"Inquisitionary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of cruelty obsession in children one would not suspect of any great tendency to animalism. A refined love of making others suffer has led them to vent inquisitionary tortures on insects, and the mania for pulling off the legs of flies and roasting beetles under spyglasses has been gradually extended to drowning mice in cages and seeing pigs killed. Time develops the germ; ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell |
