wrack

There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril." At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: "Why is there such a scarcity of fodder?

The walls of the room were lined with racks in which were hundreds of straight and hooked swords, javelins, and daggers.

"Could racks or wheels kill me so painfully as Sophia's--I cannot bear the dreadful sound.

Finally, he insisted upon having a bowl of rack punch; everybody had rack punch at Vauxhall.

An I rack him to death and he confess not, it will peradventure show that he had indeed naught to confess -- ye will grant that that is sooth?

ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men's cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck, exclaimed: There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod.

This I will proceed to describe; but as you may think the description a little too coarse, I ask you to suppose, Socrates, that the words which follow are not mine.-- Let me put them into the mouths of the eulogists of injustice: They will tell you that the just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound--will have his eyes burnt out; and, at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled: Then he will understand that he ought to seem only, and not to be, just; the words of Aeschylus may be more truly spoken of the unjust than of the just.

At the far side of the room a rack held the swords and firearms of the men.

Hans takes Gretel, ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack, and binds her fast.

He belonged to that race of martyrs who, indissolubly wedded to their political convictions as their ancestors were to their faith, are able to smile on pain: while being stretched on the rack, he recited with a firm voice, and scanning the lines according to measure, the first strophe of the "Justum ac tenacem" of Horace, and, making no confession, tired not only the strength, but even the fanaticism, of his executioners.

She never suspected that the exercise books and new songs which she found in the rack were put there for her especial benefit, and when he talked to her about music at home, she only thought how kind he was to tell things that helped her so much.

In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.