scavenger's daughter

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noun

an instrument of torture that doubled over and squeezed the body so strongly and violently that blood was brought forth from the ears and nose: invented in 16th-century England.

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Origin of scavenger's daughter

1555–65; scavenger, alteration of the name of its inventor, Leonard Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower of London under Henry VIII

Words nearby scavenger's daughter

scavenge, scavenge pump, scavenger, scavenger beetle, scavenger hunt, scavenger's daughter, scavenge stroke, Sc.B., Sc.B.C., Sc.B.E., Sc.D.

How to use scavenger's daughter in a sentence

Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.
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Like most Jewish mothers, Myerson thought her daughter could do better.
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
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This is about no longer accepting that—as so many others have stated—a family would rather have a dead son than a living daughter.
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I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.
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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
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The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
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He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
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Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.
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She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
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