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
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
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
Cyriacus, in particular, was so famous for his power over evil spirits, that princes in distant lands solicited his assistance to banish the demons to their own peculiar place of torment.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist
A viler wretch than I am has never been borne shrieking through the air by demons to the place of torment.
From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Webb, Archibald
