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
Yet this was due to no rapture of soul, for—"Lord, I said, restore me to my brethren, that they come not into this place of torment."
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins
One is a place of peace and joy, the other a place of torment and woe.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
How they escaped from the stifling, sloppy, grimy place of torment they could not have told, had the saving of an immortal soul depended upon such telling.
From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Morris, Clara
In 1599 he published his "Explication" of the article "He descended into hell," in which he maintained that Hades means simply the abode of departed spirits, not the place of torment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
