All 15 Uses of

torment

in

Frankenstein - 1831 version

When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.†
p. 27.6

tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering

Her victory was announced by an unusual tranquillity and gladness of soul which followed the relinquishing of my ancient and latterly tormenting studies.†
p. 43.8 *

tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering

He meant to please, and he tormented me.†
p. 69.3

tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering

You come to us now to share a misery which nothing can alleviate; yet you presence will, I hope, revive our father, who seems sinking under his misfortune; and your persuasions will induce poor Elizabeth to cease her vain and tormenting self-accusations.†
p. 79.9

tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering

Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!†
p. 90.9

torments = causes great mental or physical suffering

This was the forest near Ingolstadt; and here I lay by the side of a brook resting from my fatigue, until I felt tormented by hunger and thirst.†
p. 105.7

tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering

I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, 'I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.'†
p. 144.9

torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering

This idea pursued me and tormented me at every moment from which I might otherwise have snatched repose and peace.†
p. 167.1

tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering

I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.†
p. 173.1

tormentor = someone who causes great mental or physical suffering

I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.†
p. 173.6

torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering

I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.†
p. 176.7

Sometimes I entreated my attendants to assist me in the destruction of the fiend by whom I was tormented; and at others I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and terror.†
p. 181.6

tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering

I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.†
p. 201.2

torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering

Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me.†
p. 206.5

torments = causes great mental or physical suffering

But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.†
p. 222.6