The thumbscrew was a little thing, but caused great agony. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
There was a machine called the piniwinkies -- a kind of thumbscrew, which brought blood from under the finger nails, with a pain successfully terrible. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Nary a thumbscrew, not so much as a used nipple-clamp. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
To the thumbscrew and the stake, for the glory of the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
The pressure can be adjusted by the thumbscrew on the balance. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964] Reference
Since there wasn't a thumbscrew for a thousand miles, she shrugged it off. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
Hubert took a thumbscrew from his pouch and held it against the blue fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
It even has a small thumbscrew so you can lock the dial and orientate an observed azimuth to your map. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
It seemed to be only a bracket for holding a pair of black rods and a thumbscrew for adjusting their spacing. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
"If Mukasey had been asked about the rack and thumbscrew, would he have said that it depends on the circumstances?". From Wordnik.com. [Senate Judiciary Committee endorses "Torture Boy II" for AG; Senate needs a wake-up call] Reference
A painted target, arranged with a slide to be moved up and down on this staff, and held by a thumbscrew, will be found useful. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Think of nateral gas for us fellows, and cute little stoves and grates; where you can jest turn it on and off with a thumbscrew. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
Of the thumbscrew would not prove that earth revolved. From Wordnik.com. [Watchers of the Sky] Reference
"The last turn of the thumbscrew!" said Mr. Bernard to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
He tells as that we must "learn to know every man's thumbscrew.". From Wordnik.com. [Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn] Reference
So tender and thoughtful wi 'pincers, thumbscrew, rack or red-hot iron!. From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
He scorned the rack and thumbscrew, declaring they could not reach his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
A little device worked by a thumbscrew varied the angle in proportion to the depth. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference
And it is because I am in doubt that I have brought him under Mr Cheekey's thumbscrew. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Henry] Reference
But I want to say, the thumbscrew having got out of the way, I am going to have my say. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest] Reference
Not only do they press the prisoners to confess their crimes, but they press them in a thumbscrew!. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Question] Reference
Marius may have honor, but his honor is cruel, like an inquisitor with rack and thumbscrew; and then. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
The quick release plate is also metal, and uses a metal thumbscrew to secure the plate to the camera. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
That spirit lighted the fagot, made the thumbscrew, put chains upon the limbs, and lashes upon the backs of men. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest] Reference
Toleration does not mean simply abstinence from the thumbscrew and the rack or even the repeal of the Conventicle or the. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War] Reference
Two locknuts and a thumbscrew take up all lost motion yet afford perfect adjustability and easy separation for cleansing. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
Now the thumbscrew and the rack as instruments for the discomfiture of heretics are relegated to the dusty cases of museums. From Wordnik.com. [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference
Though they have not to face the thumbscrew and the stake, they discover painfully enough that the offence of the Cross has not ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.] Reference
Therefore among the instruments of cruelty, called the rack, the fagot, the thumbscrew and the tomahawk, let us give the first place to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon] Reference
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