Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.

When she did, on the last possible day allowed by the court, her relatives began devising exquisite tortures to drive her away.

He planned only to disturb her sleep with stories of the exquisite tortures he had planned for the next day.

'I have devised a number of exquisite tortures for little boys who break bottles' he wrote, 'such as circumcising them with the jagged fragments'.

Wielding the displacer also changed the air pressure around it, which, Data had read, made for some exquisite tortures.

Was what he really meant that in those years he had learned to inflict greater agonies, more exquisite tortures?

Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace.

He stroked one finger along her jawline and she suffered exquisite tortures under the false caress.

He expected the exquisite tortures that people who go to abandoned tenement basements at four in the morning mete out to the people who are already there.