Torch in example sentence

In fine, all the duennas smacked him and several others of the household pinched him; but what he could not stand was being pricked by the pins; and so, apparently out of patience, he started up out of his chair, and seizing a lighted torch that stood near him fell upon the duennas and the whole set of his tormentors, exclaiming, "Begone, ye ministers of hell; I'm not made of brass not to feel such out-of-the-way tortures."

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What we're seeing is more of a passing of the torch from human gatekeepers to algorithmic ones.

Imagine I were to stroke your child's arm with this feather, and their brain [was] telling them that they were feeling this hot torch.

The worst part was that she had allodynia, the medical term for the phenomenon that I just illustrated with the feather and with the torch.

If we can get under that heavy self, light a torch of awareness, and find our essence, our connection to the infinite and every other living thing.

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