Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes.

As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]

The same profile of extraction found by the propolis in this study was also identified by other natural samples using supercritical CO 2 such as for obtaining tagitinine C from Tithonia diversifolia [77 ], peach (Prunus persica) [78 ] and for cocoa beans [79 ].

The imperialist power practiced primitivization on its colonial possessions.