| 单词 | self-torture |
| 例句 | A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And when it comes to the internet: seek self-torture, and ye shall find. My week as Bette Davis: 'My fierce brows are begging to be raised' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z When dissatisfied with himself, he beats his legs with a wooden stick and practices other forms of self-torture. Review: In ‘The Accountant,’ a Savant With Daddy Issues Has a Dark Secret 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The nudity too, his showing himself, is self-torture. “You have naked bodies and genitalia, don’t you? Why are you so adolescent?”: Director Peter Greenaway on “Puritan” Americans and the intense sex scenes in “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Her nature is incredibly practical; there’s nothing practical about self-doubt and self-loathing and self-torture. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z For the rest of the movie, he will mope and mutter and rage, his self-torture culminating in an urgent, kitchen-counter rendezvous that leaves poor Max — and the audience — more confused than ever. ‘Matthias & Maxime’ Review: Unsealed With a Kiss 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z If he’s not, he won’t be able to perform the unending ritual of self-torture he has devised, which is all he lives for now. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z He did not appear to be one of those actors given to second-guessing or self-torture after a night onstage. A Night in the Broadway Life of Russell Tovey and His Bulldog 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z "This is not a holiday, this is self-torture. It is very tough," he said. Former soldier raises war awareness by touring Taiwan on foot 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Yearning, possessiveness, jealousy, deception, self-torture, the impossibility of truly knowing another person — these turn out to be the unhappy and recurrent elements of Proustian love. Review | If you can’t handle 1.5 million words of Proust, try ‘Swann in Love’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Scouring someone’s recovery for meaningful information is basically self-torture. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Friend demands ‘happy’ topics, then breaks her own rule 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z First-year North Carolina coach Hubert Davis disclosed that for years he engaged in a form of self-torture. Yes, UNC-Duke was epic. No, it wasn’t the final scene of this movie. 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Playing the game back in the mind — particularly for the defense — amounts to self-torture. Perspective | Washington doesn’t just lack a dominant defense. It lacks an identity. 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z For this closing ritual, self-torture is taken to the next level. Extreme piercing: A festival of self-inflicted pain 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z These interests set him apart at school, and he would later define this period of his life as a “desperate quest, filled with effort, judgment, self-torture and constant striving”. My journey into the dark, hypnotic world of a millennial guru 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The very reason some people hate her – that she encourages a body ideal that requires self-torture for most people to attain – is perpetuated by men like West. Your heart can only bleed for Kanye – his wife is too sexy, apparently 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z This was self-torture, purposely sought after and paid for by me. Review | Turn down the heat: I’m done with super-spicy foods 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z We think people in positions of power are somehow above everyone else and free from the self-torture and negative self-talk, but they’re not any different than we are. The rock star whisperer: how one woman helps A-list musicians survive 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Is doing a one-woman show actually a form of self-torture? Close Up with Jackie Hoffman on cleaning houses, getting high and kvetching for her one-woman show 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Actually, it was a form of self-torture, a goad. Perspective | Rickie Fowler still hasn’t won a major, but he learns from every loss 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Prerequisites: Capacity for self-torture, pasta, some psychological problem you’re metaphorically running away from. What kind of race should you run? - Golf Digest 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Worshipping the Cubs is not so much a family tradition as a pagan form of self-torture. If you laugh enough, things turn out OK. Just ask a Cubs fan. 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z There’s no more elegant example of the cyclical self-torture of procrastination than the lyrics to a song from the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The Science Behind Procrastination 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Exercise doesn't have to be marathon of self-torture. 7 minutes in hell: one brutal workout with the Microsoft Band and Basis Peak 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Other than a few hardy super-commuters, most people will move, change jobs or begin loudly agitating for political change rather than keep up with the self-torture. Hey, we’re world class! For truly terrible traffic 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a straightforward proposition that belies the brutality and self-torture required to achieve it. Cycling’s Greatest Hour 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z "It's a big challenge - it's some kind of self-torture, but I really enjoyed it," she adds. Olympiad festival to 'open doors for disabled artists' 2012-08-23T07:04:55Z In general the Eastern monks were prone to extremes in the way of penance and self-torture which the more practical peoples of the West were not greatly disposed to imitate. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z I once believed exercise is necessarily just prolonged self-torture. 7 minutes in hell: one brutal workout with the Microsoft Band and Basis Peak 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Once or twice he went to the Beak and indulged in a feast of self-torture, but otherwise he worked literally day and night, seeing people, deliberating, scheming. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z They are also a very devotional people, having many rites and ceremonies for propitiating the Great Spirit, practising upon themselves a self-torture but little less severe than that of Hindoo devotees. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians 2012-03-11T03:00:11.673Z By a malicious caprice of fate cage and menagerie were put down right under the Dutchman's organ of self-torture. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z It would have been useless for him to have gone to the temple without having planned what new form of self-torture he must add to his present life, in his search for peace. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z For, somehow or other--probably on the principle that life not being hard enough, we must practise self-torture--my lady had quite made up her mind as to Norah's parentage. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z They no longer believe in the virtue of fasting and self-torture. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z He chose the former, and with it years of self-torture, sacrificial pangs, and the loss forever of a happy home.* Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z What is the use of this self-torture, my friend? He Who Gets Slapped A Play in Four Acts 2011-11-11T03:00:27.467Z It all looked so peaceful and smiling to-day, one could hardly realize the long hours of doubt and self-torture passed in these solitary cells. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z He could not play during all this self-torture; Kallem had almost to threaten him before he could succeed in hearing any of his own little pieces. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z He loved this present situation, the acute tension of this palpitating moment, when he seemed to hold this beautiful woman's soul, bare and fettered, writhing with agony and self-torture. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z And as if in anticipation of what was in store for the Christian Iroquois, her short life at the Sault became, as we shall see, a holocaust of prayer and self-torture. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z Part of the initiatory festival during which, by virtue of undergoing various forms of ghastly self-torture, the growing-up boys are admitted among the ranks of the warriors. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z The self-torture he suffered in those weary minutes was exquisite. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The Kiowa never suspended their dancers, as in the self-torture dance of other tribes, neither in the sun dance, nor when an individual sought a vision while fasting alone in the mountains. Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance 2011-05-30T02:00:17.057Z He recounted the short and simple story twice, with even greater self-torture the second time than the first. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z She was no longer the childish creature who unlocked the door that eventful morning for Norman Lovel; pride, resentment, a haughty power of self-torture, had rendered her womanly like the rest. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z And she hinted at those weary moods of perpetual self-torture and endless scruple, which hindered all vigorous effort and clouded her youth. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Many who adopted this unnatural view of human existence retired to the solitude of the desert, and there spent their time in practices of stern self-denial and in acts of frenzied self-torture. The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History 2011-03-09T03:00:46.980Z The remedy for this form of social self-torture lies in the denial of parenthood to those who have transmissible defects. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z It was the meat-eating Indian who made war a vocation and self-torture a dissipation. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z And in his dejection he felt quite sure that he was afraid of nothing; that he was profoundly indifferent, full of an intolerable weariness of self-torture. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z We may therefore expect in primitive asceticism to find many abstentions and much self-torture apparently valueless for the training of character and discipline of the feelings, which are the essence of any healthy asceticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" A smile of self-torture hovered about her lips. The Undying Past Touching are the accounts delivered to us of the strivings of individuals, of the anguish and self-torture which fruitlessly ground down body and soul. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. The failure of this volume only helped to plunge him into deeper depths of self-torture. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 At the funerals of the kings especially the mourners indulged in frantic excesses of self-torture and mutilation. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Do not think, brother," replied the Clerical Collar, "that by doing penance with self-torture, you can avoid the stake. The Book of Gud She fostered her shame with the New Englander's zest for self-torture. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play If he could not get the conventional thrill from the confession of past affairs and failings, he would achieve the ecstasy of self-torture by laying bare a loftier mistake. Years of Plenty He can, in fact, extort favours from the unwilling gods if he only carry his self-torture and privations to the requisite extreme. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches I did not dare to ask myself what object she could have in subjecting herself to such a process of self-torture--for self-torture such a feigned condition of exaltation must certainly be. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. If getting up in the world requires self-torture, self-immolation such as this, wouldn’t it be better, think you, not to get up? Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 With such fancies, reason and creeds which embody reason have nothing to do except to give shape to the instruments of self-torture. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Women figured very prominently among the Convulsionnaires, particularly when the epidemic passed from convulsive dancing to prophecy, and thence to various forms of self-torture. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development In spite of her years of self-torture and revengeful thoughts, Miss Havisham had still a spark of real pity. Tales from Dickens The metal glowed, and the man was writhing in silent self-torture when at last he threw his weight upon the strands and fell backward to the floor. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Caroline said all this with a feeling of self-torture that took all the color from her face. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals He was neither morbid nor addicted to self-torture. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 In various guises, this is the most persistent form of religious self-torture. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development This is only one of many methods of self-torture practised in the hope of winning the favor of the gods. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Surely there was a greater wisdom than mere contempt of wealth and comfort, surely a greater happiness than could be found in self-torture and hysteria. The Soul of a People Even for the nameless gift she found a reason, with a woman's skill, in self-torture. Moods By such teaching they have driven man, as by a trumpet, to prayer, fasting, self-torture, pilgrimages and similar performances. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Between the drug of the savage, the fasting and self-torture of the medieval monk and the prayerful meditation of the modern mystic, the difference is only that of changed times and altered conditions. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Satiety exhausted them without extinguishing them; and, overpassing the widest limits of excess, they excited themselves to self-torture. Germinie Lacerteux There are many methods of self-torture, but perhaps few more ingenious and protracted than submitting the result of one's brain-work to a person whose good opinion we covet, and watching the effect. The Giant's Robe This openness on his wife's part was at once Jacques' consolation and opportunity for endless self-torture. Studies in love and in terror I do not desire that you should imitate the senseless practices prevailing in some countries, where the people are allowed to build their hopes of Salvation upon penance and self-torture. Standards of Life and Service And when this plan is not adopted—although very often the two things run side by side—we find fasting and other forms of self-torture practised because of the abnormal conditions produced. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development After that disappointment—and it was a grievous disappointment, however self-inflicted—especially grievous to such an expert in self-torture—her nature grew rapidly and steadily more self-absorbed and unlovely. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls And yet he went everywhere that there was a possibility of meeting her, with a restless impulse of self-torture, while his hate grew more intense day by day. The Giant's Robe Religion injures individuals by prescribing useless and painful practices: fasting, celibacy, voluntary self-torture, and so forth. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill That night, with a kind of savage love for self-torture, Bob made his way to the Public Hall. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War The lives of its votaries provided examples of almost every conceivable kind of self-torture or semi-maniacal behaviour. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development They practice self-torture, crime, and uncleanliness, and use loathsome food, etc. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Clever at self-torture, he continued to harass his soul, always on the same line. En Route That is why they enjoy it—the scourging of the flesh, the self-denial—the body enjoys this form of self-torture for the object of its adoration. There was a King in Egypt Finally, being a Catholic, and therefore attaching more value to self-torture than we do, the poor soul made this very grove her place of penance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Many who adopted this unnatural view of human existence retired to the solitude of the desert, and there spent their time in practises of stern self-denial and in acts of frenzied self-torture. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern There are also a great many primitive customs for coercing or conciliating superior powers,—either men or spirits,—which consist in renunciation, self-torture, obscenity, bloodshedding, filthiness, and the performance of repugnant acts or even suicide. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The tortures of the classic Hades, and the disgusting inflictions courted by the anchorites of old, and the Brahmins of later times, do not approach the horrors of such an act of self-torture. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Knox, indeed, like the other Reformers, had parted for ever with the mediæval idea of salvation by self-torture—even by self-torture for sin. John Knox Half of the misery, half of the quarrels, half of the self-torture, half of the disrupted homes, in short, half of the tyrannical reign of the demon of jealousy, would be gone. Woman Her Sex and Love Life Most people are supposed to go easily and pleasantly to the devil, but these elected to do so by way of a charnel-house asceticism, and an elaborate system of self-torture. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer In general, the methods of attaining to holiness and saintliness must be arbitrary and ascetic,—fasting, self-torture, loathsome acts, excessive ritual, etc. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Indian self-torture is to prove one's endurance of pain. Ranching, Sport and Travel He had come out to-day to be recklessly happy, and here he was giving himself up to gloom, to absurd self-torture. The Call of the Blood The fourth was absolute renunciation of the world, self-contemplation and self-torture; by which Perfection was thought to be attained, and the soul merged in the Deity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry She was suffering from the most puzzling of emotions—the mingled pain and pleasure of self-torture. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' You are voluntarily undergoing a system of self-torture which is quite unnecessary. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches She would have known remorseless waitings and the long agony of jealous nights—all the passionate self-torture that she had missed—that she had missed, thank God! The Voice of the People She shrank from all mention of the subject with her step-mother, knowing how one-sided a partisan she would be, but could not deny herself the self-torture of questioning Lola again. Bluebell A Novel Sleeny walked moodily down the street, engaged in that self-torture which is the chief recreation of unhappy lovers. The Bread-winners A Social Study The temper of the class respecting scholastic deportment leaned towards rigidity bordering on self-torture. Judith of the Plains He first says that those who wish to lead a religious life should avoid the two extremes of self-indulgence and self-torture and follow a middle way. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The misery possessing me was of that passionate kind which embraces self-torture. Tell England A Study in a Generation He is a mild divinity, and not like the fierce Siva, who loves self-torture. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Here, having found that concentration of mind, Yoga-discipline, availed nothing, he undertook another method of asceticism, self-torture. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow With fervid desire to find the incomprehensible God, he searched all his thoughts and dreams with self-torture. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 In India, where the proclivity to asceticism and self-torture is endemic, it was only natural that penance should in very truth seem easier and more satisfactory than this spiritual discipline. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The first time she had ever seen him, Susie wondered at the possibility of self-torture which was in that rough-hewn countenance; but she had never dreamed that it could express such unutterable suffering. The Magician The conjurer's eyes water visibly after the brass covers are removed; and well enough they might; there is no sleight-of-hand about this—it is purely an act of self-torture. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama He may, by fasting and self-torture, of a kind no adept would approve, sharpen his senses till he can hear and see some sounds and sights inaudible and invisible to you and me. Mr. Isaacs The idea that you can expiate the deed by this self-torture is vain. Strange Visitors A few weeks later, the abbot, being angry with him because of his extreme self-torture, bade his companions strip him. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries She wondered what refinement of self-torture had driven him to choose that place to come to. The Magician He was dazed, and did not see that his own self-torture had filled him with primeval lust to torture in return. A Spinner in the Sun The poor youth had not an original mind, since this was one of the commonest forms of self-torture among the Guayana tribes. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest In Western Europe, as shown in the ceremonies of the Druids, we find among the Celts a propensity for suicide and an indifference to self-torture. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine There was a holy rivalry among them to excel in self-torture. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries In a flash she realised the deception of the life she would lead, and the cruel self-torture of wonder at her own identity. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories We've no cause—only negatives, and that means hatred, and self-torture, and a beastly jaundice of soul.' Mr. Standfast Something impelled him to go to the studio, some obscure desire for self-torture, and yet he dreaded the anguish that he foresaw. Moon and Sixpence Hence his cruel self-torture of fatigue, his cruel exercise of courage. Twilight in Italy I did not fear all this so much for itself, as for the danger of fanatic self-torture I saw in it. The Bride of Dreams The part that imagination usually plays in tormenting the jealous man with obscene pictures is now played by Iago; the first scene of the fourth act is this erotic self-torture put in Iago's mouth. The Man Shakespeare Such a thought, in itself most distressing, yet gave him another opportunity for morbid self-torture. Sanine Brahmins, too, had given themselves up to penance and mortification till they believed themselves able, like Kehama, to have gained by self-torture the right to command, not nature merely, but the gods themselves. The Hermits She knew intuitively that no consolation could avail in this hour of silent self-torture. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada The power of self-torture which the human heart possesses is well-nigh infinite. The Puritans In such self-torture Anna did not, as might have been supposed, find any mystic pleasure: she had little imagination, she would never have understood the poetry of saints like Francis of Assisi or Teresa. Jean-Christophe Journey's End "Back!" shouted Torfrida, raised almost to madness, by fasting, self-torture, and religious frenzy. Hereward, the Last of the English They went on, it is true, to glorify the means above the end; to consecrate childlessness, self-torture, dirt, ignorance, as if they were things pleasing to God and holy in themselves. The Hermits It cannot be that their powers are lacking: it can only be some timidity or self-torture which it is the business of the plain man to exorcise. On Something Unlike their ilk of India, they do not practice self-torture for long periods, but only upon a certain day in each year. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young The dragon is at last stung to death by his own malice; but how many periods of self-torture it may take to remove all sin and its effects, must depend upon its obduracy. Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) The madness of remorse and disappointment, so common in the wild middle age, had come over her; and with it the twin madness of self-torture. Hereward, the Last of the English The necessary freedom from passion and the required purity of soul can best be attained by self-torture, by a severe mortification of the flesh; hence the asceticism of the Hindu devotee. General History for Colleges and High Schools "Because I foresee it will not end well; you can never carry on this self-torture." The Mill on the Floss I laid them aside until the next occasion when I should feel disposed for self-torture, and got out of bed. The Little Nugget Such a man has a taste for self-torture; as one troubled with an irritating humor, is never at rest, unless he is tearing the flesh into a sore; he may then rest as he may. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story Yours, if this boy should die, will never become white, or will become so suddenly, as your soul will wither, with its own self-torture, within you. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky Following on that presentation of Madge came self-torture for his unfaithfulness. Clara Hopgood Something lately seemed lost to them of that kind of glad activity; he was more aware of it than she, since he was less occupied in the aesthetic ecstasy of self-torture. The Imperialist But even in the open, under the moon, the note of self-torture, of sophisticated sadness is not absent. Chopin : the Man and His Music Meantime, Walden, left alone, gave himself up to a tumult of misery and self-torture. God's Good Man All the demons of self-torture were up in her now, and she loosed them on him, as if to escape from their rage. Tales of Men and Ghosts And that the "tropical man" must be discredited at all costs, whether as disease and deterioration of mankind, or as his own hell and self-torture? Beyond Good and Evil Her state of mind resembled that of the ascetic who has arrived at a morbid delight in self-torture. The Odd Women His self-torture grew less poignant, the memory of Paris receded into the background, and in proportion as it paled the red returned to his cheeks and the light to his dull eyes. The Malady of the Century Self-denial has had no result, and all the self-torture of centuries has been thrown away. The Story of My Heart An Autobiography A man in love is fond of self-torture. Her Prairie Knight Not in this College only, but through and through Oxford, there was no heart that beat for her—no, not one, she told herself, with that instinct for self-torture which comes to souls in torment. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story The duality in self-torture of these spiritual brethren endured in all about a year and a half, and closed with Speed's marriage. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War By a malicious caprice of fate, cage and menagerie were put down right under the Dutchman's organ of self-torture. The Cloister and the Hearth "And yet that proud pleasure, which rejoices in self-torture, has something noble in it." A Voyage to Arcturus And following on this came memoranda on the recorded behaviour of martyrs, on the self-torture of Hindoo ascetics, of the defiance of Red Indian prisoners. The Research Magnificent |
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