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
She had made of his home a place of torment, of his marriage a curse, and all this that she might revenge herself on him for his father's unscrupulous treatment of her family.
From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
The first of these is Gehenna, meaning the "place of torment."
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
Then Sandy found his way back from his place of torment and he strode to the two in the middle of the room.
From A Son of the Hills by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
“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
