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But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack.
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I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour.
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I'll uphold you to face Spaniards, strappado, rack, galleys, and all!
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By my faith, he shall know what the strappado means when I see Versailles again.
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Scarpines and strappado won't lay stone on stone!
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But no sooner was he delivered from the strappado, than he retracted all that he had before confessed.
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The strappado was an instrument of torture by which the victim's limbs were wrenched out of joint and broken.
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No, were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion.
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I did hear that, as this raid of some privates interfered with the Dutch general's diet, one of the offenders got the strappado.
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Lastly comes the torture of the rope and pulley, the most in vogue of all, and known in other Latin countries as the strappado.
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Glancing through a wide window, Roderick saw a portable strappado out in the plaza, along with a spiked chair, compression helmets, and a medieval rack.
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"Of a ravishment-ofthe strappado applied to a man bound hand and foot-
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"I cannot- Idarenot," he cried; "it is the place of torture-ofthe engines-the strappado-thewater-drop, the leg-crushers!"
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"Then, by the blessed shrine of St Jago, give the fellows at least the strappado," cried Don John, out of all patience.
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But save me from the strappado, from the torment of the rack.
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I'd strappado you and then hang you within the next half-hour.