"Inquisition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... played fitfully. The darkness, the silence, the suggestion of mystery, the ancient buildings with their leaded windows and their carved facades, the steel-capped soldier, all made me feel that I had stepped back five hundred years and was in the Furnes of Inquisition times. ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell
... must bear with it in Spain, for the Holy Inquisition must always be at liberty to inspect ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... and the excellent temperature of their air. They are seven in number, Lancerota, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, Geomero, Hiero or Ferro, and Palma. Grand Canary is far distant from the others, and contains 9000 inhabitants, being the seat of the bishop, the inquisition, and the royal council which governs all the seven islands. In Teneriffe is the famous mountain called Terraira, or the Peak of Teneriff, supposed to be the highest in the world, and which may ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr
... Hertford "to see the state of the Queen," and he remained there for a month. Medicines were brought from London. Judging from the slight indications as to remedies employed, among which were herbal baths, she died of some cutaneous malady. Her Inquisition states that her death took place at Hertford, August 23rd, 1358; but the Household Book twice records that it was on the 22nd. Fourteen poor men watched the corpse in the chapel at Hertford for three months, and in December the coffin (the entire cost of which was 5 pounds, 9 shillings, ...
— In Convent Walls - The Story of the Despensers • Emily Sarah Holt
... Week the programme posted up at the door concluded with these words "Indi Cinematografo," and there were always three parts to the show. First there was cruelty—victorious tyrants forcing conquered queens to drink their lovers' blood, or some horror of the Inquisition, or the barrel of Regulus bumping down-hill and coming to smash at the bottom. The second part was a modern comedy carried on in Parisian drawing-rooms or on board an electric launch on an American river. The third part was always a wild farce and usually contained an impossible chase. ...
— Castellinaria - and Other Sicilian Diversions • Henry Festing Jones
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