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
He was inside his Paradise again; and behold, it was a place of torment.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton
Then Sandy found his way back from his place of torment and he strode to the two in the middle of the room.
From A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
Abdu’l-Bahá, this world of dust has become a cage, and a place of torment; and to the unrestrained nightingales it is only a prison, narrow and dark.
From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre
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
