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
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)
“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
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
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
