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
From early March to the end of June India is indeed turned into a place of torment.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon
But the brave youth stepped forth with an undaunted eye, and a firm tread, to the place of torment.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
A viler wretch than I am has never been borne shrieking through the air by demons to the place of torment.
From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Webb, Archibald
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
