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
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 Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
For, coming fresh from the fear and the place of torment, he was glad to say anything not to be sent thither again.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
It was evident to him that his employer had consigned him to some distant place of torment from which he could never return.
From Command by McFee, William
The first of these is Gehenna, meaning the "place of torment."
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
