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
They are mostly covered by arches, on which the houses rest; but where they are open, they disclose as fit representatives of the place of torment as the Valley of Hinnom.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
The horrors of that night have been splendidly painted by Macaulay in his essay on Clive, and the place of torment, called the Black Hole of Calcutta, is synonymous with suffering and misery.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
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 William McFee
Was she now dead—and was this the place of torment?
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
