Stoker fills his book with sexual situations people only dream of. ... There was a deliberate voluptuousness, which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He also exposed them to the elements and to wild animals, and built screw trapdoors to drop wretches on cunningly located stakes below. ... Turkish sources that state on one occasion he smeared salt and honey on the soles of the captives" feet and allowed animals to lick them for indefinite periods of suffering. ...

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