everlasting torment

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For long and lonely hours, that seemed an eternity, he had been tossing in a burning fever upon that disordered bed, until he verily believed himself in a place of everlasting torment.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

There is a wide distinction between everlasting punishment and everlasting torment.

From The Harp of God by Rutherford, J. F. (Joseph Franklin)

If you were threatened with everlasting torment for believing that twice two are four, you could not, by the most tremendous effort of volition, alter your conviction in the slightest degree.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

If she remain immovable and I do not cease loving her, it will be an everlasting torment, and nothing else.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

So we see that at any rate all these texts about "damnation" can no longer be used in proof of everlasting torment and everlasting sin.

From The Gospel of the Hereafter by Smyth, J. Paterson (John Paterson)