Upon overhearing that their captors were not sure about the meaning of the empty sheet in the packet, and their intent of torturing her to gain information, Jane decided to pretend amnesia and started to converse in French only.

The government, thereafter, started a full swing against Baggara, who hold to their agreements by jailing, torturing or killing or forcing them to refrain from any agreements.

Around the age of twelve, Watts claimed that this was when he started to fantasize about torturing and killing girls and young women.

Shriner was also cited by PETA in their campaign against animal abuse as an example of notorious criminals that started torturing animals long before turning to children.

‘ Agnihotra ’ is a sacred tradition started by the ‘ Rishis ’ of ancient India.

When Lord Shiva got smallpox, Rishis started a homa and Puthiya Bhagavathi is appeared from homakunda, she cures Shiva's disease and sent to Earth.

He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.

Morgan filled the fire box with wood again, then started supper and set the table.

We haven't slept together since we started.

As he started to slump over, another warrior swung him onto his horse.

He started to run but Oso's shot caught him on the wing.

He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

It hadn't started out that way.

She started to brush the dirt and bits of leaves off her clothes.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.

Vastly relieved, Summers nodded and started toward the door.

He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.

He started to reach for his gun, but apparently thought better of it.

Curt caught him flush on the nose with a blow which started at the floor.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Nor could they stop and find out about all that had happened until they made circle, tended the cattle, tethered the horses, gathered fuel, carried water, and started their cooking fires.

Hitching his cartridge belt around, Pat glanced upward briefly at the Palace and started that way with Cobb at his side.

Looking the setup over, Stevens started coolly for the rear of the place.

He started to struggle up, heaving desperately.

He started to return it.

At the prearranged time, Greg started the engine and taxied out.

No sooner had I started drinking than the driver started zigzagging the truck.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

Habré continued to face armed opposition on various fronts, and was brutal in his repression of suspected opponents, massacring and torturing many during his rule.

During this period, Siam decimated the Lao capital, capturing, torturing and killing the Lao king Anuwongse.

With Stilicho ’ s fall, Olympius moved against all of his former father-in-law ’ s allies, killing and torturing key individuals and ordering the confiscation of the property of anyone who had borne any office while Stilicho was in command.

In the wake of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in January 2009, Hamas has been accused of systematically rounding up, torturing and summarily executing Fatah supporters suspected of supplying information to Israel.

" A Human Rights Watch report found that the Contras were guilty of targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination ; kidnapping civilians ; torturing and executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat ; raping women ; indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian homes ; seizing civilian property ; and burning civilian houses in captured towns.

* 1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.

The Chinese Imperial Government imprisoned and executed multiple Portuguese envoys after torturing them in Guangzhou.

* 1620 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing ( b. 1576 )

The members of these caravans had, in vain, besought his mercy by reciting the truce between the Muslims and the Crusaders, but he ignored this and insulted their prophet Muhammad before murdering and torturing a number of them.

* Between 1983 and 1985, Americans Charles Ng and Leonard Lake videotaped their torturing some of the women whom they would later kill.

* In 2008, a video ( known as " 3 Guys One Hammer ") surfaced on the Internet showing Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuck, known as the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs, torturing and killing a 48-year-old Ukrainian man.

" They took over the microphone to announce that medical professionals who prescribed such therapy for their homosexual patients were complicit in torturing them.

He was widely known for his paranoia and his obsession with torturing people who disappointed him in any way, which included tardy girlfriends, friends who disagreed with him and, most notoriously, Iraqi athletes who performed poorly.

Under Jack's rule, the baseness of human nature is unleashed, and he initiates a period of inter-tribal violence, punishing other children, inciting the frenzy that leads to the murder of Simon, and torturing the twins until they submit to his authority.

The worst offender is a sadistic janitor holding a family hostage and torturing them inside their home.

* May 19 – Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of murdering and torturing Sylvia Likens and is sentenced to life in prison.

* March 17 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest ( injuries caused by torturing ) ( b. 1576 )

This was the simplest available construction for torturing and killing the condemned.

Pinkerton says " Farewell, flowery refuge of happiness and of love, her gentle face will always haunt me, torturing me endlessly.

He never really lives because he is always torturing the life out of himself to clutch at wealth and honors which, even if he wins them, will prove to be but glittering illusions.

The horrific nature of Scheherazade's situation is magnified in Stephen King's Misery, in which the protagonist is forced to write a novel to keep his captor from torturing and killing him.

Legal defenses like the Gay Panic Defense allow for more lenient punishments for people accused of beating, torturing, or killing homosexuals because of their orientation.

He argues that it is difficult to accommodate the idea that " we have real moral knowledge " and that statements such as ' torturing children is wrong ' are more than " simply social conventions of the societies within which they are uttered " within an atheistic or naturalistic world view.