 | William Cobbett - Catholic emancipation - 1824 - 394 pages
...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, compress" ed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten " the feet and hands together over... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1825 - 572 pages
...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...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that from excess of compression the blood started from the notrils; sometimes,... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 446 pages
...victim c/«s« together, tiU h» uni uWf to fasten the extremities over the small of the bark. , Th« time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during ichich lime it torn* manly happened that front excels of compression, the Wood started fi*1* '** tU4tril»... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 554 pages
...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 }ib legs, compressed the victim close together, lili he was able to fasten the extremities over the... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulder, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that from excess of compression the blood started from the nostrils,—sometimes... | |
 | Jean François M. Le Pappe de Trévern (bp. of Strassburg.) - 1828 - 490 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Cobbett - Reformation - 1829 - 538 pages
...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...victim close "together, till. he was able to fasten the feet and " hands together over the small of the back. " The time allotted to this tind of torture was... | |
 | C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pages
...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...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that, from excess of compression, the blood started from the nostrils ; sometimes,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...prisoner was laid on his back, upon the floor, with hie wrists and ankles attached by corde to fvo rollers at the end of the frame. These rollers were...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 of... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...was made to kneel ou the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and having...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that from excess of compression the blood started from the nostrils ; sometimes,... | |
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... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened 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,... 
