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Meanings of slow torture in English

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Usage of slow torture in English
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You have seen the traces of that slow torture in my face.
Fenton's Quest
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Better the quick work of the lion than the slow torture of conscience.
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 02
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Here, Ajmal and Rehman have been delivering their own form of slow torture.
The Guardian
4
Washington's term dragged to its close like so much slow torture.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall ...
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Then I grimly set myself to endure the remaining days of my slow torture.
Boycotted, and Other Stories
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Think of the slow torture of little girls in foot-bound China, the mother concurrent!
The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
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To Willard Holmes the life was a slow torture, a revelation and an education.
The Winning of Barbara Worth
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Tom's uneasiness grew more and more intense under the slow torture of these proceedings.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
9
They may kill you, but they won't put you to death by slow torture.
An Enemy of the People
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From the beginning he regretted coming; before the end it was slow torture for him.
The Everlasting Whisper
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In every instance, rituals of humiliation, of slow torture, of unspeakable bestiality accompanied the killings.
The Guardian
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It was easy to see how the unhappy man had met his end-byslow torture.
Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
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It didn't matter to you that her need was turning into a kind of slow torture.
Beat of Temptation
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He moved to amend by substituting slow torture.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870
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We have tried to kill you-killyou by a slow torture, as we thought you deserved.
The Danger Trail
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One video, obtained by a newspaper shows the slow torture of one inmate until he dies.
BBC
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