tortures of the damned
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“Gilda went through the tortures of the damned and at the end, I felt robbed,” Wilder said of Gilda Radner’s death.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2016
"Except for the presence of the doctor and the nurse he died, as he had lived, alone, surrounded by every care and comfort, and suffering the tortures of the damned."
From Time Magazine Archive
For months, since leaving the battlefields of France, ten regiments of Silidar cavalry had sweated and suffered the tortures of the damned in the valley of the Dead Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
He worried about "poor Bob" Haldeman, who was "totally selfless and honest and decent" but because of Watergate was "going through the tortures of the damned."
From Time Magazine Archive
They went on carrying that ten39 or twenty or thirty pounds of flesh and all the time suffering the tortures of the damned just in order that they might keep it.
From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)
