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He painfully shinned up trees, wormed out to the end of a branch, and dropped as far beyond his trail as he might, so as to break it. This would throw off the dogs, if dogs were used; yes, and it would fool the Indians, too. That night he slept in a hollow log. By morning his foot had swollen to the size of a bucket. He suffered torment. He had no food with him and was afraid to fire his gun.
He was in great fear all night lest he should have done wrong in adopting this treatment; but was greatly relieved next morning on finding his patients comparatively comfortable, while those whose wounds had been treated in the usual way were writhing in torment.
0 God of Peace, remember, and in thy mercy keep The hearts that still can pity, the eyes that still can weep, Amid the shame and torment, the ruins and the graves, To theirs, the land of freedom, from ours, the land of slaves, What answer can we send them? We can but kneel and pray: God grant God grant to them, at least, a happy Christmas day.
I was tempted to content myself by receiving some false opinion, as that there should be no such thing as the Day of Judgment, that we should not rise again, that sin was no such grievous thing, the tempter suggesting that if these things should be indeed true, yet to believe otherwise would yield me ease for the present. If I must perish, I need not torment myself beforehand. Judas!
I could give you a wide choice, you know, for when a man stands high enough ... in fact, you would find me reasonable you might have anybody you liked, rich or poor, dark or fair. John Storm had been sitting in torment, and now he rose to go. "No, uncle," he said, in a thicker voice, "I shall never marry. A clergyman who is married is bound to life by too many ties.
"Some pend'loque has brought her beauty to this pass, but she must suffer and also his time will come, the sulphur, the torment, the worm that dieth not and no Abraham for parched tongue misery me! They that meet in sin here shall meet hereafter in burning fiery furnace." The cackle of the apprentice rose above the whining voice. "Murder, too don't forget the murder, master.
But at last about ten months after her marriage something occurred between her and Phoebicius something which stood like a wall of brass between him and her; and as this something had led to his banishment to the remote oasis, and to his degradation to the rank of captain of a miserable maniple, instead of his obtaining his hoped for promotion, he began to torment her systematically while she tried to protect herself by icy coldness, so that at last it came to this, that the husband, for whom she felt nothing but contempt, had no more influence on her life, than some physical pain which a sick man is doomed to endure all through his existence.
"If he does, that will be sixty dollars that he will have paid out this week, for his own books, for the privilege of giving them away. But as this is the last hospital in town that he has not contributed to, tell them yes, and then set the dog on them!" I said, savagely. "You poor thing!" said Bee. "It's a shame the way people torment you." Billy crowded past his mother, and climbed into my lap.
There make haste, go!" She took her by the shoulders and pushed her towards the door, but when she left her outside, kissed her. Périne had no sooner gone than Jean came out and flung himself angrily on a chair. "I shall stand this no longer. I give you notice of my determination, Marie. You have her here, I believe, solely to torment me. She is not to come here any more, those are my orders.
There was nothing for it but to acquiesce; and to endure, as best he might, the torment of Quita's clear tones close behind, alternating with her husband's bass; both voices pitched too low to be articulate, Desmond followed with Mayhew, while Maurice and Elsie, and the customary string of coolies, brought up the rear.
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