What is "torques"

Usage examples of "torques".

But it had taken more than four generations of oppression of men, and the use of silver torques that could kill a man at the whim of any woman with Talent.

He had been able to sense the purplish feel that underlay the pteridons, that strange similarity to the crystal that had powered the torques of the Matrial.

The thread was not the normal brown or tan or yellow, black or black shot with green, or even black shot with purple or pink, or the dual pink and black threads he had seen with the torques of the Matrial.

Alucius slipped both into the space that looked like a window without glass and watched as a white-haired man with one of the ubiquitous silver torques took both.

Yes, you and many others wear torques, but those torques also free you from hunger, from want, and they allow you to walk anywhere at any glass in Madrien without fear and without danger.

Alucius knew what he had already seen, but it troubled him that everyone in Madrien seemed to accept the idea that men had to wear torques so the land could be free from poverty and danger.

Once they were on the raised high road, Alucius realized that the thin pink Talent-threads from the torques led to the long stone dwelling, not in a way that he could have proved, even though he felt it.

A wry smile crossed his face and vanished, as he considered that he was acting as if there were something he could do when he was yet a captive of one of those torques, and when he had still to regain full control over his Talent.

Matrial and the torques, the whole west coast of Corus was a slaughterhouse.

It might not even be that way if the torques vanished, now that people have seen the good.

Without the torques, the only way to stop them is with more muscle, and that ends up with people getting killed.

There was trouble with the torques this afternoon with one of the new captives.

The seeming juxtaposition of those sounds with the now-useless torques of the Matrial and the fact that life was apparently so peaceful that many folk had yet to discover that the torques were useless brought home to Alucius how much of life rested on belief and illusion.

Matrial died, and when she did, the silver torques that could kill a man instantly no longer worked.

In more physical terms, any disturbance that causes one generator to pull away from the other is opposed by corrective electrical currents that immediately begin circulating, which set up torques that cause the speeds of the generators to become more nearly equal.