The gibbet and the fearful "estrapade" had not deterred them. ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)
Where are the defenestrations that shall break their bones, where is the estrapade that shall grind their joints? ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)
If the reformers condemned D'Andelot's concession, Paul the Fourth, on the other hand, regarded his escape from the _estrapade_ as proof positive that not only Henry, but even the Cardinal of Lorraine, was lukewarm in the defence of the faith! ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)
Henry manifested no desire to retain long as a prisoner, much less to bring to the _estrapade_, the nephew of the constable, and a warrior who had himself held the honorable post of ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)
Will the terror of the _estrapade_ quench the burning courage of a sect which has spread over the whole of France, if it could not stifle the fire when first kindled at Meaux and at ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)
The Bishop of Paris, after harshly advocating the rekindling of the extinct fires of the estrapade, was compelled to hear in return some plain words from Admiral ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)
He did not want to look at the rigid legs, at the feet hanging down nervelessly, with their bare toes some six inches above the floor, to know that the man had been given the estrapade till he had swooned. ❋ Unknown (1904)
It would take Sotillo a day to give me the estrapade, and try some other things perhaps, before he puts ❋ Unknown (1904)
And we may even get the estrapade, too, or worse -- quien sabe? ❋ Unknown (1904)
It would take Sotillo a day to give me the estrapade, and try some other things perhaps, before he puts a bullet through my heart -- as he did to that poor wretch here. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
He could ill afford to forsake a religion which allowed him so pleasantly to compound for his amatory indulgences by the estrapade [414] and a zeal for orthodoxy. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)
[414] The estrapade was an infernal machine introduced by Francis into ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)
_estrapade_ had done its bloody work for the last quarter of a century, will not be astonished to read that the punishment of death is affixed to the secret or public profession of any other religion than the Roman ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)
For the common custom of the Salic law is such, that the first incendiary or firebrand of sedition that flays the cow and wipes his nose in a full concert of music without blowing in the cobbler's stitches, should in the time of the nightmare sublimate the penury of his member by moss gathered when people are like to founder themselves at the mess at midnight, to give the estrapade to these white wines of Anjou that do the fear of the leg in lifting it by horsemen called the gambetta, and that neck to neck after the fashion of Brittany, concluding as before with costs, damages, and interests. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)
Can I leave them, without a word of warning, to the torture, to the rack, to the slow death of the estrapade? " ❋ S. Levett-Yeats (N/A)
"Why did Sotillo give the estrapade to this pitiful wretch? ❋ Unknown (1904)
Perhaps, if you had not confirmed Sotillo in his madness, he would have been in no haste to give the estrapade to that miserable Hirsch. " ❋ Unknown (1904)
