torment

• His unjust ways are reproved by a stranger who takes him to the place of joy and the place of torment, and shows him other wonderful things such as the youth in the Breton tale is permitted to behold. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• With a saint's capacity for self-torment, Madeleine wielded the scourge over her own back until the blood came. —  Democracy, an American novel
• But Bill was satisfied; he had the instincts of a connoisseur in torment, and the Dago's face was now a mask that looked as if it had never smiled It was Dan that spoiled and undid the afternoon's work. —  Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories
• Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• The things within him burn and torment, and keep him company; he will not let them go or even quiet them by promises of what he will achieve when this duty is done and off his hands. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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