It would take too much time to describe the various tortures these people suffered, but Inge's punishment consisted in standing there as a statue, with her foot fastened to the loaf.
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Tortures
Synonyms for "tortures" (13 found)
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16 entriesanxietyemotional tormentendurance testflayinginsomniaisolationload testmoral tormentpsychological torturerackruminationsleep deprivationstress testtemperature testtorture chamberwaterboarding
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10 entriescruelty practicesphysical torturepsychological tortureracksleep deprivationstate torturetorture chambertorture devicetorture methodswaterboarding
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.
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French paratroopers performed atrocious tortures to Algerians during the liberation war.
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