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Great Britain. Official barometers registered a low mark of 27.5 inches, a low pressure seldom equaled by the worst tropical typhoons. Off the Welsh coast the British destroyer Tormentor, dismantled, was being towed to a shipbreaking yard. The tow rope snapped, the Tormentor and her skeleton crew of four vanished into the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Atlantic Cataclysm | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...there came a time when her tormentor was, instead, a self-seeking woman of questionable reputation, who insinuated in saccharine tones that Adrienne had of course murdered her father. Haunted by this new horror, dazed with the misery of her unrequited love, Adrienne rushed from the house, muttering confused reminiscences of a mind gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Provincial Aridity | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Trader Joe Easter of Mantrap turns up, the genuine article in quiet He-Men, and it really looks as though the Castigator were going to take a few last slashes at E. Wesson Woodbury and finish the story in unparalleled Open Spaces style. Prescott curses his bumbling tormentor, quits him and goes off with sympathetic Joe Easter. Joe philosophizes with winning rusticity, curbs wild nature with handsome ease and is quite touching about his young wife, a city manicure-girl regenerated by Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Nicolo, Maffeo, Marco | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Contaminated | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...concrete instance of the blood-thirstiness objected to is supplied by the following sentence quoted from the longest article, entitled "The Flagellants." "Every day thereafter, the victim's bloody back burned up in red hell-fire before the tormentor's wild eyes: divine threats of damnation echoed through the silence; amid the awful glare two gaunt figures writhed,- the one upon the floor, his eyes starting out in agony, the other in the air, his eyes swelling with glutted revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 5/12/1897 | See Source »

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