All 6 Uses of
torment
in
My Antonia
- It was as if I had let the old man in out of the tormenting winter, and were sitting there with him.†
Book 1 *tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- Ambrosch, Jake said, showed more human feeling than he would have supposed him capable of, but he was chiefly concerned about getting a priest, and about his father's soul, which he believed was in a place of torment and would remain there until his family and the priest had prayed a great deal for him.†
Book 1torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- 'As I understand it,' Jake concluded, 'it will be a matter of years to pray his soul out of Purgatory, and right now he's in torment.'†
Book 1
- I remembered the account of Dives in torment, and shuddered.†
Book 1
- The memory of that supper makes me hungry now; the sight of it then, when I had only a students' boarding-house dinner behind me, was delicate torment.†
Book 3
- Cutter was tormented by the fear that Mrs. Cutter would live longer than he, and that eventually her 'people,' whom he had always hated so violently, would inherit.†
Book 5tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering