Crossword-Solution: DAMIENS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Damiens, who had stumbled, was instantly seized and dragged to prison, where a convocation of expert torturers exhausted their ingenuity in the attempt to extort a confession implicating the Jesuits, a conspiracy of Huguenots, etc.

They singed off his skin by shreds, they wrenched out his teeth and finger-joints, they dragged him about at the end of a rope hitched to a team of stout horses, they sprinkled him from head to foot with acids and seething oil, but Damiens never uttered a sound till his dying groan announced the conclusion of the tragedy." The apparent indifference to the pain of a major operation is sometimes marvelous, and there are many interesting instances on record.

The police were very active about the royal abodes, especially since the fatal deed of the regicide Damiens.

The execution of the plot is still deferred for the want of a Damiens sufficiently sanguinary to undertake the task.

The lifted axe, the agonising wheel, 435 Luke’s iron crown, and Damiens’ bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own.