"Torturer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this collection of ugly instruments, putting one in mind of a torturer's kit of tools, there are some articles of defence and offence of a bygone age. A coat of mail, with links so flexible, close, and light, that it resembles steel tissue, hangs from a box beside iron cuishes and arm-pieces, in good ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... portion of the band, would so detach it that it might be unwound from my person by means of my left hand. But how fearful, in that case, the proximity of the steel! The result of the slightest struggle how deadly! Was it likely, moreover, that the minions of the torturer had not foreseen and provided for this possibility! Was it probable that the bandage crossed my bosom in the track of the pendulum? Dreading to find my faint, and, as it seemed, in last hope frustrated, I so far elevated my head as ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... friends, when Pilate would have hesitated, it was the people who shouted "Christ to the cross!" But we bind you not to our safety—no! Betray us to the crowd—impeach, calumniate, malign us if you will—we are above death, we should walk cheerfully to the den of the lion, or the rack of the torturer—we can trample down the darkness of the grave, and what is death to a criminal is eternity to ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... commencer ainsi le recit de sa vie. On a le jeu, l'ivresse et l'aube dans les yeux, On a sa mere, on est des ecoliers joyeux, De petits hommes gais, respirant l'atmosphere A pleins poumons, aimes, libres, contents; que faire, Sinon de torturer quelque etre malheureux? Le crapaud se trainait au fond du chemin creux. C'etait l'heure ou des champs les profondeurs s'azurent. Fauve, il cherchait la nuit; les enfants l'apercurent Et crierent:—Tuons ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... perceptibly, painfully, as the victim must shrink, despite all his resolution, from the hot iron of the torturer. ...
— Rosa Mundi and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... tortures, we proceed to quote the official report:— "And as in reply to every question she would confess nothing, we caused her to be taken by two officers and led from the prison to the torture chamber, where the torturer was in attendance; there, after cutting off her hair, he made her sit on a small stool, undressed her, pulled off her shoes, tied her hands behind her back, fastened them to a rope passed over a pulley bolted ...
— Quotes and Images From "Celebrated Crimes" • Alexander Dumas, Pere
... lasted for twenty years, until an attack of apoplexy placed the Surintendant beyond the reach of his torturer. So lost had he been in his living tomb, that it is a debated point whether he died in Piguerol or not. He has even been one of the candidates for the mysterious dignity of the Iron Mask. In his dungeon he could learn nothing of what was ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 • Various
... physiologist and torturer, judged by scientific men and physiologists of a higher race, to whom compassion was not unknown. For undisguised contempt of pity, for delight in cruelty, for the infliction of refined and ingenious torment, he may have been equally by some who followed and imitated him, but certainly ...
— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell
... he cried, "shamefully maltreated by yonder villain, is my father. Whoso thinks he has acted wrongly in forfeiting the life of his torturer shall answer to me. With my sword I shall ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence
... her anxieties as a mother, and driven by dire necessity, had discovered too late the mistakes she had been involuntarily led into by her excessive love. Still, the worthy daughter of her mother, her heart ached at the thought of worrying Wenceslas; she loved her dear poet too much to become his torturer; and she could foresee the hour when beggary awaited her, her child, ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac |
