put to the question

“The Anvil-Breaker is searching for the Damphair too. He is hunting down the Drowned Men. Blind Beron Blacktyde was taken and put to the question. Even the Old Grey Gull was given shackles. How will you find the priest when all of Eu- ron’s men cannot?”

The state Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, refused to put to the question to a vote.

Would she be put to the question?

Twenty-four hours after the accused has been put to the question, he shall be asked if he persists in his declarations, and if he will ratify them.

Rome cannot admit the principle of international right in this case, without giving up one of her own principles, the Inquisition, according to whose laws foreigners can be arrested, imprisoned, and put to the question.