"Then, by the blessed shrine of St Jago, give the fellows at least the strappado," cried Don John, out of all patience. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
By ill luck there happened to be at least half a dozen callers in the drawing-room; the strappado would have been preferable, in his eyes, to such an ordeal as this. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
The Papists 'faith is too big for all men to agree upon, or even all their own, if they enforced it not with arguments drawn from the fire, the halter, and the strappado. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
Nice are hanging for capital crimes; slavery on board the gallies for a limited term, or for life, according to the nature of the transgression; flagellation, and the strappado. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Then the unlucky Carli was once more put to the strappado. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
By my faith, he shall know what the strappado means when I see. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
Those who do the reverse expose themselves to a sound strappado. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
"Of a ravishment -- of the strappado applied to a man bound hand and foot --". From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
The official report says he had to suffer three and a half tratti da fune (a sort of strappado). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
But no sooner was he delivered from the strappado, than he retracted all that he had before confessed. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
'Zounds, an I were at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of King Henry IV] Reference
Zounds! an I were at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
I did hear that, as this raid of some privates interfered with the Dutch general's diet, one of the offenders got the strappado. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker] Reference
The three most common methods were the garrucha, similar to the strappado; the toca, or ordeal of water; and the potro, a form of the rack. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
For the record, strappado -- the act of tying a prisoner's arms behind his back and hoisting him upwards -- is also known as a "stress position.". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
The wheel, the gibbet, the strappado, kept close guard round the place of refuge, watching incessantly for their prey, like sharks about a vessel. From Wordnik.com. [II. Humpbacked, One-Eyed, Lame. Book IX] Reference
Scarpines and strappado won't lay stone on stone! ". From Wordnik.com. [Sir Mortimer] Reference
’Zounds, an I were at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The first part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
"to stand with their hands chained to the ceiling and their feet shackled," an effect similar to the strappado. From Wordnik.com. [Infowars] Reference
A grim smile; “I have had too much of the rack already, and the strappado too, to care much what man can do unto me. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
It is the strappado for. From Wordnik.com. [PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All] Reference
It is the strappado for Spain and Latin Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Stone, gout, strappado, racks, whatever is. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)] Reference
(175) strappado, adj. strapped, flat broke. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
Spaniards, strappado, rack, galleys, and all! ". From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
‘stoccado’, ‘strappado’, ‘tornado’, ‘vanilla’, ‘verandah’. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
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