You will live on and on, suffering the most horrible tortures I am able to devise!

'Well, the sound of the very air itself being subjected to horrible tortures?'

"I do not believe you," cried the soldier, and he expired amid horrible tortures.

He wished he could believe in hell so as to comfort himself with the thought of the horrible tortures which would be theirs.

Pins had been stuck in his eyes and there were other tortures too horrible to mention.

"However," resumed the guide, "it is certain, not only that we shall risk our lives, but horrible tortures, if we are taken."

Jerome describes horrible tortures inflicted on a woman accused of adultery.

It was mostly peasants, artisans and merchants who died for their new faith, often after enduring horrible tortures.

I saved the poor devils from horrible tortures.

It was a slight thing when the Protestants inflicted death alone, unaccompanied by the most horrible tortures.