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Definition of Tortures
1. torture [v] - See also: torture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tortures
Literary usage of Tortures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1900)
"The one who withstood these self-inflicted tortures longest won the position.
... Catlin has described the manner in which they inflicted these tortures, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"LITTLE tortures. BAD temper is one of the most prolific causes of misery in ...
We refer to physical tortures of the minor order, which are as numerous as ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... the Dane, ordered most terrible tortures to be inflicted. Again he was offered
terms of surrender, and again he refused. ..."
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