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Definition of Thumbscrews
1. thumbscrew [n] - See also: thumbscrew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thumbscrews
Literary usage of Thumbscrews
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years of an Actors̓ Life by John Coleman (1904)
"... and Father and I are packed off on our Travels—Ashby and the Last of the de
la Zouches—The Ruined Castle and the Old Church—Stocks and thumbscrews—At ..."
2. Footsteps of Our Forefathers: What They Suffered and what They Sought by James Goodeve Miall (1852)
"... the terrible retribution which followed, that Charles II., Monk, Sharp,
Lauderdale, Middleton, were no angels! , * Bib. Sao., pp. xi., xii. thumbscrews. ..."
3. Footsteps of Our Forefathers: What They Suffered and what They Sought by James Goodeve Miall, Anelay (1854)
"... terrible retribution which followed, that Charles II., Monk, Sharp, Lauderdale,
Middleton, were no angels! I * Bib. Sac., pp. XL., zii. 27* thumbscrews. ..."
4. The Firefly of France by Marion Polk Angellotti (1918)
"CHAPTER VI thumbscrews THE salon of conversation, as that mirrored, gilded, and
highly varnished apartment was grandiloquently termed, had been the spot ..."
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