"torture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.
- When she did, on the last possible day allowed by the court, her relatives began devising exquisite tortures to drive her away.
- He planned only to disturb her sleep with stories of the exquisite tortures he had planned for the next day.
- 'I have devised a number of exquisite tortures for little boys who break bottles' he wrote, 'such as circumcising them with the jagged fragments'.
- Wielding the displacer also changed the air pressure around it, which, Data had read, made for some exquisite tortures.
- Was what he really meant that in those years he had learned to inflict greater agonies, more exquisite tortures?
- Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace.
- He stroked one finger along her jawline and she suffered exquisite tortures under the false caress.
- He expected the exquisite tortures that people who go to abandoned tenement basements at four in the morning mete out to the people who are already there.
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