Jake and Otto were sure that when they galloped round that ring the Indians tortured prisoners, bound to a stake in the centre; but grandfather thought they merely ran races or trained horses there.

On the other hand, nothing tortured her more intolerably than when this recognition was too prominently expressed.

I suppose it is fashion that makes them strap our heads up with those horrid bits that I was tortured with in London," said Ginger.

His mind would hang upon the worst possibilities; he saw Ona ill and tortured. Marija out of her place, little Stanislovas unable to get to work for the snow, the whole family turned out on the street.

You want to send Jim and me back to be whipped and tortured. and ground down under the heels of them that you call masters; and your laws will bear you out in it,--more shame for you and them

In the midst of the prayer a fly had lit on the back of the pew in front of him and tortured his spirit by calmly rubbing its hands together, embracing its head with its arms, and polishing it so vigorously that it seemed to almost part company with the body, and the slender thread of a neck was exposed to view; scraping its wings with its hind legs and smoothing them to its body as if they had been coat-tails; going through its whole toilet as tranquilly as if it knew it was perfectly safe.

Jennings to be called, only tortured her more, by hints of what her mistress had always thought.

I ought probably to have done or said nothing; but I was so tortured by a sense of remorse at thus hurting his feelings, I could not control the wish to drop balm where I had wounded.

Her tortured fingers relaxed their hold; the book dropped from them; she sank forward heavily.

And has left me," answered the nephew, "bound to a system that is frightful to me, responsible for it, but powerless in it; seeking to execute the last request of my dear mother's lips, and obey the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy and to redress; and tortured by seeking assistance and power in vain.

Sordid and selfish as I knew it was, and as I tortured myself by knowing that it was, to let my mind run on my own distress so much, I was so devoted to Dora that I could not help it.

When we had come out again, and had got rid of the boys who had been put into great spirits by the expectation of seeing me publicly tortured. and who were much disappointed to find that my friends were merely rallying round me, we went back to Pumblechook's.