| No, U.S. attorneys did not use the thumbscrew or the rack, but they employed torture all the same. |
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| With a large thumbscrew, you can adjust the lever pivot in or out and hence vary the leverage ratio. |
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| It is possible that the thumbscrew, the rack, or physical mutilation such as ear-cropping would not have been considered cruel by our forebears. |
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| The V1000 is essentially tool-less, and removal of the side panels require a simple twist on the thumbscrew and unlatching the locking mechanism. |
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| If you're like most Linux users, you never put all the screws back in, so rest assured that this case stays together with just the thumbscrew. |
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| A simple thumbscrew secures the cord in place making sure that you have correct length as not to hinder your play. |
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| How do we stop from sliding down the slippery slope till we reach the oubliette where lurk the rack, the branding-iron, and the thumbscrew? |
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| Yes, we even have a tray for the front fan, a 120 mm mounting that has a spring-loaded thumbscrew. |
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| In the Weaver-based sight pictured here, windage is adjusted by turning two, locking, Allen-head windage screws opposite the thumbscrew. |
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| One thumbscrew serves to keep the case closed, but the latches make it unnecessary, unless you're transporting the computer. |
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| I'm coming up a bit short this month and the credit card company says that they will have to resort to the thumbscrew and hot irons strategy if I don't cough up. |
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| In actual fact, the Hutchinsons were the side of the family that invented the thumbscrew, while we ourselves are a particularly gallant and honourable lot. |
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| And it is the most incredibly dreadful and evil prolonged pain delivery device ever conceived by man since the thumbscrew or the fiction of L. Ron Hubbard. |
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| Would you be happy if the witnesses whose testimony is used against this cleric had given evidence extracted only by thumbscrew? |
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| One is not bound to regard torture as only present in a mediaeval dungeon where the appliances of rack and thumbscrew or similar devices were employed. |
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| The removable motherboard tray is secured with a single thumbscrew. |
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| Simply remove the thumbscrew for the card-slot blank you wish to replace with a card, remove the blank, install the card into the motherboard, and secure with a thumbscrew. |
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| The base is inserted into the top of the carrying handle and cinched down with a thumbscrew that goes through a hole in the top of the carrying handle. |
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| Ergonomically shaped thumbscrew for smooth and effortless turning. |
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| But under torture by thumbscrew, she stuck to her story. |
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| Loosen a captive thumbscrew at the rear of the server. |
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| Later models of the 19th century, however, were equipped with a thumbscrew that permitted the thin blade to be adjusted with respect to the thicker blade. |
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