He was often called Torquemada, from his harsh and abstemious habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

Turricremata, alias Torquemada, who, shedding floods of honest tears, caused his victims to be burnt alive; and an Anchieta, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

A man called Torquemada conducted his religious crusade in the same way some hundreds of years ago, and has been cursed for his system by humanity ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop's Secret] Reference

"Torquemada," for over thirty years promised, came forth in 1882, to prove that the wizard-wand had not lost its cunning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

Prædicatorum, fol. 80-81) calls Torquemada "the hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the saviour of his country, the honour of his order".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

FWIW, I just love it when revenant gets all Torquemada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Axelrod: Obama "thought very long and hard about" about opening up the CIA interrogation memos.] Reference

I eat people like Trad, Deadwood, and Torquemada alive—.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Professor:] Reference

Or because Torquemada was when he ran the Spanish Inquisition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A different perspective] Reference

Torquemada tortured people physically for the sake of moral truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodoxy] Reference

Torquemada would have called that "putting the question" to Haynes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torture from the Top Down] Reference

I think this terminal was designed by a reincarnation of Torquemada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burning Water]

They are the descendants of Torquemada and they are angry and violent.    From Wordnik.com.  [John DeCock: 2010 Elections -- The New Inquisitors] Reference

Torquemada and the inhumanity of the inquisition during the Middle Ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [FIDEL CASTRO SCORES U.S. IN IPU SPEECH] Reference

What do you want to bet that Torquemada wore a crucifix during the inquisition?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deja Vu] Reference

All three judges smiled at Clan the way Torquemada might have smiled at a rabbi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Builders]

What Torquemada did was entirely inconsistent with the teachings of Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deja Vu] Reference

Next week: Professor Torquemada decides which students will be admitted to the Ph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Professor:] Reference

And all with an instrument that looks like something Torquemada would have had fun with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting medieval on my ear] Reference

Our Torquemada wheel-woman decides this is the moment to show us what her chariot will do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

Benton says What Torquemada did was entirely inconsistent with the teachings of Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deja Vu] Reference

Just like Torquemada working so hard to save all those souls by ripping apart all those bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Builders]

The Military/Industrial complex is licking its chops and theocrats are lining up to play Torquemada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princeton University Reveals How the GOP Steals Election] Reference

It is always a bracing experience to have one's feet put to the coals by the Torquemada of computing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Computers in Your Future'] Reference

Some closet Torquemada had pointed at this antique, crowed, "Personnel carrier!" and ordered us aboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

At the solicitation of Turrecremata (or Torquemada), a brother of the Dominican order, and grand inquisitor of Spain, the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

There is more than a touch of the Torquemada in a self-righteous "conservative" that needs to have a bucket brigade at the ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Palin's Spokesperson Didn't Know About Pregnancy Two Days Ago] Reference

Nevertheless i must ask you to explain why the earlier generations thought the earth was flat and the Torquemada was right? etc etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The correspondents were back in Moscow four hours later, after the usual uncomfortable ride on an Aeroflot jet with its Torquemada seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

Without her turban, her hair showed light auburn, cut in a fetching schoolgirl fringe above a lovely impudent, face whose smile of invitation would have melted Torquemada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watershed] Reference