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to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- And with this act of will, my senses emerged from the torment.Part 1 (90% in)
- It struck me suddenly what consolation it would be to know Satan, to look upon his face, no matter how terrible that countenance was, to know that I belonged to him totally, and thus put to rest forever the torment of this ignorance.Part 2 (5% in)
- Because there would be no rest in damnation, could be no rest; and what was this torment compared to the restless fires of hell?Part 2 (6% in)
- But even in these moments, when the ship slept and all the world slept, neither heaven nor hell seemed more than a tormenting fancy.Part 2 (7% in)
- I was sitting back in the chair, my mouth full of the taste of her, my veins in torment.Part 3 (19% in)
- ' But even as I said these words I felt my old conviction waver; I felt that torment I'd felt last night when she had taunted me about mortal passion.Part 3 (39% in)
- A decanter of white wine stood next to him, and though he was feverish and weak from last night, his skin was florid and his heat and fragrance were a torment to me.Part 3 (40% in)
- 'I love you still, that's the torment of it.Part 3 (50% in)
- And then she shut her eyes and trembled all over with some terrible vexation, some awful torment.Part 3 (51% in)
- She never dreamed what the mortal man in me was, how tormented I was by the blood I'd only just drunk.Part 3 (56% in)
- She never dreamed what the mortal man in me was, how tormented I was by the blood I'd only just drunk.Part 3 (59% in)
- Perhaps it was not possible to sustain the torment I'd experienced when I saw Claudia's burnt remains.Part 3 (96% in)
There are no more uses of "torment" in Interview with the Vampire.
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