tortures of the damned
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“Gilda went through the tortures of the damned and at the end, I felt robbed,” Wilder said of Gilda Radner’s death.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2016
"Except for the presence of the doctor and the nurse he died, as he had lived, alone, surrounded by every care and comfort, and suffering the tortures of the damned."
From Time Magazine Archive
For months, since leaving the battlefields of France, ten regiments of Silidar cavalry had sweated and suffered the tortures of the damned in the valley of the Dead Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
He worried about "poor Bob" Haldeman, who was "totally selfless and honest and decent" but because of Watergate was "going through the tortures of the damned."
From Time Magazine Archive
But in doing so, he invested death with a new horror infinitely worse than the fabled tortures of the damned.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
