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These tortur'd fingers and these stab'd-through armes 75
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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The Fire of Pitch-Pine being got ready, and a Feast appointed, which is solemnly kept at the time of their acting this Tragedy, the Sufferer has his Body stuck thick with Light-Wood-Splinters, which are lighted like so many Candles, the tortur'd Person dancing round a great Fire, till his Strength fails, and disables him from making them any farther Pastime.
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How sore then were they tortur'd in burning anguish dire!
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906
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Round the dark stair-case, like a tortur'd eel, --
Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." George Colman 1799
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Oh doubt! oh fear with which my heart is tortur'd!
The Death of Balder Johannes Ewald 1762
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II. i.36 (37,1) [I grow to you, and our parting is a tortur'd body] I read thus, _Our parting is_ the parting of _a tortured body.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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The Fire of Pitch-Pine being got ready, and a Feast appointed, which is solemnly kept at the time of their acting this Tragedy, the Sufferer has his Body stuck thick with Light-Wood-Splinters, which are lighted like so many Candles, the tortur'd Person dancing round a great Fire, till his Strength fails, and disables him from making them any farther Pastime.
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-- See here, perfidious Wretch, how I am forc'd to bear about the Load of Infamy you have laid upon me -- O _Macheath_! thou hast robb'd me of my Quiet -- to see thee tortur'd would give me
The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song John Gay 1708
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I wou'd marry her to be reveng'd on him, at least I le vex his Soul as he has tortur'd mine, — well Gentlemen, you'le dine with me, — and give me your opinion of my Wife.
Sir Patient Fancy 1678
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_Isabella_, I wou'd marry her to be reveng'd on him, at least I'll vex his Soul, as he has tortur'd mine.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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