Which preposition to use with tormented

of Occurrences 226%

Munching cloves, the aroma of which ladens the air all around him, Mr. BUMSTEAD contemplates her with a calmness which would be enthralling, but for the nervous twisting of his features under the torments of a singularly adhesive fly.

with Occurrences 77%

It is not extremely heroic for a man tormented with sorrow to go to a gambling hall and then to a dance hall to seek relief.

to Occurrences 43%

But they do not satisfy us: they are become a torment to me.

in Occurrences 38%

The defenders of the works were packed in caves under the parapets; the gunners lay dead in heaps on the batteries; the wounded could not be removed by day, because the communications with the rear were now searched throughout by the fire of the allies, and so lay where they fell, in torment in the sun beside the more fortunate slain.

for Occurrences 27%

Rosa had no torments for him now.

by Occurrences 13%

For twenty miles we discoursed about the properties of steam, probabilities of carriages by ditto, till all my science, and more than all, was exhausted, and I was thinking of escaping my torment by getting up on the outside, when, getting into Bishops Stortford, my gentleman, spying some farming land, put an unlucky question to me,What sort of a crop of turnips I thought we should have this year?

into Occurrences 10%

It seems it was sultry weather, piping-hot; the steed tormented into frenzy with gad-flies, long past being roadworthy: but safety and the interest of the house he rode for were incompatible things; a fall in serge cloth was expected; and a mad entrance they made of it.

on Occurrences 6%

" It was the elderly teacher whom Tommy had tormented on the train!

from Occurrences 6%

Certain it was that, without sullenness, he would give in to long fits of silence; and his wide, honest eyes were heavy again, as if the snow-blindness of the winter had its analogue in a summer torment from the sun.

about Occurrences 3%

There was nothing I did not think of or accuse him of,especially, the last and worst sin of breaking off our engagement at the eleventh hour!and I, who had suffered silently, secretly, untold torments about that name of his,nobody, no man, could ever guess how keenly, because no man can ever feel as a woman does about such things!

as Occurrences 3%

He resolves to quit his self-inflicted torments as of no avail.

at Occurrences 3%

But however that might be, her feelings for the time remained confused, and the only clear thing was her desperate torment at being now and forever childless, a torment which goaded her on to seek another's child with the wild idea of making that child in some slight degree her own.

like Occurrences 3%

If you were, did you ever feel any torment like that?

than Occurrences 2%

Whose high abuse shall more torment than blows.

without Occurrences 2%

I wrung my handsthen I often prayed at night to God: 'Only let me live through this one torment without going mad.'

during Occurrences 2%

The same friend later wrote as follows: 'Unfortunately there was no official post-mortem examination of her body, and none of those inquiries by which she had been so tormented during life were instituted after her death.

out Occurrences 1%

Indeed I was perhaps in less torment out of it.

over Occurrences 1%

"The domestic animals were in a state of torment over that which they had to face.

with Occurrences 1%

I am not, I will assure you, any of those Occasional Writers, that, missing preferment in the University, can presently write you their new ways of Education; or being a little tormented with an ill-chosen wife, set forth the doctrine of Divorce to be truly evangelical.

after Occurrences 1%

'Twas for a politic end, and to this purpose the old poets feigned those elysian fields, their Aeacus, Minos, and Rhadamanthus, their infernal judges, and those Stygian lakes, fiery Phlegethons, Pluto's kingdom, and variety of torments after death.

about Occurrences 1%

I haven't been watching youI've been too tormented about myself to think much of anyone elsebut now

than Occurrences 1%

Nobles rose in order to regain power and influence; generals rose because they objected to the permanent pressure from the central administration and their supervision by controllers; men of the people rose as popular leaders because the people were more tormented than ever by forced labour, generally at a distance from their homes.

before Occurrences 1%

It was the very king who had put one of his subjects to this death of awful torment before whom Nehemiah had to appear, and of whom he had to make a request.

beyond Occurrences 1%

After this, natural courage would inspire me to resist to the last drop of blood, and sooner die than suffer myself to be taken by boorish, rascally Dutchmen, who had arts to torment beyond death itself.

between Occurrences 1%

Now I began to give myself up to fresh serious examination, and there came flocking into my mind an innumerable company of my sins and transgressions, my soul also being greatly tormented between these two considerations: Live I must not, die I dare not.

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