1 Except for the ever-present torment that Ashley might be killed, the war interested her not at all, and nursing was something she did simply because she didn't know how to get out of it.
2 Suspense, worry, sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.
3 For an eternity, it seemed, they were in the midst of flaming torment and then abruptly they were in semidarkness again.
4 Being what he was, Rhett would naturally want to torment and insult her as much as possible to pay her back for past slights and for her recent attempted trickery.
5 And yet he would torment and insult her and deny that such was his intent, should she accuse him.
6 But, added to her stunned sense of loss at Frank's death, were fear and remorse and the torment of a suddenly awakened conscience.
7 Once she had planned how she would torment him should he ever propose.
8 If it wasn't for the knowledge that his relations with Melanie were, necessarily, those of brother and sister, her own life would be a torment.
9 These calls were an especial torment to Scarlett but she dared not refuse to go with Melanie.
10 She knew he was avoiding her, knew that her constant presence in his house, at Melanie's inescapable invitations, was a torment to him.
11 I remembered the account of Dives in torment, and shuddered.
12 The memory of that supper makes me hungry now; the sight of it then, when I had only a students' boarding-house dinner behind me, was delicate torment.
13 She did not tell half of her story at home, because she saw it was a torment to Jurgis, and she was afraid of what he might do.
14 He would lie and scream for hours, almost in convulsions; and then, when he was worn out, he would lie whimpering and wailing in his torment.
15 He spent half the night lying unconscious, and the balance moaning in torment, with a blinding headache and a racking thirst.