empaling

What is empaling or sawing men alive, tearing off the flesh piecemeal with iron pincers, or broiling the flesh with candles, collop fashion, or squeezing heads flat in a vice, and all the most shocking devices which ever were upon earth, compared with one of these?

George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

He left the command to Kléber, a big mastiff, who came off duty at Cairo, assassinated by an Egyptian, whom they put to death by empaling him on a bayonet; that's the way they guillotine people down there.

Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

Edna felt as if Momus 'suggestion to Vulcan, of a window in the human heart, whereby one's thoughts might be rendered visible, had been adopted; for, under the empaling eye bent upon her, the secret motives of her conduct seemed spread out as on a scroll, which he read as well.

St. Elmo 1872

Edna felt as if Momus 'suggestion to Vulcan, of a window in the human breast, whereby one's thoughts might be rendered visible, had been adopted; for, under the empaling eye bent upon her, the secret motives of her conduct seemed spread out as on a scroll, which he read at will.

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

This has always been, and still remains, a common mode of punishment in the East; but the manner of empaling which the Assyrians adopted was peculiar.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

This method of empaling must have destroyed life tolerably soon, and have thus been

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

Time seems to have worn out that building of 1382; in the windows of which were the arms of Lord Dudley, and Dudley empaling Barckley, both knights of the garter, descended from the Somery's, Barons of

An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769

What is empaling or sawing men alive, tearing off the flesh piecemeal with iron pincers, or broiling the flesh with candles, collop fashion, or squeezing heads flat in a vice, and all the most shocking devices which ever were upon earth, compared with one of these?

The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702

Ermine on a bend, Gules, three cheverons, Or, empaling Throckmorton with six quarterings.

Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

On a brafs plate fixed to a grave-fion; are the arms of the church of Sa - lifbury, empaling a chevron, charged 'with a mullet between three lozenges, and underneath is the following infcription:

A description of that admirable structure, the cathedral church of Salisbury. : With the chapels, monuments, grave-stones, and their inscriptions. To which is prefixed an account of Old Sarum. 1774