Sentence examples for medieval rack from inspiring English sources

Like the medieval rack, every turn of the crisis tears Europe further apart.

In one castle, the diminutive Rizzuto lay on a medieval rack and asked Pignatano to stretch him.

Strings skittered and squealed; woodwinds huffed almost inaudibly; a viola croaked as if stretched on a medieval rack; a pianist tried, again and again, to restore calm.

It looked like a medieval rack.

He eventually ends up in the office of a Turkish "physio-healer" known as Kemal the Bone Cruncher, whose treatment for a herniated disc is a crude variation of a medieval torture rack.

Unfortunately, it feels more like you've been put on a medieval stretching rack, and some evil hunchback is turning a crank that's slowly pulling your pelvis apart.

And, if the quarterback's agent does his job, by the time the draft rolls around, the story of Allen willingly undergoing endless hours of excruciating torture in a medieval stretching rack will be a well-known football legend that speaks to the player's unmatched dedication to excellence.

That face, like someone's strapped an English bulldog into a medieval stretching rack.

The two ideas go together as much as a computer chip goes with a medieval torture rack.

He might look like Peter Crouch before a long stint on a medieval torture rack, but he's one of the most exciting attacking players in the league and is playing at the perfect club for him.

We embarked in search of our friends and after fighting our way through various chains and thumb-screws found them in the outdoor patio by a medieval torture rack where a straight-jacketed Asian man named Frank -- who was a math tutor by day -- endured mild pinching from a Queen-sized Dominatrix wearing a halo neck-brace.