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  • But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.   (source)
    torment = cause suffering to
  • Up to this moment jealousy had not been one of his torments; now it suddenly gnawed at his heart.   (source)
    torments = something causing great mental suffering
  • What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying   (source)
    tormented = caused great mental suffering
  • How tormented, isolated, and strange.†   (source)
  • With no further words, Liesel followed him, and they successfully avoided Rudy's tormentor—straight into the path of another.†   (source)
  • A noise came from her mouth and slowly, her first breath of grief grew into a tormented cry.†   (source)
  • The man was astonished and apologized for having tormented him.†   (source)
  • Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew.†   (source)
  • Back at school, a bully named Derrick Dunne used to torment Stanley.†   (source)
  • Type two: the former victims of type ones, who see every Unwind as the kid who tormented them all those years ago.†   (source)
  • "He liked to tease me and torment me," she recalls.†   (source)
  • He feigned toughness, but was secretly tormented.†   (source)
  • Seven rows hack, Dana Matherson was tormenting a sixth grader named Louis.†   (source)
  • Only the throbbing veins in her tightly clasped hands told of her torment.†   (source)
  • Ender did what he always did when Peter tormented him.†   (source)
  • In front of it were two yellow buses, our own tormentor and one that brought students from the other direction, and loitering students awaiting the knell of the morning bell.†   (source)
  • "I don't believe I'm obliged to tell you," I said, to torment her.†   (source)
  • Plus, mercifully, there was breeze enough in the open to dissipate the mosquitoes, which had progressed from an annoyance to a torment as.†   (source)
  • The sense of wandering in the spiritual wilderness tormented her.†   (source)
  • He paused, tormented by the memory.†   (source)
  • I am continually tormented by the thought of Cassie's final moments, of the cold panic she must have felt as a gun was held to her head.†   (source)
  • Hades let the worst monsters out of Tartarus to torment Thalia.†   (source)
  • Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.†   (source)
  • He was a smart, sensitive child who was tormented by what he'd done and what he'd been through.†   (source)
  • For the second night in a row, Thomas went to bed with the haunted image of Ben's face burned into his mind, tormenting him.†   (source)
  • You can imagine how the idea would torment him.†   (source)
  • The officer bends forward and looms over the miniature city like some tormented gargoyle.†   (source)
  • The other boy would hesitate before tormenting smaller kids.†   (source)
  • What he means by that, he says, is that Danny used to torment his mother by holding his breath until he turned blue and passed out.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes to the bloodletting, but that did not stop the torment.†   (source)
  • IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating than anything she had ever imagined with her conscious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were red, but mostly she had that tormented look of someone striving to get through the next few minutes.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Lilly's parents told her Norman just got out of Bellevue and that if she sees him she's not to torment him anymore, because he's just a poor obsessive-compulsive with possible schizophrenic tendencies.†   (source)
  • From that very first day in kindergarten, Peter experienced a daily barrage of taunting, tormenting, threatening, and bullying.†   (source)
  • At night, that boathouse had the reputation of a cheap motel; but all I ever managed was a long game of darts, or sometimes my date and I would sit on the dock, withholding any comment on the spectacle of the hard and distant stars until (finally) Noah or Simon would arrive to rescue us from our awkward torment.†   (source)
  • Dida, Pitaji's mother, was the only one in the family to make a fuss about my staying on in school, but she spent most months of the year in an ashram in the holy city of Hardwar and didn't torment us with visits too often.†   (source)
  • Understanding the dismissal, her tormentor grunted and released her.†   (source)
  • He was tormented by the idea that he was hiding here while his people, both Jews and peculiars, were being slaughtered.†   (source)
  • "He could end his torment," Jaime said.†   (source)
  • Behind his pious calm, she saw a man tormented by personal demons.†   (source)
  • I can almost hear the sizzle of Gale's tormented skin meeting the snow mixture.†   (source)
  • It is their way of tormenting.†   (source)
  • In that way she will elude her wicked tormentor and break its evil cycle of birth and death.†   (source)
  • They were very close, which meant they were ceaselessly tormenting each other with boasts and secrets.†   (source)
  • At dinner, an older boy named Vic Morgeroff had tormented Reynie for using the word "enjoyable" to describe the book he was reading.†   (source)
  • Tell me what I need to know and save her from torment.†   (source)
  • In addition to tormenting me, showing off their fancy clothes seemed to be the main purpose in life for Aggie and her clique.†   (source)
  • The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots.†   (source)
  • It was beginning to fade, the presence of her animal tormentor, and now she was able to arrange two pillows against the headboard in order to sit up.†   (source)
  • Tormented by the silence and the refusal the assembly broke into a chant.†   (source)
  • Of course, we don't torment them here in Connecticut.†   (source)
  • It tormented him and his children and his children's children.†   (source)
  • Just to torment me with his perfection, he also insisted on being one of the smartest.†   (source)
  • Never once had he raised his hand in anger, and I began to torment myself with the memories of all those years I'd wasted blaming him.†   (source)
  • Tormented by what was happening, yet unable to stop it, I hovered around and watched the apartment vanishing piece by piece, like a bee watching its hive being destroyed.†   (source)
  • Thank goodness summer vacation is almost here; one more week and our torment will be over.†   (source)
  • She was tormented by her past, haunted by the loves lost and damaged and ruined, by the evils she had inflicted on others and that others had inflicted on her.†   (source)
  • For a week or two he was in torment, never satisfied; even when he had plenty of fish and rabbit or foolbird to eat he thought of the things he didn't have.†   (source)
  • As the boys spread out in anticipation, I saw Arthur H.—one of his biggest tormentors—a few yards behind Tommy's back, begin mimicking him, doing a daft version of the way Tommy was standing over the ball, hands on hips.†   (source)
  • Thoughts of ice storms and vicious animals tormented him.†   (source)
  • Although Amy was the most important person in his life, he couldn't bring himself to talk to her about the doubts that tormented him.†   (source)
  • Alyss got into fights and traded insults with her tormentors, often returning home scraped, bruised, and humiliated.†   (source)
  • Whispers of morning, whispers of night, children without faces tormenting with a word, descending like a torrent of leaves, like the blaze of dawn.†   (source)
  • Kate seriously enjoyed tormenting her older brother about the entire matter, and he would reward her taunting by stomping off to the tent trailer, all bluster and gripe.†   (source)
  • But my mind continued to torment me, and every effort to clear away the terrible thoughts was in vain.†   (source)
  • No sense tormenting myself.†   (source)
  • He saw her life was hard, full of misfortune and torment at the hands of demons and bad men.†   (source)
  • You ought to feel flattered, really, considering that Hatsumomo goes to so much trouble just to torment you.†   (source)
  • Initially they were conducted clumsily, as if the perpetrators felt ashamed of this new means of tormenting people, and they had not had any practice anyway.†   (source)
  • When he was little, he was always tormenting Noris, always getting into things.†   (source)
  • No matter how many times I tried to convince him I was fine, he continued to torment himself.†   (source)
  • For his father had a point; the only person who didn't take Gogol seriously, the only person who tormented him, the only person chronically aware of and afflicted by the embarrassment of his name, the only person who constantly questioned it and wished it were otherwise, was Gogol.†   (source)
  • Of course it wasn't torment twenty-four hours a day being a Jew.†   (source)
  • It was the fall semester of 1972, his third year at Juilliard, and Nathaniel had been tormented by months of confusion, anxiety and hallucinations.†   (source)
  • And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.†   (source)
  • They took the elevator to spare his foot the torment of the grand stairway, but he did so with reluctance, for he admired the artistry in the iron scrollwork of its balustrades and the immense dome of iron and glass that flushed the ship's core with natural light.†   (source)
  • They had no idea about the physical pain, the mental anguish, the loss, or the dark hole of depression that tormented me—before they honored me that way.†   (source)
  • He stamped me with a belief in justice, then drenched me in culpability, and I wouldn't wish such torment even on a mosquito.†   (source)
  • She wondered when he had last gotten a full night's sleep, one without tormenting dreams or long periods of dark wakefulness, listening to revels that had only become audible — and visible — to her in the last couple of days, as the Overlook's grip on the three of them tightened.†   (source)
  • As they sat they would on occasion hold hands, and on occasion kiss, and once in a while feel the rekindling of an otherwise diminished fire and go to their bed and torment each other's bodies, never having sex, but never needing to, not anymore, following a different ritual that still resulted in release.†   (source)
  • Nor should they let them-selves be tormented by concern for other people's woes.†   (source)
  • Because of cell culture, he said, the world was "on the threshold of a hopeful new era in which cancer, mental illness and, in fact, nearly all diseases now regarded as incurable will cease to torment man."†   (source)
  • And with this act of will, my senses emerged from the torment.†   (source)
  • Turgid is my torment!†   (source)
  • As a patriot, being alive far from his home was more of a torment than living in a gulag.†   (source)
  • I thought of the dying cricket trying to escape from his tormentor with neither the will nor the physical condition to do so.†   (source)
  • He looked at her from high in the saddle and immediately felt the urgent desire that had been tormenting him for so many months.†   (source)
  • None of the Fugees had heard of a gang called "the Africans," and several thought that any declaration of membership in such a gang was little more than a bluff meant to frighten away the boys' American tormentor.†   (source)
  • For a short time I tormented myself by asking, Am I getting into a new realm of things that others haven't yet discovered?†   (source)
  • Why did I feel the need to comfort my tormentor?†   (source)
  • For the most part, it wasn't like in teen movies where the jocks pick on the nerds and the older kids torment the younger ones.†   (source)
  • His mother, who had urged him with so much fervor to enjoy his torment, became concerned for his health.†   (source)
  • They didn't matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings.†   (source)
  • Harriet Vanger seemed to have dissolved into thin air, and Henrik Vanger's years of torment had begun.†   (source)
  • Along the river the tormented cry of a lonely goddess filled the valley.†   (source)
  • Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.†   (source)
  • She and Bram torment each other incessantly.†   (source)
  • She pushed her scars directly into our tormentors' faces, while I disappeared into my cottage cheese carcass like a scared turtle in a soft shell, watching her wage our war of the outcasts alone.†   (source)
  • Albert's face was awful with defeat; Lencho's was a torment of disappointment.†   (source)
  • I didn't like the idea of someone else having the pleasure of tormenting my girl.†   (source)
  • The descent was its own torment.†   (source)
  • The preacher says that today yes even on this very day his word will free us from the torments and distractions of the mind.†   (source)
  • The eyes that had been on me lifted two by two, and the soldier never came back to finish his personal brand of torment.†   (source)
  • It's like a cool bath after a fever sweat, helping to soothe the itch of all those unanswerable questions I just can't be tormenting myself with anymore.†   (source)
  • More likely it was just another way of tormenting people, giving them something extra to worry about.†   (source)
  • It was a torment to him to waste a day of his careful self-training, but he stayed with her on that other beach, which now seemed a place for small children, a place where his mother might lie safe in the sun.†   (source)
  • If our complaints have a focal point, it would have to be the TV set, where the outer torment lurks, causing fears and secret desires.†   (source)
  • This tormented self-consciousness caused Vivaldo to fear that their moment might, after all, come to nothing.†   (source)
  • It's a story in a part of the encyclopedia called "The Book of Golden Deeds," which is filled with tales of martyrs and brave children and people going through torment and terror.†   (source)
  • At this point, the hard part of primate research began to torment Gene Johnson.†   (source)
  • In developing countries, tormenting the illiterate is usually risk-free; preying on the educated is more perilous.†   (source)
  • Except, of course, I'll have to deal with Mom's wrath, Scott's inquisition, Leigh's hurt [real or imagined], Heather's delight at my torment, a possible [make that highly probable] confrontation between all of the above and my father, the troll, and his miserable fairy, Linda Sue.†   (source)
  • "No," I say, my voice filled with torment.†   (source)
  • It tormented the Calangute, making it pitch and yaw and creak, wanting nothing more than to swallow it whole.†   (source)
  • Other imagined fears tormented them as well, for there was plenty of time to think as the dark days drifted slowly by.†   (source)
  • Torment, yes.†   (source)
  • She couldn't tell when they changed places and the second weight, then the third and fourth, dropped on her—it was all one continuous hacksawing of torment that kept her eyes screaming the only word she was fated to utter again and again for the rest of her life.†   (source)
  • As the years went by, the particular torments from which the bird delivered him altered; others-older children, his father, a faithless girl, a sergeant he'd known in the Army-replaced the nuns, but the parrot remained, a hovering avenger.†   (source)
  • You will do the actual tormenting; I will only spectate.†   (source)
  • But your fetters torment me.†   (source)
  • But Rob seems to be picking at the scars, even though his white, doctor's son demeanor couldn't be further from that of tormentors of the past who were always in his face.†   (source)
  • They abused and tormented him, calling him Ojo Parado.†   (source)
  • Best to help such boys have their moment of fun, before life's torments snatched them.†   (source)
  • She had no words to tell her tormentor that the borrowing trait in her tribe which had earned them the name of the borrowing Passmores proceeded not from avarice, which ate into Pap Himes's very marrow, but from its reverse trait of generosity.†   (source)
  • You asked for her number, then had all your friends torment her with obscene phone calls until her parents got the number changed.†   (source)
  • I'm sitting on my horse blanket in the corner, brushing away the flies that have been tormenting me all morning, flitting from scab to scab.†   (source)
  • Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.†   (source)
  • It torments me until I cave, until the pressure inside is so unbearable that I have to talk to someone or risk explosion.†   (source)
  • We need take no more note of it than of a war between two African kingdoms in the fourteenth century, a war that altered nothing in the destiny of the world, even if a hundred thousand blacks perished in excruciating torment.†   (source)
  • God said this From this moment on, He will punish horribly anybody who torments a bum who has no connections!†   (source)
  • Remember Terry Malloy, the tormented former boxer played by Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront?†   (source)
  • Every fourth day or so Hungry Joe came crashing in like a man in torment, hoarse, wild, and frenetic, if he had been unlucky enough to finish his missions again and was flying the courier ship.†   (source)
  • Her older sisters helped raise her and her older brothers tormented her, especially William.†   (source)
  • I met again the poor girl I had tormented.†   (source)
  • He felt her heart thundering under his lips, heard her moan as he used his tongue to torment.†   (source)
  • Things only got worse, his conscience tormented him more and more, until the night before he and Rosa were to get married and move to the bungalow on the cliff, Litvinoff got up in a cold sweat, snuck out in the middle of the night, and dug up his burden once and for all.†   (source)
  • Third and Fourth Years will torment you from the second floor.†   (source)
  • Locked in the apartment with my tormentor, I dared no argument.†   (source)
  • In the instant I turned to look, my tormentor has vanished.†   (source)
  • When she came on, her voice was different: remote but freer, as if she were in a less tormented state.†   (source)
  • I would do it just to torment him.†   (source)
  • Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.†   (source)
  • There's not much I can do to ease her torment when she's like this.†   (source)
  • But the thing was eating up his mind, of course, and the torment had become almost unbearable.†   (source)
  • He nearly killed the schoolmaster's cat, which had found him at liberty in the kitchen and tried to torment him.†   (source)
  • I followed him into the street and, when the Hadfields were out of hearing, made bold with the question that was tormenting me.†   (source)
  • It's a very simple yet very extravagant life I would gladly exchange a year of torment for.†   (source)
  • It is stalking an ocean, rounding the curve of the earth, to crush its tormentor.†   (source)
  • Pain that was unending, unyielding, and could only be measured by peaks and valleys of torment.†   (source)
  • I'd like to discuss what torments you.†   (source)
  • When I approach, the leather-armored auxes, who usually delight in tormenting slaves, barely notice me.†   (source)
  • And it did hurt my feelings a little that Josh insinuated that I had worn a really sensuous outfit just to torment and tease him—which I did not, by the way!†   (source)
  • Chris turns and flashes a tormented look at me.†   (source)
  • For the briefest of moments he nearly burst out laughing; he had been presented with his exit visa from Zurich, and instead of recognizing it, he was wasting time tormenting himself.†   (source)
  • Celia pieces together his story from the torments he relives in delirium, between fevers and chills and a painful catarrh.†   (source)
  • The beast passed from sight around a corner, its cries finally fading into a hideous, tormented laugh like that of a wounded hyena.†   (source)
  • Here the problem had been to escape the torment of memory.†   (source)
  • And yet, she was a good soul, tormented immeasurably and destined to suffer forever in a body that was a fortress against love, an impregnable glacis.†   (source)
  • She sat, watching-on the glistening pavement of a dark alley-the shadow of an unknown torment.†   (source)
  • As a scared American prisoner of war in Vietnam, I was tied in torture ropes by my tormentors and left alone in an empty room to suffer through the night.†   (source)
  • Save us from our tormentors.†   (source)
  • We three girls were nearly paralyzed from our physical torment, yet our trial had barely begun.†   (source)
  • His spine and crotch were in torment.†   (source)
  • He would feel around on the table and look at Granpa and Granma, and say, "Now where in devil's torment is my glasses?†   (source)
  • And now it is Odin who lies writhing in torment.†   (source)
  • The first was the endless moaning of the wind, as though the land itself was continuously groaning in torment.†   (source)
  • More than anything, he was tormented by the possibility that the crash had not been an accident, that Michelle and Chrissie and Nina died not at the whim of fate but by the hand of man.†   (source)
  • You suddenly notice that all of his friends are wild, bad kids, the kind that hold lighted firecrackers until the very last second, or torment the neighborhood animals.†   (source)
  • A good many of my relatives from this generation seem to have tormented the church sexually.†   (source)
  • Set in motion now set in motion To destroy To kill Objects to work for us objects to act for us Performing the witchery for suffering for torment for the still-born the deformed the sterile the dead.†   (source)
  • The Civil War will then drag on for years, a nightmare that torments the president.†   (source)
  • Fearing a confrontation that Dr. Bassiouni might hear about, Hisham would accept the slights in silence, or, if his tormentor went too far, would direct at him a sad and reproachful smile.†   (source)
  • Lou turned to look at her tormentor.†   (source)
  • I described to him in detail everything that had happened between us, including the look of torment and hatred on Junior's face the night I went to his house.†   (source)
  • I'd actually accused her of being with Lucas, whom I was certain had been tormenting her over the past weeks, all out of my jealousy over this friend of hers.†   (source)
  • I knew everyone in the church could tell how tormented we both were.†   (source)
  • End of mime, at which point, the wail of a woman in torment and OPHELIA appears, wailing, closely followed by HAMLET in a hysterical state, shouting at her, circling her, both midstage.†   (source)
  • Since I was born a McLean and not a St. Croix, I was not tormented by the formidable demons of the city that cried out in disengaged voices for conformity from its sons and daughters.†   (source)
  • The change would certainly be some relief from the vile inactivity that had tormented him in the last months; however great the awkwardness, it might be better than a week-end in the echoing, empty aircraft carrier with only his own thoughts and memories for company.†   (source)
  • Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time!†   (source)
  • In Maine: "I'm tired of living in a cold barn with the wind whistling through, tired of the torment of little taxes and payments for this and that.†   (source)
  • And in the vague tree-shadowed light the barn became a barn where a boy who hated the smell of cows was forced to clean the stinking stalls, where a tormented boy was flogged for turning on his tormentors.†   (source)
  • When the weather turned cold, the trip upriver became torment.†   (source)
  • As she staggered with the bus's movement my lack of gallantry tormented me.†   (source)
  • The 8TH JUROR stands alone for a few moments and we know that this is the problem that has been tormenting him.†   (source)
  • Then know that I did but bring you here to this place to torment you, and that you are correct-I spit upon your Accelerationism, and I have already numbered your days.†   (source)
  • But my torment on Eleventh Street was not fated to be prolonged.†   (source)
  • The torment and guilt—the torment of having the loved one go, the guilt of being the loved one gone—comes into my fiction as it did and does into my life.†   (source)
  • RACHEL seems tormented, but helpless.†   (source)
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