place of torment
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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
When, therefore, we confess in the Creed that our Lord "descended into Hell," we do not mean that He entered the "place of torment," but the "place of departed spirits" or Hades.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
The Greenlander's hell is a place of torment from cold; the Arab's, a place of torment from heat.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
How they escaped from the stifling, sloppy, grimy place of torment they could not have told, had the saving of an immortal soul depended upon such telling.
From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris
Cyriacus, in particular, was so famous for his power over evil spirits, that princes in distant lands solicited his assistance to banish the demons to their own peculiar place of torment.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
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