to torture
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see.
The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.