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
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 Lord, John
Was she now dead—and was this the place of torment?
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram
“I could never have imagined God’s earth could be transformed to look like a place of torment, and yet this countryside suggests one of the hells in Dante’s ‘Inferno.’
From The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor by Vandercook, Margaret
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
