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Definition of Torturers
1. torturer [n] - See also: torturer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torturers
Literary usage of Torturers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"The Indian's Chief Pleasure in Life — Relishing the Agony of a Victim — Cruelty
to Animals — Indian Women in the Role of Torturers — Hellish Ingenuity ..."
2. The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic Henry Read Sawyer (1900)
"... pact of Biak-na-Bato—The 74th Regiment joins the insurgents—The massacre of
the Calle Camba—Amnesty for torturers—Torture in other countries. ..."
3. Sir Harry Parkes in China by Stanley Lane-Poole (1901)
"... and subjected to a long and severe examination, in which the argument of
threats and the indignities of the torturers were used without scruple. ..."
4. The Works of William Robertson, D.D.: To which is Prefixed an Account of the by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1827)
"... r~, BOOK hands of his torturers, and prolonged a life reserved v. for new
indignities and sufferings.4 ..."
5. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"Then the trial by these torturers begins, the counts made : he is knocked down,
divided limb from ..."
6. Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Henry Harris (1901)
"The torturers tore his flesh with pointed cards, yet still he repeated, " The
Lord is one." "Always did I say," he continued, "that ( with all thy soul/ ..."
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