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
Greek word for the place of departed spirits, translated in the English Bible and, also, in the Creed by the word "Hell," not, however, the place of torment.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
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 Alger, William Rounseville
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
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)
