"So when are you going to bring the thumbscrews out for me?"

The man showed what he had in his hands: a thumbscrew.

She wants to keep putting the thumbscrews right to you, baby.

If you're in Error you are one step away from the thumbscrews.

No more tonight, short of the rack and the thumbscrew.

"I'm not really into thumbscrews, but thanks for the offer."

It was her mother's way of keeping the thumbscrews handy.

"I wish you would use thumbscrews," she said after a few moments.

That there were ever such instruments as thumbscrews bring tears to your eyes.

I think people want the thumbscrew of firm government, myself.'

"It's beginning to look like the thumbscrews for you, sonny."

Or those who say, "Let's put the thumbscrews on the agriculture ministers."

The man held a pair of thumbscrews before Gar's eyes.

That would create a more stable base and eliminate the need for the thumbscrews.

The girl's half dead and all you can think of is putting her in thumbscrews.'

They had used thumbscrews first, then a clamp that squeezed the head.

The only practical way to facilitate interrogation would be to bring out thumbscrews.

I don't think thumbscrews would have forced him to admit it.

"There are limits to what can be done with the thumbscrews, sir.

"After some arm-twisting and thumbscrews, I found out about your uncle."

I was afraid they were going to start on me with the thumbscrews and needles."

A thumbscrew, often made of brass, locks the rod at any point to hold the window open.

"If you're nice, we'll shoot you after using the thumbscrews.

I was just about to go down to the cellar to see if they really do use thumbscrews.'

He introduced the use of the thumbscrew in Scotland.