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Sentences ending with torment

And what was this vast fluttering over his head, this million-voiced discord round him, like the buffetings and cries of spirits welcoming another to their torment? [11]
And when the sense of physical weariness came back, that seemed to dull the acuteness of his spiritual torment. [4]
There are lots of such words and they are a great torment. [5]
And yet if my easily persuadable brother governed at Alexandria, I believe the shrewd priests might succeed in stamping him as a worshipper of that magnified schoolmaster, who punishes his untutored brood with fire and torment. [10]
Else the bond is water, and the spirits come in the night, and take you to the million years of torment. [11]
Why have you invented this new and intolerable torment? [10]
To forget--to forget--to indemnify himself for future seasons of sacrifice, dulness, self-conquest, torment. [10]
Besides, some excitement helps me through this torment. [10]
Certainly he would have envied neither of them if he had been aware, as the reader is aware, of the guilty secret that drew them together and must be forever their torment. [4]
She tried to beguile the alarm that made her pulses beat so quickly, and the heart-sickness that ached like a wound, by music and singing; but this only added to her torment. [10]

Short sentences using torment

My constant torment was thirst. [9]

More example sentences with the word torment in them

Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! [6]
The Colonel bowed with that courtesy and respect which distinguished him, and Mrs. Brice left them to go back into the room of torment, and watch by the sergeant's pallet. [9]
Along the streets were places of torment and torture exceedingly ingenious and disagreeable. [4]
Pleasure became her torment, for the sweetest wine is repulsive when it has been tasted by impure lips. [10]
Such was Jethro's torment that morning as he saw her drive away, the minister in the place where he should have been, at her side, and he, Jethro Bass, as helpless as though he had indeed been in the pit among the flames. [9]
The years of torment and suffering were written there in characters not to be mistaken. [9]
It was better to walk than to sit alone in torment, to be gnawed by that Thing from which she had so desperately attempted to escape, and failed. [9]
Desperately she tried to meet his gray eyes, in vain, desperately she tried again, fought herself as feeling and thought resurged in torment, and she succeeded, and then she knew. [13]
Every now and then it seemed as if the path came to an end, but each time it found an outlet, and went on--as endless as the torment of the wayfarers. [10]
And something of the agony of the woman's soul as she lay in torment, facing the wall, thinking of her son under the same roof, of a life misspent and irrevocable, I pictured. [9]
To see him, talk to him, feel his eyes on her now that her whole soul was overflowing with those dreadful, wicked temptations, was a torment of joy and terror. [2]
And not only she, but all whom she loved and who were her accomplices, should atone for the torment of this hour. [10]
Out of his own secret and the torment of it he divined that she, too, had a secret and the keeping of it was torturing her. [13]
Captain Martin seconded Newport in this; Smith protested against it; he thought Newport was no refiner, and it did torment him "to see all necessary business neglected, to fraught such a drunken ship with so much gilded durt. [4]
Yesterday I tormented myself and suffered, but I would not exchange even that torment for anything in the world, I have not lived till now. [2]
Painfully I turned my face to the wall in a torment of humiliation--I had called her by her name. [9]
Thus passed a long day of torment, the hottest that even the men could remember; and they on the whole suffered least from it, though they toiled at the oar without ceasing and with wonderful endurance. [10]
Your worst torment is to come, mine has already been with me. [11]
He had been in torment in the past, but he had refused to see that he was in Hades. [11]
But the game in Rudolstadt had become a veritable torment, which destroyed the husbandmen's hopes of harvests. [10]
My mind was in a torment concerning him. [9]
Perhaps Laura enjoyed his torment, but she soothed him with blandishments that increased his ardor, and she smiled to herself to think that he had, with all his protestations of love, never spoken of marriage. [5]
Time passed without his perceiving it, but a torturing desire for food began to torment the starving man. [10]
He had all he wanted: the thought of his wife which had been a continual torment to him was no longer there, since she was no more. [2]
Their immediate torment had so crushed them that, incapable of anticipating the future, they had ceased either to fear or to hope; but now they could rejoice in thinking of the start they had gained over their pursuers. [10]
It was also granted to me to look into the place of torment, and the things I saw there were too awful. [10]
She had never glossed over any wrong-doing of her own; but her open and truthful nature was just as little inclined to the torment of self-reproach when she was not absolutely certain of having committed a fault. [10]
Hereupon I likewise felt a deep pang of unspeakable torment, albeit I knew from experience that for such ills there was no remedy but perfect rest. [10]
You will not exist for me, you will not be even a memory; but even against your will I shall always be part of you: of your brain, of your heart, of your soul--the thought of me your torment in your greatest hour. [11]
And you said, 'Don't torment me so--I'll tell! [5]
Now if we could only succeed in preventing Hadrian observing the heavens merely during the third hour after midnight we should preserve him from trouble and anxiety, which will torment and spoil his life. [10]
Susan would ever be true to us; she would be ready to share our poverty with us, and the unresting up-stairs and down had long been a torment to her old feet. [10]
Beaton could not be aware of all that dark coil of circumstance through which Dryfoos's present action evolved itself; the worst of this was buried in the secret of the old man's heart, a worm of perpetual torment. [8]
The hours wasted away, and hunger came to torment the captives again. [5]
It was grand and touching, though he several times struck the strings so violently that their loud clanging and sighing and throbbing answered each other like the wild wailing of a soul in torment. [10]
A wife is a torment, if you can't feel at ease with her. [4]

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