"Third degree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of trees, brush, and even rails, enclosed, on this portion of the flats, quite fifty acres of land; and Indian corn, oats, pumpkins, peas, potatoes, flax, and several other sorts of seed, were already in the ground. The spring proved dry, and the sun of the forty-third degree of latitude was doing its work, with great power and beneficence. What was of nearly equal importance, the age of the pond had prevented any recent accumulation of vegetable matter, and consequently spared ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... by the Mocha Kid, who entered out of the night at that instant with the announcement: "Well, they got him! Rock found him, and he denies it, but they've got him at the Barracks, puttin' him through the third degree. I don't mind sayin' that Frenchman needed croakin', bad, and they'd ought to give Phillips a vote of thanks and ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... "There ain't a man livin' that can! Go on with your third degree if you want to!" he sneered. "But for every blow you strike—for every hour you keep me awake when I'm dead for sleep—you'll be sorry, Colonel! You'll be sorry when you think of what might have ...
— The Diamond Cross Mystery - Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story • Chester K. Steele
... that," he said, mildly. "I wanted to put those men through the third degree! We should have held them up and put ...
— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson
... a grafter, I admit it. There ain't hardly anything I wouldn't do from smashing a bank downwards, to turn a dishonest penny. But, gents, I'm short of the necessary nerve, inclination, lack of morals, and general ungodliness, to take on murder in the first, second, or third degree." ...
— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace
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