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Meanings of hot pincers in English

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Usage of hot pincers in English
1
First, Stubbe was flayed alive, his skin peeled off with red- hot pincers.
Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
2
A frightful anguish commenced to torture-my heart as with red- hot pincers.
Clarimonde
3
Sooner would I have this tongue torn out with red- hot pincers.'
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
4
Better do that, by a long way, than be pulled to pieces with hot pincers.'
On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers
5
Silence hovered, twisting Thikair's nerves like white- hot pincers, and then, finally, the human leader spoke.
Out of the dark
6
A shoemaker had been tortured to death with red- hot pincers for abetting her correspondence with her allies.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 03
7
The assassin has been arrested, and the wretched man will be burnt, drawn with red- hot pincers, and quartered.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
8
Some of the figures are being roasted, twitched with red- hot pincers, partly baked, or forced to swallow fire.
A Woman's Journey Round the World / From Vienna to Brazil, Chili...
9
I should tear your tongue out with hot pincers and deliver you to the Dreadfort to be flayed.
A Dance with Dragons
10
Prescott felt hot pincers grip him around the heart, and a passion that he could not control flamed to his brain.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
11
Tear my sides, my chest, my face, with red- hot pincers, flay me alive, shoot, stone me, rather than keep me waiting.
Old Love Stories Retold
12
By heaven, I will have thy tongue torn out with hot pincers for mentioning the very name of a noble damsel!
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
13
Tell me the whole truth, or, by the head of the emperor, I'll twist it out of you with red- hot pincers!'
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
14
Moreover, my hunger has grown to such violent pitch that it is tearing at me, so to speak, with red hot pincers.
The Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods
15
By Heaven, I will have thy tongue torn out with hot pincers, for mentioning the very name of a noble Christian damsel!
The Talisman
16
His flesh was then torn with red hot pincers, and at last he was despatched by being torn to pieces by wild beasts.
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, a...
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Hot pincers through the time
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