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
They are mostly covered by arches, on which the houses rest; but where they are open, they disclose as fit representatives of the place of torment as the Valley of Hinnom.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James
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
He was inside his Paradise again; and behold, it was a place of torment.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba
Any change would be like going from Hell to Heaven that would take her away from that place of torment.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
