place of torment
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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
For, coming fresh from the fear and the place of torment, he was glad to say anything not to be sent thither again.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Greek word for the place of departed spirits, translated in the English Bible and, also, in the Creed by the word "Hell," not, however, the place of torment.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
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
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)
