1 Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.
2 During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.
3 The idea of this visit was torture to me, yet I could not refuse.
4 I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
5 I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.
6 I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.
7 Then, gasping for breath, did Hester Prynne clutch the fatal token, instinctively endeavouring to tear it away, so infinite was the torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl's baby-hand.
8 They shall no longer worry others, nor torture myself.
9 In Mrs. Brandley's house and out of Mrs. Brandley's house, I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me.
10 My boots might be placed in any collection of instruments of torture.
11 Would you believe it, I was teaching Grisha just now: once this was a joy to me, now it is a torture.
12 Levin loved his brother, but being with him was always a torture.
13 There was nothing cheerful and joyous in the feeling; on the contrary, it was a new torture of apprehension.
14 For a swift instant there went through her memory again the horrors of her last night in Atlanta, the ruined homes that dotted the countryside, all the stories of rape and torture and murder.
15 She had listened with calm contempt while these women had underrated the Confederate Army, blackguarded Jeff Davis and accused Southerners of murder and torture of their slaves.