Raffles on most occasions kept up the sense of having been educated at an academy, and being able, if he chose, to pass well everywhere; indeed, there was not one of his fellow-men whom he did not feel himself in a position to ridicule and torment, confident of the entertainment which he thus gave to all the rest of the company.
I should have made Strickland's marriage a long torment from which escape was the only possible issue.
" I supposed that for some reason or other—and Heaven knows what ingenuity men exercise to torment themselves—Dirk had got it into his head that his wife cared for Strickland, and with his genius for blundering he might quite well have offended her so that, to anger him, perhaps, she had taken pains to foster his suspicion.
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
" "If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate; and though I know it is all very right and necessary, I have often wondered at the person's courage that could sit down on purpose to do it.
No need now to be ashamed of his figure, and to make jokes about it so as to forestall other people's and show he didn't mind it; no need now to be ashamed of getting hot going up hills, or to torment himself with pictures of how he probably appeared to beautiful young women—how middle-aged, how absurd in his inability to keep away from them.
The hours wasted away, and hunger came to torment the captives again.
And you said, 'Don't torment me so—I'll tell!
" "Well, Sid don't torment a body the way you do.
He 'pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down again and I can't hit him a lick.
（） The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Don't torment yourself.
Their torment is real.
I can remember several years ago reading a book where the hero went through several tragedies and at one point in the midst of his pain and torment cried out: "Where is Love?
I can remember several years ago reading a book where the hero went through several tragedies and at one point in the midst of his pain and torment cried out: "Where is Love?
—··, Love is a sweet torment.
Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.
The allegations are the latest torment for the Japanese Olympic organising committee, which has been forced to scrap the late Zaha Hadid's design for the main stadium in Tokyo because the projected costs ran too high, and to tear up the main logo for the games after allegations the design was plagiarised.
