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Definition of Tormentors
1. tormentor [n] - See also: tormentor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tormentors
Literary usage of Tormentors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"at his tormentors with furious eyes each time they prodded him, and jerked his
head to escape when the straws were already in his ears. ..."
2. The Art of Playwriting: Being a Practical Treatise on the Elements of by Alfred Hennequin (1890)
"The tormentors. — The first entrances, right and left, are called the tormentors.
Some writers, however, use 1 E. for the first entrance back of the ..."
3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"On being released, he was compelled to sign a paper dictated by his tormentors.
The circumstance did not escape Trumbull's caustic pen ; and he asks, ..."
4. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 by George Lincoln Burr (1914)
"On the last day of the Week her tormentors as she thought and said, approaching
towards her, would be forced still to recoil and retire as unaccountably ..."
5. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 by George Lincoln Burr (1914)
"On the last day of the Week her tormentors as she thought and ... gave thanks to
God for her deliverance; her tormentors left her extream weak and faint, ..."
6. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"On being released, he was compelled to sign a paper dictated by his tormentors.
The circumstance did not escape Trumbull's caustic pen ; and he asks, ..."
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