Tormented

Examples

• This idea pursued me, and tormented me at every moment from which I might otherwise have snatched repose and peace. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I could swear to this hand anywhere; but how you have tormented me to-night, said Meyler. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I feel somewhat anxious to know, being a little tormented with uncertainty as to how I stand with her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Why, had I been Nero himself, I could not have tormented a being inoffensive as a shadow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She felt tormented and dark. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thirst also, violent and parching, the result of the sea-water I had drank, and of the exhaustion of my frame, tormented me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Their Graces were both in town, and tormented Worcester hourly. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Still she was gnawed as by a neuralgia, tormented by his potential absence from her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At length, the steady ticking of the undisturbed clock on the wall tormented me to that degree that I resolved to go to bed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I saw in this that I, too, was tormented by a perversion of ingenuity, even while the prize was reserved for me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• For my part I can neither eat nor sleep, and both my father and uncle admit that they have tormented me till I am seriously ill. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• WILL a man partake, as has been tormented out of his five senses by an everlasting dustman with his head tied up! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We can imagine the wretchedness of a curious mind, tormented by the craving for travel and knowledge, cooped up in these islands of empty romance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And if they commit a fault which ye are not inclined to forgive, then sell them, for they are the servants of the Lord, and are not to be tormented. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He meant to please, and he tormented me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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