Each aura has a different flavor: a man enduring hideous tortures, a woman desperate to save her offspring, a terrified child taken in the night all have a distinct feel when absorbed.

They may endure mock tortures on the stage; they have seen real tortures in the streets.

For three days, you've endured tortures that have turned other men into screaming maniacs!

In spite of having endured tortures that would drive anyone else insane, he had kept the memory of the Linyaari escape route, drummed into him since boyhood, not only intact, but also secret from the Khieevi.

He endured most cruel tortures as he noted every variation of the breathing which was so near him; he dared not make the slightest movement.

Surely they were a hardy species, to endure such tortures as "automobiles" and "streets" and "sneakers."

The spirit visited him at night, and forced him to endure humiliating tortures.

For almost a year, he endured tremendous tortures.

"What an atrociously delicious thing we are bound to say writing is - since we keep slaving this way, enduring such tortures and not wanting things otherwise," wrote Flaubert to his mistress, Louise Colet, in 1894.

She belongs to the band of martyrs of Lyon who, after some of their number had endured frightful tortures, suffered martyrdom in 177 in the reign of Marcus Aurelius.