All 7 Uses of
torment
in
Jane Eyre
- A brief address on those occasions would not be mistimed, wherein a judicious instructor would take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of martyrs; to the exhortations of our blessed Lord Himself, calling upon His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him; to His warnings that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; to His divine consolations, "If ye suffer hunger or…†
Chpt 7
- I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise.†
Chpt 13 *
- Oh, I wish he would cease tormenting me with letters for money?†
Chpt 21
- You were born, I think, to be my torment: my last hour is racked by the recollection of a deed which, but for you, I should never have been tempted to commit.†
Chpt 21
- Oh, Adele will go to school — I have settled that already; nor do I mean to torment you with the hideous associations and recollections of Thornfield Hall — this accursed place — this tent of Achan — this insolent vault, offering the ghastliness of living death to the light of the open sky — this narrow stone hell, with its one real fiend, worse than a legion of such as we imagine.†
Chpt 27
- It would please and benefit me to have five thousand pounds; it would torment and oppress me to have twenty thousand; which, moreover, could never be mine in justice, though it might in law.†
Chpt 33
- I asked of God, at once in anguish and humility, if I had not been long enough desolate, afflicted, tormented; and might not soon taste bliss and peace once more.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering