Sentence examples for stretching rack from inspiring English sources

But how is this different from requiring a dwarf to submit to a stretching 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.

One poem makes a soldier returning from war sound like Actaeon incarnate: "what remains of my uniform / tattered and tailed / as velvet from antlers, as moss / flayed from this stretching rack of rock".

Separate research by human rights observers has uncovered medieval-like torture systems, including a stretching rack, and reports of a juvenile detention centre head who together with his son raped teenage inmates.

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.

It's filled with all the necessities for what was referred to as "painful examination," including various stretching racks, pillories for exposing people to public humiliation, and something called a spiked rabbit, consisting of a wooden cylinder studded with iron balls.

Discovery and invention have made it possible for the Government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet".

A bed, a vanity table and a clothing rack stretching the length of a city block make up the main room.

Techniques include beatings, leg crushing, sexual abuse and a rack-like stretching body technique.

I feel I've been stretched on the rack.