Over the course of 30 days they were subjected to cruel tortures, and with the help of God they all persevered, glorifying God.

Emperors usually ordered similar but less cruel tortures.

Nevertheless Lumey, the commander of the Watergeuzen, ordered them to be hanged on the night of 9 July, in a turfshed, after cruel tortures.

The one comrade Congressman we did not get was Arthur Simpson, and he had already died in Cabanas after cruel tortures.

He endured most cruel tortures as he noted every variation of the breathing which was so near him; he dared not make the slightest movement.

Before attaining his ninth birthday, he'd suffered cruel tortures at the hands of the Harkonnens.

You know the cruel tortures and the awful death her love won for her at the hands of the beast, Tal Hajus.

Some who resisted suffered beatings and such cruel tortures that there had been suicides.

Isn't deprivation of sleep one of the most cruel tortures practiced in prisons?

Frightful tales were whispered of the cruel tortures he inflicted upon his victims.