tormentors

As the book begins, Harry bids a final farewell to the Dursley family, his muggle tormentors from the very first book.

Rabid Reads: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" J.K. Rowling 2010

As the book begins, Harry bids a final farewell to the Dursley family, his muggle tormentors from the very first book.

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The word tormentors, here, probably means keepers of the prison.

Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

The only extenuation lay in the accident that, though the tormentors were my age, they were a year ahead of me in school; so I was never in classes with them.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

The only extenuation lay in the accident that, though the tormentors were my age, they were a year ahead of me in school; so I was never in classes with them.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

Behind the tormentors is a curtain called the "olio," which fulfills the triple purpose of hiding the rest of the stage, serving as scenery for acts in One and often as a curtain to raise and lower on acts playing in the space back of One.

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

Amongst the number of my tormentors was a whole Genoese family of distinction; very fat and sleek, and terribly addicted to the violin.

Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

He bade them also call the tormentors to make ready the instruments of their craft, and await him in the place of punishment.

The World's Desire Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Be this as it may, there is no doubt that the fear, vexation, and anxiety of his life caused his death, and on this account his tormentors were his murderers.

A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

My sober senses, however, in a short time returned, and as the flames blazed up more brightly I saw that my tormentors were a vast number of bats, on whose long quiet retreat I had intruded.

My First Voyage to Southern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847