 | John Lingard - 1825 - 572 pàgines
...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...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 - 554 pàgines
...hoop under }ib legs, compressed the victim close together, lili he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this...torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that, from excess of compression, the blood started from the nostrils, and sometimes,... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 446 pàgines
...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»... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pàgines
...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...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 pàgines
...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
...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 force of the compression, from the nostrils, and sometimes from the... | |
 | C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pàgines
...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...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,... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pàgines
...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...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,... | |
 | David Jardine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1832 - 540 pàgines
...hoop under his leg*, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this...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,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 pàgines
...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 torture was an hour and a half, during which the blood commonly sîarted, by force of the compression, from the nostrils, and sometimes from the... | |
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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 close together till he was... 
