For some such cause belike Homer feigns Titius' liver (who was enamoured of Latona) to be still gnawed by two vultures day and night in hell, "for that young men's bowels thus enamoured, are so continually tormented by love."

The flies appear to torment these unwieldy monsters most cruelly, their eyes and nostrils being stuffed full of them.

why, when she cryes out Solus Rex me facit miseram, she sayes in the Hypocronicall language that she is so miserably tormented with the wind-Chollicke that it rackes her very soule.

Certain thieves from Scotland torment me grievously at this time, burning my land and preying on my cities.

In the beginning of the breaking up, while Mercy was at her wits' end, with the unwonted perplexities of packing the whole belongings of a house, her mother had tormented her incessantly by bringing to her every few minutes some utterly incongruous and frequently worthless article, and begging her to put it in at once, whatever she might be packing.

Domini felt that he was secretly tormented.

The fear that unjust suspicion should light upon himself, or those connected with him, has, I dare say, tormented him sorely.

In some places it would be difficult to penetrate more than a mile in the day; during which time the traveller would be perpetually tormented by noxious insects, and in constant dread of beasts of prey.

King of Spain, wept at an Auto da Fé, because he saw so many fellow creatures inhumanly tormented.

* ADVANTAGES OF LOQUACITY A very pretty woman, who was tediously loquacious, complained one day to Madame de Sevigné, that she was sadly tormented by her lovers.

The incivilities to which I am exposed would give me less pain, were they not aggravated by the tears of my sister, whom the young ladies are hourly tormenting with every art of feminine persecution.

Shrapnel merely and uselessly torments.

For all this Kâma justly torments you.

she began singing, and then hung over him, tormenting him lovingly while he read.

Tiny delighted in teasing Scotty, and her varied modes of mildly tormenting him and of stirring him to pursuit or to retaliation were as interesting as they were amusing.

"Poor Alfred, I regret to know, torments himself needlessly.

Who came no further than his Father sent him, And did fulfil but what he did command him; Who prayed for them that proudly did torment him For telling truly of what they did demand him; Who did all good that humbly did intreat him, And bare their blows, that did unkindly beat him.

"We shall be glad to be away from Winchester, for while Peregrine Oakshott torments slyly, Sedley Archfield loves to frighten us openly, and to hurt us to see how much we can bear, and if Charley tries to stand up for us, Sedley calls him a puny wench, and a milksop, and knocks him down.

Honours, applause, and wealth these torments soothe; Till jealousy, contrasting his foul stain With virtues eminent, by spur and rein Drives him to slay, steal, poison, break his oath.

She has bin sure tormented with that furie which cla[pt] me on my shoulder.

The recitation begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.

Paige and Marye came in from the glass extension where their father was pacing to and fro, smoking his bedtime cigar, and their mother began her invariable running comment concerning the day's events, rallying her children, tenderly tormenting them with their shortcomingsundarned stockings, lessons imperfectly learned, little household tasks neglectedshe was always aware of and ready at bedtime to point out every sin of omission.

The mosquitoes, which the rain had kept at bay through the night, now began to make themselves amends, and to torment us unmercifully.

No more unspeakably torments my heart, Yet bearable alone through thee, my being All thou art not is idle, stale and dying, Colourless, withered, dead,save where thou art!

ay, that it would be everlasting: one feels, in a word, that real shame and deserved disgrace is verily and indeed an everlasting torment.