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torment
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The Grass is Singing
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But she knew she could not easily ask, and bring that heavy tormented look on his face.†
p. 69.8 *

tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
He returned to the house preoccupied and bitter, and snapped at the houseboy, who temporarily represented the genus native, which tormented him beyond all endurance.†
p. 157.7
"I tell you," he would say, glaring at her from hot, tormented eyes, "I can't stand them much longer."†
p. 158.5
And through her torment she could hear his voice, firm and kind, like a father commanding her.†
p. 173.3

torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
But he did not come immediately, and after a few minutes' waiting she went to the dim bedroom where Dick lay motion less, in a tormented jumble of limbs.†
p. 185.1

tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
Then her face, from being tormented, became slowly blank and indifferent.†
p. 214.6
It was a torment to her, in that momentarily pitiless clarity, to see herself.†
p. 224.1

torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
She groaned because of the strain, lifted in puzzled judgment on herself, who was at the same time the judged, knowing only that she was suffering torment beyond description.†
p. 224.5

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