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
This place of torment was a large, one-storied, wooden building which stood in a by-street facing a green and grassy piece of land adjacent to the Red Tape Office.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
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 Charles Ebert Orr
From early March to the end of June India is indeed turned into a place of torment.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
But the brave youth stepped forth with an undaunted eye, and a firm tread, to the place of torment.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
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