omnipotent God” would have created parasites and would have cats play with and torture mice. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fve read about how they would torture, starve, and mutilate people’s bodies to something that was not recognizable as a human being. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “The first one was torture. It’s been a long time.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “No. Soft, but rough like a file over the fingertips. It was a sermon, you know. About hell-fire. He described the tortures of...well, you know. I once heard a sermon like that—almost.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z To be beaten and tortured and who knew what else. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If it had been me with my lips stuck on something like this he’d have tortured me for a couple of days before he got help. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It kills you instantly; that way you can’t be tortured and reveal the names of other dissidents. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He knows that prisoners will say anything, admit to anything to make the torture stop. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Pedro Segundo hated him, even though he had never given a name to the tortured feeling that gripped his soul and filled him with confusion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A chorus of moans tortured my ears while a gust of hot, rotten air clawed up my nostrils. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Amari wondered for how much longer the child could be tortured so. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day at school, it seemed like the clock had stopped and the day was stuck in a never-ending torture of math and social studies and gym. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z What is known is the truth about the barbaric practice of lynching has, in many ways, been suppressed and that this form of racial torture and murder left deep scars that remain with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z There were several other girls being tortured in the same way, so it wasn’t as bad as I had feared. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Why are you doing this? If you’re here to glean one of us, just get it over with and stop torturing us!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was hard to connect this torture scene with the priest in the rectory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z "And this wise, sweet creature sent you here to torture me?" she said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z On the third night of torture, overcome by asphyxiation, he went to Aureliano's room to ask him the favor of buying some powders to inhale at a nearby drugstore. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A bigger part of me knows this is my destiny, what thirteen years of torture have prepared me for, like my entire, tense childhood can be unspooled. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “We’ve got water. And soda. And pink lemonade. All three of which are better options than this twisted form of torture you brought to my cousin’s house.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Spurge demanded, “Are they mocking me? Teasing me? Laughing about the torture of my people while they’re dressed in our chopped-up clothes?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “President Snow says he’s sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The women knew well that the T’ang would not kill them; no, they would be taken prisoner, probably to be tortured. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Maybe they’d want to torture him for secrets or something—after all, he lived with one of the Rebel leaders and might know what their plans were or whether they had ammunition stored someplace. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt sick the whole journey to Maer, and Saturday was torture. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It would’ve been a nice place to spend a Saturday morning except for the sulfurous smell and the cries of tortured souls in the distance. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Braced for cobwebs and torture devices, Kendra was relieved to find that the attic was a cheerful playroom. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He screamed the tortured cry of an animal in pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “She died too easily, considering how much torture she put you through. She deserved worse.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We began the lesson with my tortured scales, but he interrupted to put his arm around me, to demonstrate, he said, the proper position of my wrist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A name for whites who rode through the night in the ante bellum South, breaking in doors and beating and otherwise torturing black people. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The reason for inflicting this torture was not only to punish Prometheus, but also to force him to disclose a secret very important to the lord of Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell myself that Metias is not the one whom Thomas is now torturing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She tortured herself with the idea that they might capture him alive, and invoked the spirit of her grandmother to ask her to prevent that from happening. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He nods to a closed door in the corner of the room, one I’d assumed led to a torture chamber. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Perhaps, Cinna's beautiful costumes have even brought on this particular torture for me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Major Danby protested, his bulging eyes straining in their sockets with tortured awe and exasperation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was a little like Switzerland in World War II. Shells were bursting all around me, souls were tortured and I was powerless in the confines of imposed neutrality— hopes were dying. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Pax trained his nose to the humans’ camp, which, as always, tortured him with its rich food scents. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Probably he still had the strength and power to repair his own wounded arms or Kira’s tortured feet. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Your father, like you, was a tortured soul, Amir jan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She and Shin’s brother were the ones who had been complicit in starting a chain of events that resulted in his arrest, torture, and hazing in secondary school. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Presently, tortured by a need to “tell somebody,” he confided in another prisoner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m starting to think working on a team is a form of torture. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z On August 28, 1955, the two men kidnapped Emmett from his bed, drove him to an isolated area, beat and tortured the boy, and shot him in the head. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bending over the whole time would have been torture. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t wait more than need be; you know, I am sure, what torture I am in.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In the summer, the water felt wonderful, but in winter, the icy Benguela currents made wading out into the waves a torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Other opinions suggest it’s an angry spirit. They say it tortures animals, especially cats. That’s the sound the students hear, late at night: tortured cat’s guts. Quite a terrifying sound, I understand.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She dropped down onto her bed, covered her head with a pillow, and let out a low, tortured groan. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z At first I thought it would be torture to sit there in the audience, but somehow it never was. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He swam and walked, and then often spent the rest of the day—and a good portion of the night—playing over all the games of the tournament, torturing himself over the mistakes he’d made. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Under three huge brick arches they went, then down a steep stone ramp into the depths, through the dungeons and torture chambers and past a pair of deep stone cisterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But she was not trying to argue her eldest into staying, even though she knew that if he escaped or died trying she and others in her family would be tortured and probably killed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “What was the point of that, huh? I wasn’t aware that when I chose Dauntless, I was signing up for weeks of torture!” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Or what? You’re going to turn me and my little sister in to the Gestapo and let them torture a confession out of us? Is that what you want?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “This is how he tortured me,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Something would come after her, and haunt and torture her for disturbing their peace. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Basically, it was a small, well-equipped hospital There were no torture chambers or prison cells. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Poor Rachel, how that apple tart must be torturing her conscience! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It made him think of torture racks and red-hot pokers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Since the key was too long and random to memorize, it could not be extracted from them, even under torture. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The present alone was significant, was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s just say, I’d rather spend the remainder of my life in a medieval torture chamber rotating from Head Crusher to Knee Splitter to The Rack than see that look on Dad’s face again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Always taking my side, blaming his negative perceptions on the Capitol’s torture. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Get out! Out of my sight, before I have you tortured and roasted!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The real Iron Maiden was a medieval torture instrument, a sort of boiler which was shaped like a woman on the outside—and lined with spikes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Look at this. You can imagine how they’ve been torturing me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Plots to massacre whites were “uncovered,” and those involved imprisoned without trial and tortured. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Another link led me to an image of a contraption made of springs that looked like a torture device. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Cole’s tortured thoughts slowly gave way to an even worse possibility. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z This prayer, which asks God's forgiveness for having confessed under torture to crimes he did not commit, was based on Psalm 51, Miserere mei, Dens. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He nodded his head once, as if in final acknowledgment of his tortured victory. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z How can I mind when she was almost tortured to death by Snow after the Quarter Quell? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They slaved fourteen hours a day, from six o’clock in the morning until eight or nine o’clock at night, with starvation-level rations, little sleep, beatings and other forms of torture, and daily executions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When he determined that a slave deserved punishment, he experimented with new forms of torture. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I continued to mentally torture myself like that until I finally drifted off to sleep. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’ve watched enough TV to know that cafeterias are rooms of torture and humiliation in both schools and prisons. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And your father, with his bizarre silence—which I still couldn’t understand, no matter how often I thought about it—is torturing your soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I wanted to take the picture from her so she’d stop torturing herself with it, but she wouldn’t have let me if I’d tried. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It wasn’t torture, Shadow thought, just punctuation: I'm the bad cop. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z One member of Parliament told his colleagues of the tortures he had seen in the islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Her clinching argument was that if she were left behind she might be tortured and forced to reveal their hiding place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For no less under compulsion do men tell lies rather than the truth, either enduring rather than telling the truth or easily making false accusations so that the torture may stop sooner. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The cold would be torture enough, but the real nightmare is listening to Cato, moaning, begging, and finally just whimpering as the mutts work away at him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Their refusal brought a torturing rage not only to their fathers, who did the whipping, but to the whole community. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Elias Motsoaledi, despite having been beaten and tortured in prison, never broke down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “President Snow says he’s sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There was the disdain that filled me as I tortured a delicate, blue-pink crawfish that huddled fearfully in the mudsill of a rusty tin can. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When you have a lot of hard classes, one after the other, getting out of school at the end of the day is like getting out of a torture chamber or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Annette, I’m not in the mood to be tortured right now. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Anise has already tortured me enough by reminding me of my stink whenever I get too close, and now when she says this, I’m not sure if it’s because it’s true. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They’d been told that Americans were devils who would kill and torture them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Just think of the rack, the medieval instrument of torture. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had discovered that the more he drank the more he thought about Remedios, but he could bear the torture of his recollections better. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Though he had been tortured by thoughts of Desdemona, he was glad for the darkness of the lifeboat, glad, in particular, that he couldn’t see her face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Thinking that Peeta was in his possession and being tortured for rebel information was bad. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Worse yet, every Englishman who hammered This illustration showing the tools used to punish and torture slaves appeared in Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone she came into contact with could be taken, tortured, killed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Those last few tortured nights before he left her, Chacko would slip out of bed with a torch and look at his sleeping child. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two years ago our neighbor sent a letter with a coded message saying that my uncle was tortured and died in a gulag.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z After eight years of solitary confinement in the dark, and after prolonged torture, he was burnt alive in one of the main squares of Rome, the Campo de’ Fiori, on 17 February 1600. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Watching June and Nora on TV doing appearances without me is torture. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The pattern of the peaceful times felt immensely tranquil compared to the tortured chaos of the others. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face—as beautiful as a blooming flower to him now—was distorted with a new kind of torture, the tissues serenely swollen, her half-closed eyes misty and unseeing with the stultifying languor of desire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Had he been as tortured by it as me? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z All these virgin martyrs are told by Roman judges they have to give up their faith and accept the Roman gods but they say, Nay, and the judges have them tortured and killed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Ivory Christian, filled with so many tortured feelings about the whole thing, didn’t show any emotion one way or another. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She launched into a detailed description of her doggie bath concept, which sounded more like doggie torture, while Audrey and I snacked on cheese. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “You call this a republic? You kill your own people and torture those who used to be your brothers?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I told him that I had no idea why he loved to torture children so much. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Crooks’ face lighted with pleasure in his torture. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only thing I remember is you torturing that kid.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Why do we have to go through this torture every time we want to go out? Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “I always intend to and then she says these little sneaky things, smoke bombs and little barbs, and . . .” “Why don’t you tell her to stop torturing you,” said Marlene. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am still tortured a good deal with neuralgia and toothache,” Olmsted wrote, “and I am tired and have a growing dread of worry & anxiety.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some prisoners were tortured with electric cattle prods as punishment for violations of the prison’s rule. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z No one mentions the ugly tools of torture just yards from the front door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The real man inside of him, not the one tortured by secrets and pain. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z If you ever want to torture me, just force-feed me cilantro. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z We still have 17 minutes left of this torture called lunch. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When he first had the pony he liked to torture himself during the trip by thinking Gabilan would not be in his stall, and worse, would never have been there. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z From what I’d heard, Stalin’s torture in Siberian gulags was brutal. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The chairs began to fill up, and finally, after what felt like several tortured hours, Ethan Hawke walked down the aisle and took a seat in the front at a microphone. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I wondered if her great beauty and massive fortune were enough to protect her from a lifetime of torture? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z By the time we get to math class, fourth period, the day has turned into an exquisite form of torture. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure that the abbot just doesn’t like Bartholomew, and is torturing him intentionally. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then he uncovered her legs: her thighs were also tortured. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “After you helped her torture me? After you let her almost kill me?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Horrible things. The worst kinds of torture. You drowned me slowly. You burned my heart from my chest. You blinded me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic—who forgot the candles, who broke the wineglasses, who lost the ring. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the neighborhood boys who tortured Ali, Assef was by far the most relentless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The truth is the bull is virtually maimed and tortured, hacked and cut and stabbed until it is near death and then ceremoniously stabbed with a sword. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There were stories in the press about the inhuman conditions on the island, about how we were being assaulted and tortured. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For though he could have faced torture he couldn't bear being made ridiculous. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z This second marriage provided Thomas with a new implement of torture for his wife. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I search his eyes for any sign of hurt, any reflection of the agony of torture. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The topiaries that had once been pruned with aspirations toward the baroque finished in a hopeless, tortured state, besieged by snails and disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no B and V for us, no P and F. I always thought someone must have invented certain words to torture us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Tad’s tortured groan made Rashid’s knees go weak, but he kept pulling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Before he was tortured, confined in the underground prison, and exposed to Uncle’s stories about the world beyond the fence, Shin had been uninterested in anything beyond his next meal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Absalom simply tortured out a grin and took the poodle for a walk, after receiving instructions to bring brandy, whisky, wine and gin from the bottle store. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it because of what Brother Leon does to people, like Bailey, the way he tortures them, tries to make fools of them in front of everybody? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A second torture chamber, worse than the KC-135, was the centrifuge. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “As for finding out where the ymbrynes are,” said the clown, “no problem. We’ll catch a wight and torture it out of him. Make him show us on the Map of Days.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I fancied that, should I be discovered, 1 should be caged and tortured like the animals in the experimental chambers, burning compounds applied to my skin, incisions made near my eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Since she had shot Muriel and used Hugo to cripple the imps, there would probably be no protection for Grandma from similar torture. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They started arresting people, and their families, torturing them, and getting more and more names. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Many times a day, he would see other children taking creamy candy bars out of their pockets and munching them greedily, and that, of course, was pure torture. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “I would have thought Lord Asriel’s commanders would know better than to expect truth to come out of torture,” she said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will she force me to torture her people for the rest of my life? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I let the waves of torture wash over me, have their way for a time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Potions lessons were turning into a sort of weekly torture, Snape was so horrible to Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “If I manage to work out what happened to Idunn, and if I were somehow to bring her and her apples back to Asgard safely, could we forget all about the torture and death?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Especially when it’s hot like this. It’s like torture just moving around.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z These are the types of boys back home, maybe a year older than I am, who make it their primary interest in life to torture or, if I’m lucky, murder me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z This has been true about slavery, genocide, torture, and every form of systemic oppression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That evening, I torture myself by reading our Facebook messages, going back to the very beginning. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then he said something gross about what torture does to the necessary organ. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was beyond her grasp, to torture a child like this. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It tortured him at sundown to tear away from the pageant before him, the mesmerizing dance between commerce and desire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Shackleton and the rest of the men on board Endurance were tortured by indecision: they were all patriotic subjects of a country heading into war, and yet they all now burned to voyage south. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I didn't want him to have to endure more beatings or to be tortured. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Then he turned north and descended into the Washington scablands, a tortured landscape shaped by a series of cataclysms between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By the time Michael got to Randall, some torture or punishment had addled his senses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She gives me an awkward smile, as if she somehow knows this is torture for me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Tony thought Mr. Lawrence was trying to torture him. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Under the doors of the castle the piercing blasts tortured the flapping rushes of the floors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He might be one of the tortured voices flowing past right now. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It looked scraggly and freakish, permanently stuck in its twisted, tortured position, and it made me think of how some adults tell you not to make weird faces because your features could freeze. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals. Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The memories swirled, silver white and strange, and without hesitating, with a feeling of reckless abandonment, as though this would assuage his torturing grief, Harry dived. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Howls poured from her mouth as if she were some kind of tortured creature. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Now Lupin’s tortured white face seemed to swim in the air before him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Flashing in defiance one moment, in uncomprehending terror the next, they rolled far back in their sockets, giving a clear and chilling view into the state of his tortured mind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of me, a figure swaddled in a blanket slept soundly in a chair that looked like it had been designed by a torture expert. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Later, when he was older, he would say that he found mathematics easy because of her summer of torturing him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As we stand before the lump of metal that was the gallows, Cressida asks if either of us has ever been tortured. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But nothing, no threat, nor torture, could break Prometheus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And she learned how he tortured his body to make weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer wondered if they had just guessed that he would go to the Orleans or if they had somehow tortured Pima or Sadna for an answer. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If you were being tortured by Martians and the only thing that could save you was telling them my favorite color, you would die on the spot. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about putting an end to this torture and signing the divorce papers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant, it's probably feminine. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Their last defeat was clearly still torturing him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I started to pull him up, inch by tortured inch. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He was confessing everything, even the things he had succeeded in holding back under the torture. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Poets survive in gulags, in detention blocks, in torture chambers. Even in that misery hole there is poets working, Merdegate, no, where in the hell, on the Channel, I always am forgetting...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Where they tortured the people and fed them to the tigers.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Thin and covered with burn scars like me, but his eyes have lost that clouded, tortured look. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Even though the new school year had already started, my parents gave me a couple of days to settle in before sending me off to be tortured. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We’re part of some kind of pilot program that tortures kids by taking away sugar. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are the product of democratic will. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Mercy makes fools of us. I’ve had eleven years of torture to think about all the ways I was made a fool.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I make myself look, like self-inflicted torture, as he takes me in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It had nothing to do with France itself, with wearing hats or writing tortured letters from a sidewalk cafe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She holds out her hands, “My precious, are they torturing you?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You know not, you can scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me;—though it was some time, I confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He’s on his phone and torturing himself by looking through Samantha’s Facebook profile. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It looked like some awful torture table, with these metal stirrups sticking up in mid-air at one end and all sorts of instruments and wires and tubes I couldn't make out properly at the other. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He stared at me, bewildered by my tortured expression. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Their background is like that—they didn’t have a background of torturing little babies. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried not to look at their tortured little bodies as I filled the washing machine, added the soap, and got it started. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I fed a fireplace once with seventeen pages about a man who needed to be mutilated. I described the torture lovingly.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He sounded genuinely interested, not like he was merely torturing a student. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t like to listen to it Why should a good, kind, dear person be tortured like that? It makes me feel ashamed inside, even to hear of it.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the soldiers got tired of torturing us and moved on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was done by the brothers of the tortured prisoners Poppy met all the time, or the cousin of the mayor who lost both legs when the Israelis blew up his car. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Captain Ratcliffe’s end was even worse—he was tortured to death. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But to be hungry and know there was some food, no matter how little, made the knowledge almost a form of torture, a teasing torture. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z That sounded about as much fun as Chinese water torture or getting his teeth extracted. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Fleshlumpeater was writhing about over the ground like some colossal tortured snake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t do anything wrong. So you can torture me all you want, but it won’t do you any good.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z On occasion, Shin and Uncle could hear the screams and moans of a prisoner being tortured. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The thing that had lived in the Horcrux had vanished; torturing Ron had been its final act. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Ralph sent his other wing tip to join the first, and toed one of his slippers besides, imagining his father being tortured. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After a couple of days of Dad’s torture, more than a few of them packed their bags and headed back to Ohio. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “If you mean confessing,” she said, “we shall do that, right enough. Everybody always confesses. You can’t help it. They torture you.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "The Nazis are monsters. How can they get away with torture?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z A prosecutor said that he was now someone “whose mind is at ease because he has relieved his tortured soul of a terrible secret and now seeks repentance and forgiveness.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “And being a kid isn’t so bad. Except when you’re being tortured by an evil billionaire.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z But that’s what people did in Nazi Germany while people were being tortured and murdered, children gassed to death like vermin. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “This ordeal was the most terrible torture,” she said, “as it prevented my sleeping for more than a few minutes at a time.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Also we sing: Leprosy, Night and day you torture me, There goes my eyeball Into my highball . Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I have seen men stand up to attacks and torture without breaking, showing a strength and resiliency that defies the imagination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No sorry needed. It will torture her to know she’s doomed. So what about the black cat phone number? Any progress?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Will she reveal anything willingly? Or will she need to be tortured?” said Lord Roke, watching her directly as he spoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps they have orders to bring me in alive so they can torture me into incriminating every person I ever knew. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I eye the narrow cot, the chair, the cold hearth, the ominous black bureau, the hooks on the wall—for torture, I assumed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But in that tangled-up moment I could feel my friend looking into me, listening to my tortured tune, knowing my thoughts, knowing me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Better that than torture at the mercy of the Black Tips or the Razorgulls. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For one thing, he was not anxious to prolong his own torture, by keeping the Queen under his roof, whom he loved and could not have. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the Nazis, ante bellum whites had known quite a bit about torture—quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “It was a stupid thing to do,” Link goes on in a tortured voice. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z His anger helped to focus his thoughts, but it could not stop the frigid drizzle or the torturing pain that wracked his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The hardships in the mines, the tortured bodies in the square, the hunger on the faces of his family. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “And that, my friend, is why I’m not going to dress differently. Eighth grade boys think they’re so cool. A dance sounds like torture.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Billy, after all, had contemplated torture and hideous wounds at the beginning and the end of nearly every day of his childhood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They tortured her, stretched her on the rack, tore her sides with iron hooks, burned her with blazing torches, and she said, Nay, I will not deny Our Lord. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Annabeth didn’t need her eyes to visualize the river—a black briny current filled with tortured souls being swept deeper and deeper into Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Unferth stood over them, holding the brand, with a tortured look in his eyes as if it were his own hand burning. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I heard a cry, whether of bird or child or my own tortured self I do not know, and the redness cleared. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay as still as possible until the pain subsided from absolute torture to just horrible throbbing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As he saw it, he had been tortured and nearly died, and his father had been crippled, because of their foolish, self-centered scheming. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My mother still tortured herself with what-ifs concerning my father’s death. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In it, Captain Picard gets captured by Cardassians at the end of Part I, and spends most of Part II getting interrogated and tortured. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Do you ever feel guilty about the way cats torture things? Bugs, mice, flies?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You may be certain that I laugh because they fail. O, those people with Miss Havisham, and the tortures they undergo!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z While we waited for her to return, the clown and the snake girl debated the best ways to torture Caul. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If you don’t know the truth, they can’t torture it out of you. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Events were like the details of a tortured dream, happening without cause. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Lili looked tortured as she watched the boy squirming in the grass, obviously terrified of the crickets, lizards, and small snakes that might be there. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His mother’s scheming, he believed, had triggered his torture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A ragged blanket of white covered the tom and tortured earth that stretched from the Wall to the edge of the haunted forest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His body was bruised and broken as if he had endured all the tortures in La Fortaleza he had ever described to me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you doing this just to make me angry? You can make me angry without all this. Now let her alone. All she wants is to retire. It’s like torturing a dumb animal.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She could have resisted any torture but what was happening to her dæmon now. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because I’ve been wanting to tell you something since last weekend, and it’s been torture.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It's great, because I really wanted to torture myself, but I didn't feel like making the effort to Google Reese's cups myself. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Girls moved around in football huddles, the way they always do, wearing lots of makeup and spaghetti-strap tops and brightly colored pants and shoes that looked like torture devices. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z A good handful of cousins still think Ethel moved into that house and started up with Day just to get out all the hate she had for Henrietta by torturing her children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was supposed to remind cubicle workers to stand and stretch every hour, but it sounded like an ergonomic torture device. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z How they torture their captives, behead them, or crack their skulls with axes so as not to waste their precious ammunition. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Speed, he thought, was the secret behind the enigma of why men would torture themselves by placing these raw quivering bivalves on their tongues. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bullfighting is a cruel sport where innocent animals are tormented, tortured, killed, and have their ears cut off. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Lying in the darkness, Harry felt a rush of anger and hate toward the people who had tortured Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I found Abraham at a camp for displaced persons on the mainland. He was a poor, tortured boy, but so strong. I knew at once that he belonged with us.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I put the capelet up to my face and made a long, tortured groaning sound. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Early that evening while Grampa was dozing in his chair and I was flipping through old magazines trying to keep my mind off the trial, torture, death, and R.C. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z In fact, Jesse would look straight here, almost like a Mormon, an irony I was eager to torture him with. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a form of mental torture to be constantly plagued by such quesdons and not have the means to answer them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They continued to caress each other without desire, torturing themselves with pleas and memories. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He too was tortured, but he too remained silent. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It often happened that he had no sooner finished putting someone back together than the same prisoner was taken to be tortured again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been held in the cellar for more than a year, and tortured, Harry knew, on at least one occasion. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “No sorry needed. It will torture her to know she’s doomed. So what about the black cat phone number? Any progress?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I had entered the endless abyss of threading and waxing and lasers—otherwise known as a lifetime of physical and psychological torture. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Not to mention that the shah had a secret police force called SAVAK, which had a reputation for torturing and executing anyone who opposed the monarchy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Ain’t he still homeless? And he told me he was tortured by an east side gang,” Pri says as she collects my small pile of cards into her growing pile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "We're all waiting," said Mr. Grant, enjoying bringing everyone else into my public torture. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I never ruled out the possibility of even senior ANC men breaking down under police torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people—no one will ever be sure how many—were arrested, tortured, and forced to make confessions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She gave up, deciding to end this torture once and for all. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost time to watch Gidget on television, so I was hoping this practicing torture would end soon and I could take my misery to the den. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And right away, I saw the shark, still hanging over the water, like a torture victim. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Hoping to discover who the coconspirators were, Nearchus had Zeno tortured. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As bad as it was, the fear of what might await them was much more frightening—the inquisitors at the Ice Court, torture, and inevitably death. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He told Jo, “My married life so far has been torture.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then why bother to torture me? thought Winston, with a momentary bitterness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When Briony was obliged by her cousin’s fierce stare to raise an eyebrow, she continued, “The twins have been torturing me.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They looked through me and beyond me, cold, expressionless, to some place of pain and torture I could not enter, to some private, inward hell I could not share. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then there are very strange pulsing noises and squealing echoes that sound like a trumpet being tortured to death. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a long, tortured affair with one girl by paying her ten-cent premium each week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Purgatory’s more than just not being tortured,” she argued now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “His father, Frank, was an Auror just like Professor Moody. He and his wife were tortured for information about Voldemort’s whereabouts after he lost his powers, as you heard.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I saw again the instruments of torture before me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z How I hated myself, thwarted, poisoned and tortured myself, made myself old and ugly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But we have been so consumed with saving Peeta, so tortured by having him in the Capitol’s hands, that the elation at having him back blinded us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was going to be constant torture now that he knew what she was like under her clothes—and there wasn't a next time in their near future. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z By the time the evening work was over, the coffee had worked its miracle, and Ellen got up from her bed, white and weak, but released from the pain that had tortured her all day. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z If she could get Brum into an empty corridor far enough from the entrance that the guards couldn’t hear them...Could she torture a hardened drüskelle? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You know,” she said, “maybe I should tell you . . . Something funny back on the bus . . .” Whatever she wanted to say was interrupted by a shrill toot-toot-toot, like the sound of an owl being tortured. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He was evidently torturing his mind about something, so I waited for an instant, and he spoke:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Gertrude’s ladies took pride in their needlework, but to me the thin, sharp steel was an instrument of torture. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Peeta being tortured—drowned, burned, lacerated, shocked, maimed, beaten—as the Capitol tries to get information about the rebellion that he doesn’t know. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He comes to Gettysburg a tortured man, too ill to walk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But the cruel, stinging barbs dug in farther, and their stinging torture spread through his face and jaws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in torture, but he lived and they brought him home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She is the only woman in a jail containing no provisions for women, and this makes her imprisonment simply torture. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Friends who had previously expressed no interest in torture began sending letters composed to resemble Chinese take-out menus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Refusing, he railed at the top of his voice, threatening to inflict upon me every kind of grisly torture if I didn’t try. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead of holding political criminals for life, these camps briefly incarcerated— and occasionally tortured—traders who failed to pay bribes to security officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I just don’t trust him,” Milo brooded in the plane, with a backward nod toward Orr, who was curled up like a tangled rope on the low bushels of chick-peas, trying torturedly to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Was this one last torture, one last joke? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “And are they bothering to give an excuse for torturing Harry’s whereabouts out of people?” asked Hermione, an edge to her voice. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He smiled at us, but the smile wasn’t friendly; more amused, like Oh boy, more people to torture! The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Why is the sight of torture, a glimpse of some flayed bull-jock dying under the bleachers, erotic? Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For a moment there was no sound but that tortured breathing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Pobrecito ending up the way he did, hanging himself by his belt in his cell to keep from giving out the others' names under the tortures Trujillo's henchmen were administering. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Despite Seanie’s tortured expression, I found myself suddenly thinking about the deeper meaning of the last statement Annie had made there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Who starves and tortures and kills us in the arena. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He saw his mother hanged, Park’s body on the fence, and visualized the torture he believed his father was subjected to after his escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Another pain came, torturing me for my lies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Kira shuddered, imagining the torturing pain of the broken arm as the hubby tried to pull it into a healing shape. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since his imprisonment, Noris had moped horribly, as if Nelson were a lost love instead of “the monster” who had tortured her all her childhood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can see how I refuse my pension in order to get rid of the torture of waiting for it until the day I died.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “You were lucky you slept because the sound tears the heart. I could hear babies crying in it. I could hear tortured people screaming, and the cries of their relatives who had to watch.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rigid and absent, naked and trembling with disgust and cold, Alba neither heard nor felt him, but that crack in his eagerness to torture her sounded an alarm in the colonel’s mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a relief when one of the ten or so men on the stage orders us to stand and start singing, because the folding chair is torturing my overworked back. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After each violent attack, I started to fear that maybe it wasn’t food poisoning, but rather that something far more insidious was responsible for the gut-wrenching torture taking place in my body. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The young woman’s free, affectionate, adventurous personality fascinated him, and her appearance of a disguised rat aroused in him a tortured eagerness to protect her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked her, “Ma, what is Chinese torture?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, while Gabriel slept beside him, Jonas lay awake, tortured by hunger, and remembered his life in the community where meals were delivered to each dwelling every day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z When they captured Jerusalem, they were less hospitable: Christian pilgrims entering Jerusalem could expect to be killed, tortured, or sold into slavery. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The Apprentice Administrator, who was almost as old as her dying Master, had been chosen long ago for her aptitude for poisons and torture. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z SCORPIUS: The “Mudblood” death camps, the torture, the burning alive of those that oppose him. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Will they torture me if I don’t talk? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I don’t know why they have to torture rats that are not in their houses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Amid the sounds of tortured wood were the howls and whines of the dogs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “We don’t have souls like humans do. He can torture me until I die, but he won’t get me forever. I’ll just be reincarnated as a flower or something. It’s the best way.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I’ve sat through the torture of the annoying sounds of buzzers, cheerleaders, and rowdy people in the bleachers. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I couldn’t understand why these freshmen were putting themselves through this torture just to be “popular.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We’re not, supposedly, big on torture in the civilized West—though whether we can say that with a straight face is an argument for another day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He was sadly unfitted for hating his best friend or for torturing his wife. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than allow themselves to be taken prisoner and tortured for information, the men were instructed to bite this pill. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Watching it burn is like watching someone being tortured. I can’t look.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What did he imagine was to be gained from this slow and potentially explosive kind of torture, had it, in his mind, some purpose, some goal? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Our people believed that there were demons and ghosts everywhere that tortured the Jew, wracked his body, and terrorized his soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z O’Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy, and in a little while, it was certain, he would send him to his death. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Though their directive was to destroy the Shawnee Nation, they fell on the staunchly neutral towns of the Delaware Nation, torturing and killing women and children. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I tortured him with a long slow moment of consideration, then nodded. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Somewhere they are torturing her, or did torture her, to get those sounds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Dress Mr. Potato Head up in plastic droopy eyes and thin-pursed lips, and you could replicate Mr. Moss’s blank stare in front of the television while his wife was torturing a child. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It is as if he was working out some tortured mind game on the page, or distracting himself from an unbearable sadness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This was no corset but it definitely ranked as a form of torture. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He grew up the way many youngest children grow up, pampered, adored, and inwardly tortured. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She hated that, of course, so she screamed like she was being tortured by enemy spies. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He became the Angel of Death and tortured every twin on the European continent that he could get his hands on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “How can I do that? If you are true, and your offer real, my only feelings to you must be gratitude and devotion—they cannot torture.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Splinters crunched under his feet as he strolled back to resume torturing O’Doyle. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z All this was torture to me—refined, lingering torture. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Going back there right now is a death sentence, Magister Spurge. It would not be heroic. You will be caught, imprisoned, and tortured. So we are going away from the city.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z She was right in refusing to torture herself by being with me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Rumors spread that the soldiers made Pa a prisoner on a faraway mountain and tortured him every day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew nothing of weaponry, torture, psychological warfare, extortion, electronics, supercomputers, explosives. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would like very much to torture a prisoner,” said Roscuro. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z What if the Death Eaters tortured the elf? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I was stunned, as though she were asking me to go through the talent-show torture again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, if this is so, one has no choice but to do all in one’s power to change that fate, and at no matter what risk—eviction, imprisonment, torture, death. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I’ve been torturing myself about the note, about the fact that he lied to me about them meeting up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bella, I couldn’t live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don’t know how it’s tortured me.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Now there were laws on the books, not debates about abolition; there were contracts signed by both parties, not just the rule of guns and torture. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The Hebrew looked at the Irish child with his fierce red-rimmed eyes, small, tortured and fiery. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “He tortured me, you must understand that! The Cruciatus Curse, I—I had no choice but to tell him what I knew, what I guessed!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The first Friday in May he received communion, tortured by curiosity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Prometheus was a Greek god who championed mankind, stealing fire for them from Zeus, being tortured for eternity as his punishment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In Gym, we had a lecture on the rules of badminton, the next torture they had lined up for me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Non-technical proofs are things like documents, witnesses, confessions extracted under torture: they speak for themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was alone with one of the deadliest men in Fjerda, a man who would gladly torture and murder her if he knew what she truly was. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Dumbledore wanted you to use Occlumency! He thought the connection was dangerous—Voldemort can use it, Harry! What good is it to watch him kill and torture, how can it help?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It’s not being anything, ever. You might not be tortured, but you’ll also never be touched.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The path was well maintained and just steep enough to feel like healthful exercise rather than some kind of obsessive torture. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The confession was a formality, though the torture was real. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “But what if there’s like...a torture chamber inside?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I was torturing the fire, giving it life, and snuffing it out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, I was able to release myself from their torture. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Conversely, most animals do not kill before they eat, and the prey is often eaten slowly, miserably, and alive—in great torture and pain. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prison-ers, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Weary told Billy about neat tortures he’d read about or seen in the movies or heard on the radio— about other neat tortures he himself had invented. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching that house burn was the torture Mom claimed it was. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Every day that he can live will be a howling torture. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look after her. If this is hard for you, know it is torture for Luxa.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He knew my brother, but that didn’t stop him from finding ways to torture me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Every trip I make to the store is pure torture now. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Treason Trial, there were no examples of individuals being isolated, beaten, and tortured in order to elicit information. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Yes, we’re both fine — ” “How long will you two torture me!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I shrugged my shoulders and said, “Some boy in my class said Chinese people do Chinese torture.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't know why Photo Drive-Up enjoyed torturing their customers, but they made you take your passport photo out in the open—so that anyone perusing the new-releases aisle could watch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There is nothing in it but information the SIM had already collected after months of tortures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With every step, I felt my heart falling apart, like that torture I heard about on the radio where a man was slowly cut up alive. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z And then I would walk away, because I knew if I saw her, it would be torture. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Someone who was never anxious, never tortured by doubt and indecision, someone who never stood as I did, hopeful, eager, frightened, tearing at bitten nails, uncertain which way to go, what star to follow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t one of the girls who tortured her on purpose, but I had never lifted a finger to help her before, or even spent one minute being nice to her. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “It was someone being tortured!” said Neville, who had gone very white and spilled sausage rolls all over the floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Artists may sometimes be tortured by the burden of their genius, but they can never be truly creative under the thrall of psychosis. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There were rumors that the jailers pulled out his fingernails and tortured him. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z You talk about some pathetic, tortured- looking little faces. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have been tortured before,” he said gravely. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was a way to torture the parents. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z To be caught without the armband meant arrest and most likely torture and death. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Who else in this town could have conjured up such a torture? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all in place but for the witch’s testimony! I say we should torture her again!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I took a breath, bit back a yell, and tortured the gash with the remainder of the alcohol. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His mouth filled with the taste of lemonade, and his face became grotesque, as though he really were being stretched on the torture engine called the rack. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Marge’s arthritis makes scrubbing a torture; another woman has to see a physical therapist for her rotator cuff. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But sibling relationships are often fraught with petty tortures. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Was his difficulty a result of his torture? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “For some reason, cream puff, I’ve been thinking a lot about torture recently.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One May afternoon, I sat near a window at the west end of the queen’s gallery, trying to decipher the tortured wit of his latest letter. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z For an instant he could see black castles in the air; he could create centuries of screaming, eons of torture. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we got to a curve, Mr. Weaver applied the brakes, and the steel wheels of the locomotive and our man-trip squealed like a thousand tortured pigs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The current Blood Shrike has a habit of torturing first and asking questions later. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He couldn’t take any more of this torture. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There were others about Jesse James and how he tortured his robbery victims. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I imagine that they would want you to turn your considerable talents to coercion, torture, and murder,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Even now, having been tortured and imprisoned by Voldemort, the idea of the Dark wizard in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall him as much as it repulsed him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “They found some tortured marines up near the demilitarized zone,” the orderly said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were like torture tools from the Spanish Inquisition.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The routines of prison life following Shin’s interrogation and torture—discounting the screaming that periodically echoed down the prison corridor—were oddly sustaining. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And then I would go back, because not seeing her was torture. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He sounded genuinely interested, not like he was merely torturing a student. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But this physical suffering was nothing compared to the moral torture I was about to endure. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They were three tortured spirits led by three women who drove them with whips. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had opened up to me, had let me into her beautiful, shiny life, into Stef’s tortured one, and now it was my turn. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Shoot, I figure that my fellow tribal members are going to torture me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z But thinking that he’s being tortured specifically to incapacitate me is unendurable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Teams of students appeared to be assigned specific kinds of torture. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At any moment they might begin to torture him, and I was powerless to do anything about it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The light tortured him and Ben turned his head toward the lit-up back wall where he saw the grotesque silhouette of his head. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This is how the torture sessions always began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A house warm and cozy, with smoke coming out the chimney and lights in the windows, and only a hundred feet from my torture camp. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They were black and blue for months and sitting was torture. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In the midst of other grave personal problems, Kepler rushed to Wurttemberg to find his seventy-four-year-old mother chained in a Protestant secular dungeon and threatened, like Galileo in a Catholic dungeon, with torture. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “How long must I continue to torture myself? When will we be certain that I’m clean?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The situation was bad enough without making it worse by torturing himself. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z About how he and his men had abducted and tortured people for twenty years before the church had gone in and put an end to it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Your father, like you, was a tortured soul, Rahim Khan had written. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Instead it tortured him, because he knew he was going to be killed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In his head he drew the shadowy castle with the tortured prince pacing the parapets. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I figured maybe this was how he tortured people. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It had a garish print made up of dying heroes, horrible tortures, and lions eating slaves in the Colosseum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I groaned with the torture of getting to my feet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The torture had let up in the past year, but Alvarez could see the damage on his face. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had terrible scars all over his chest from when the Japanese had tied him to a tree and tortured him by stabbing him with their bayonets. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst part of Leon’s fury was the way he whispered, this terrible tortured hissing from his mouth, giving his words a tone more deadly than a shout or a yell. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The mouth was a tortured smile, a leer. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Why did Arnold single me out for his rubber- band torture? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Quarrels, murders, feuds, forays, vendettas, assassinations, tortures and abominations, all these were in their repertory of human accomplishments; but they did not go to war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For two hours his mind roiled with turbulent thoughts before he fell into a restless, tortured sleep. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z That they had tortured him for hours, then tied his legs to a truck and dragged his lifeless body through the streets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As long as the aunts kept disappearing and the uncles dying after unspeakable tortures, my parents would prolong their Gold Mountain stay. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad would’ve joked that he and Mom had tortured me with their stories one too many times and had inadvertently brainwashed me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Being unhappy about it is one thing, but torturing the kids who are there even though they don’t want to be is another. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He knew there were true dungeons down in the castle cellars—oubliettes and torture chambers and dank pits where huge black rats scrabbled in the darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Sixers could torture and kill me, and no one would ever know. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He told them about his father’s collection of guns and swords and torture instruments and leg irons and so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That cracking sound again and then a scream of tortured wood, and suddenly the air was full of shards and splinters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tales of them tying their victims in potato sacks and throwing them in the river and stories of their torture chambers frequently circulate among the villagers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I writhed in the grip of the fiery torture, the movement making the pain in my leg flare sickeningly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But there’s a lot of bad stuff coming up, torture you’ve already been prepared for, but there’s worse. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Not that he hoped his parents were tortured. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the music raging, his long, tortured wheezes filled the hall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Goodness knows what political and ideological horrors lurk in his mind. He’ll torture you or worse.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Would he just be tortured and humiliated until he was finally killed? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A second agreement in 1986 committed China to sending North Korean defectors back home, where they often face arrest, torture, and months or years of forced labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The first and only inmate to be subjected to this method endured fifty seconds of torture before the power was turned off and he was found to be very much alive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tortured for weeks on end, in vain. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z With an inward agony, with a flaming, outspoken revolt against the ways of Nature, she witnessed the scene torture. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin stretches across the bones of his face like a tortured body on the rack. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Now, I’m here in Mr. Patchett’s class, sweating in my polyester school blazer and waiting for this torture to be over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When the churchbell rang at eleven, I went back to the torture chamber. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes’ life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Not go home and lay those tortured bones in a feather bed? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z After the torture was done, when the albino had finished tending his slashes or burns or breaks, when he was alone in the giant cage, he sent his brain to Buttercup, and there it dwelled. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone says I did. Everyone says that’s why Snow had you tortured. To break me.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I remember a lesson from my psychology class about an experiment in which volunteers were asked to torture people who were in another room by pressing a button that supposedly delivered an electric shock. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The torture will be over soon, but can we forget the simulations? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z His features were twisted like those of a person undergoing severe torture, and his skin had turned the colour of snow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z "We will find Unferth and torture the wretch until he confesses! He's out there in the fen somewhere, drooling over the monster's arm, mad and bad and—" "I was coming to that," Beowulf explained patiently. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It was torture to wait for the cake to cool, but when it did, we devoured it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But I haven’t yet told you about the one awful thing that tortured little Charlie, the lover of chocolate, more than anything else. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z But I thought sewing by hand, especially sewing for “pleasure” was slow torture. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes they cut their hair into such wild patterns that attempting to imitate them, Wood sniffed, "would torture the wits of a curious barber." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Stop it, I’m here. There’s no reason to keep torturing her.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The woman who took care of me gave that chore to her children, who delighted in torturing me by hiding in the closet and making believe they were ghosts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Are you trying to starve me? Are you in cahoots with them? What torture. Crying day and night. I’d trade the rotting baby for this rubbish.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Another scream came from the house, a sound like a starving animal being tortured. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “He thought he was watching Grindelwald hurting you and Ariana....It was torture to him, if you’d seen him then, you wouldn’t say he was free.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I could only stare back at him, at his dark tortured eyes, and his pale drawn face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The second, as you may suspect from its root word, torture, means “painful.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I tortured myself by not eating chocolate for months, hoping that a change in diet would rid my face of pimples. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Leave it to Daddy Cool to torture human kids at school all day long and never have his conscience bother him but to feel sorry for a stupid little grayish brown bird. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was 69 years old, in pain from his chronic arthritis and terrified of torture. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They are known, after all, for their sudden anger, their enthusiastic violence, and their exquisite taste in torture. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z She saw the masses of jeering faces, spitting, hissing, and booing as she was tortured. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There were no such memories, but how could I be sure there weren’t horrible thoughts repressed behind the barriers of my tortured conscience? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z His mother would rush and grab him and, with a foreign curse and a shaken fist at the frosted door, hurry him out of the torture chamber. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The hours are a torture; we do not know what to talk about, so we speak of my mother’s illness. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My instinct was to hold him tight and make the torture go away. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And Gaylyn didn’t know the full story—just how the lies tortured Reggie and left him questioning how he behaved when forced to confront difficult truths. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Go back to the change,” she’d say, as if one round of torture wasn’t enough. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when I’m punished like this, Amá doesn’t even let me go to the library, which I think is the cruelest kind of torture. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z DAD: I’m sorry your friend died, Veer, but you have to find a time to move on and stop torturing yourself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z One was a bronze chair with a bunch of electrical wires attached to it, like some kind of torture device. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Baba is torturing some poor kid who is Elon Musk over there.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “I just can’t. You don’t know what torture it was talking to him about organizing a ball team. We just don't talk, Reuven. Maybe it sounds a little crazy to you. But it’s true.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Manny’s tortured face, his mouth opening wider and wider until it took over the whole world. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z In the reality of the USSR, millions of people were tortured and starved to death in the first years of the Communist Party state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z El Jefe’s gaze is withdrawing further and further into some back room of his mind where he tortures meaning out of the words he hears. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Linotype machine resembled a medieval torture device with its hulking metal form and the wisps of steam curling from the cauldron of molten lead in its core. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When he was away from her, he tortured himself with the thought of other men slipping into her house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The tortured Death Eater lay flat upon the ground, gasping. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure tortures herself with daydreams of feasts laid out on long tables: platters of sliced pork loin, roasted apples, banana flambe, pineapples with whipped cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Does this mean torturing nature to extract an answer? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z See the barbers for monthly haircuts and endure the torture of periodic disinfecting to kill lice, even though you will soon have them again. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The mile was four laps of the track; the 5,0 was more than twelve, what Louie would describe as a “fifteen- minute torture chamber,” well over three times his optimal distance. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Stories of phantoms and tortured souls had always freaked her out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was better that way because then no one, even when put under the most severe torture, would be able to name her as the culprit. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z One did not know what happened inside the Ministry of Love, but it was possible to guess: tortures, drugs, delicate instruments that registered your nervous reactions, gradual wearing-down by sleeplessness and solitude and persistent questioning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He imagined them torturing him until he led them to his forbidden pet. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “They’d torture them to death, trying to find out where I was,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Many Malawians were jailed, tortured, and even tossed into pits of hungry crocodiles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Then the instrument of torture was put once more upon the table and a box of matches was produced. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She deserved the chill, the loneliness, the drunks and the trash, a thousand worse punishments and tortures. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Loving you is the worst thing that has ever happened to me—worse than the Commandant’s whippings, worse than the Trials. It’s torture, Elias.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z On top of this stain there was the torture of knowing that Arthur was kind, simple and upright—of knowing that he was always on the edge of hurting Arthur dreadfully, although he loved him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They tortured people to get information about who was breaking Islamic law. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Jonas braced himself and entered the memory which was torturing The Giver. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z This was going to be a special treat, by invitation only, a torture session of an unusual nature, giving the men the news. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen her torture people who held back on quota, or who fell behind on loans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z My breath becomes short and shallow; images of the Youns torturing and killing their victims flash before my eyes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 She was smiling peacefully, as if at the last moment of her life her illness had wished to spare her its familiar torture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bud Gleason sucked in a tortured gasp, shot up his eyebrows and lowered his eyelids, wrinkled his upper lip and twitched his nose, going “Ah . . . ah . . . aaah . . .” But it didn’t come. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle names five of them: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, and oaths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Schindler dared to rebel against the law of the land, which was to torture and exterminate Jews, not to treat us as fellow human beings. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When I wasn't telling on Samira, I would regularly resort to blackmail, extortion, or torture. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Every confused and tortured soul I knew wanted that clarity. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “They will torture and kill you like they did my parents!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z To torture myself, I logged into my YouTube channel, searched “epileptic seizure in public.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I’d made the mistake of thinking that perhaps we’d grown closer, and were no longer enemies, since she was not torturing me for the past week—but perhaps she had only stopped because of Kalinda. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The watching and waiting were probably even greater torture than the event itself. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z With a barrage of squeals, the guests gathered around him, leaving the black-leather lout with no one to torture. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bacon had himself seen men suspected of treason racked, though torture was not normally used in English legal proceedings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His run was slow and tortured, the duffel bag too heavy for him. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In our world, writers are tortured and killed if they are men. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “This is the wand that tortured Neville’s mum and dad, and who knows how many other people? This is the wand that killed Sirius!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Everybody ran in a sluggish stampede, shooting tortured, horrified glances back, filling 359 the deep, shadowy, rustling woods with their frail gasps and cries. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I will torture you under the sea. Every day the water will heal you, and every day I will bring you closer to death.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The steady ticking of a watch in a quiet room crashed like torture against his unshielded brain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It’s like they are here to torture each other. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He just kept at it, torturing the soft body of the creature, pulling harder, stretching the tender thing as far as it would go. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If he tattled, he knew he would be tortured almost to death by the one he reported. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z More than a quarter of them had been arrested in North Korea, and ten percent said they had been sent to jails, where forced starvation, torture, and executions were commonplace. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My mother used to always joke with him and say, “Willie, God saved you just so you could torture the hell outta the rest of us? That don’t make no sense.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The relief it brought his tortured lungs was pure heaven. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The tortured air had calmed but still shifted back and forth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The next few days are a lesson in slow torture. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Honestly, torture is not an idea I want to think about. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z If I dropped him now, all this torture would have been for nothing, and that seemed worse than having helped him to begin with. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z At about hour six, Spurge leaned over to him and whispered, “How long does this torture go on?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The towns where we preached were stripped bare of young men, with it still being wartime, and this fanned the fires of Nathan’s private torture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Scowling, Snape said, “The Dark Lord does not expect Draco to succeed. This is merely punishment for Lucius’s recent failures. Slow torture for Draco’s parents, while they watch him fail and pay the price.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z These crimes included the torture and murder of twelve million people—six million Jews and six million non-Jews who were deemed enemies of the Reich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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