All 15 Uses of
torment
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- They ambled along, stopping now and then to breathe deeply of the smell of Newtown Creek which flowed its narrow tormented way a few blocks up Grand Street.†
Chpt 1tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- To hear him talk, you would think that the horse never slept at night but stood awake in the milk company stable figuring out new torments for his driver.†
Chpt 2torments = causes great mental or physical suffering
- Suddenly he put his head down on his arms and pulled tormented coughing sobs out of his body.†
Chpt 4tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- Her hat was the breast and wing of a red bird tormentingly pierced by two hatpins.†
Chpt 17tormentingly = in a manner that causes great mental or physical suffering
- She believed Mama, yet her eyes kept going back to the tormented effigy.†
Chpt 17tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- This poor child was the nagged one, the tormented one, the one on whom she vented her spinsterly spleen.†
Chpt 19
- As soon as a child received this dubious recognition, the other children turned on him and duplicated the teacher's torments.†
Chpt 19torments = causes great mental or physical suffering
- They were deaf to the piteous pleas of the hordes of tormented children who swarmed before them.†
Chpt 19tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- When they returned to school, they were tormented by their peers.†
Chpt 20
- In that case, she, in turn, would torment those found guilty, forgetting her own hurt at being tormented.†
Chpt 20torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- In that case, she, in turn, would torment those found guilty, forgetting her own hurt at being tormented.†
Chpt 20tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- When, in the night, poor Burt got so tormented that he had to go home, he asked the cop on the beat to ring the Nolan bell three times.†
Chpt 33
- "I give up," shouted the tormented man and went off to his work in the pulp magazine house.†
Chpt 34
- And her conscience bothered her only a little bit when she joined the others in tormenting Mark, the martyr, who didn't know that if he would laugh but once, his troubles in the shop would be over.†
Chpt 43tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- People in the house were tormented almost to death by his incessant fumbling cornet practice.
Chpt 47 *tormented = made to suffer