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
Abdu’l-Bahá, this world of dust has become a cage, and a place of torment; and to the unrestrained nightingales it is only a prison, narrow and dark.
From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre
It was evident to him that his employer had consigned him to some distant place of torment from which he could never return.
From Command by McFee, William
He was inside his Paradise again; and behold, it was a place of torment.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba
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
