 ... to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim...  Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs - Pàgina 245per William Eusebius Andrews - 1826Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Cobbett - 1824 - 394 pàgines
...legs, compress" ed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten " the feet and hands together over the small of the " back. The time allotted to...torture was an " hour and a half, during which time the blood gushed from " the nostrils, and, sometimes, from the hands and feet." There -were several... | |
 | John Lingard - 1825 - 572 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small...from excess of compression the blood started from the notrils; sometimes, it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. See Bartoli, 250.... | |
 | John Lingard - 1827 - 704 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small...of compression the blood started from the nostrils; sometimes, it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. See Bartoli, 250. 3. Iron gauntlets,... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pàgines
...shoulder, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small...from excess of compression the blood started from the nostrils,—sometimes it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet.— 3. Iron Gauntlets,... | |
 | Jean François M. Le Pappe de Trévern (bp. of Strassburg.) - 1828 - 490 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of tortuie was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that from excess of compression... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 624 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time aliened to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which the blood commonly started, by... | |
 | C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small...of compression, the blood started from the nostrils ; sometimes, it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. " 3. Iron gauntlets, which... | |
 | David Jardine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1832 - 540 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his leg*, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small...of compression the blood started from the nostrils ; sometimes, it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. 3d. Iron gauntlets, which... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small...of compression the blood started from the nostrils ; sometimes, it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. 3d. Iron gauntlets, which... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pàgines
...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compresse, 1 the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which the blood commonly started, by force of the compression, from the nostrils, and sometimes from the... | |
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