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
Intoxicated with joy at the near approach of her deliverance, Clara threw her arms affectionately around the youth and cried, 'with you out of this place of torment, dear Alf!
From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Velde, Carl Franz van der
Now in all his trouble he is thinking of his five brothers "lest they also come to this place of torment."
From The Gospel of the Hereafter by Smyth, J. Paterson (John Paterson)
But I am not fearing the place of torment, David.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
And yet," answered Zita, "every living being in that place of torment is enamoured of life.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole
