place of torment
Example Sentences
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After graduation, Adams went to teach school at Worcester, a "place of torment" where nobody had any ideas and everybody voiced them vigorously.
From Time Magazine Archive
One is a place of peace and joy, the other a place of torment and woe.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
Allegorical demons stand watching around, and when he has confessed the whole atrocity of his purposes, they seize and carry him off in a fiery car to the place of torment.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
And yet," answered Zita, "every living being in that place of torment is enamoured of life.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole
He was inside his Paradise again; and behold, it was a place of torment.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba
