thumbscrews

We know what these things are today; the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the firetrap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.

Metropolitan Opera House meeting to protest the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: speech by Rose Schneiderman Jewish Women's Archive 1911

We know what these things are today; the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the firetrap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.

Metropolitan Opera House meeting to protest the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: speech by Rose Schneiderman Jewish Women's Archive 1911

We know what these things are today: the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the firetrap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch fire.

JVOICES.COM Cole 2009

The Warder shows us some instrooments of tortur, such as thumbscrews, throat-collars, etc., statin that these was conkered from the Spanish

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

The Warder shows us some instrooments of tortur, such as thumbscrews, throat-collars, etc., statin that these was conkered from the Spanish

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887

It was quite fun to do, although I get the feeling Mr Litlove felt he would rather endure thumbscrews if that should prove to be an alternative.

Does It Make Sense? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

When all those keys were going full blast, with the thumbscrews all the way open, the cacophony of sound made it hard to hear clearly any one telegraph key vs its neighbors.

Frank A. Weil: Time to Scale Back Frank A. Weil 2011

On the top of the armature are thumbscrews which regulate the width of the gap which manages the sound of the signals generated by closing the gap.

Frank A. Weil: Time to Scale Back Frank A. Weil 2011

As a species we have matured, grown away from crucificion, breaking on the rack, burning at the stake, the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden.

Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009

As a species we have matured, grown away from crucificion, breaking on the rack, burning at the stake, the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden.

Sky News, Choudhary and Sharia Law Dungeekin 2009