Luther tormented himself with a system of penance, consisting of actual pain, punishments, and expiations.
Luther, it happened, was lying sick of a burning fever, and tormented with thirst, and in the heat of the fever they refused him drink.
On the 27th he told another friend how the night before he had awoke bathed in sweat, and tormented with anxious thoughts, so much so, that had he given way to them he might very likely have fallen ill like so many others.
He now released himself finally from the restraints of those monastic rules, with which, as we have remarked before, he had always tormented himself, besides performing the higher duties of his calling.
If he wished in penitence to be freed from the sins which had tormented him so long, and were a daily burden on his conscience, the means of confession provided by the Church were always ready for him in the convent.
Just at this time, moreover, in March 1536, he had been tormented for weeks by a new malady, an intolerable pain in the left hip.
One James Ashton, of Castleton, who died about a fortnight ago, and who was one of the murderers, was most miserably afflicted and tormented in his conscience.
I would not mind, continued the girl, if he was a handsome and a young man, but to be tormented by such an ugly fellow is insupportable.
Those were days when young men's thoughtstormented them.
A man I used to see in the streets of Oxford and always turned to stare after: a man with big ugly shaped feet and the face of a god--a young tormented god.
Against her own judgment, she had herself been almost tormented into granting her a private audience, from the imprudent vehemence of one of Madame de G.
We hurt each other terribly in this world, but it is in ways that only the power which tormented the perfect man of Uz would incite.
The miller, provoked to be thus tormented by such a little creature, fell into a great passion, caught hold of Tom, and threw him out of the window into the river.
His bed stood in a garret where there were so many holes in the floor and the walls that every night he was tormented with rats and mice.
His mother was so irritated and so tormented by her own conscience that she upset all the cabbage broth into the burning charcoal.
She lived and died in the Catholic Church; yet was tormented and afflicted; was maltreated and abused; and was imprisoned for years by the highest authorities of that church.
Sometimes they tormented me for several days successively, without giving me any relaxation.
Miss Fanshawe's berth chanced to be next mine; and, I am sorry to say, she tormented me with an unsparing selfishness during the whole time of our mutual distress.
Why, had I been Nero himself, I could not have tormented a being inoffensive as a shadow.
I feel somewhat anxious to know, being a little tormented with uncertainty as to how I stand with her.
Remote as was the attic from the street-door and vestibule, yet the ever-tinkling bell was faintly audible here; and also the ceaseless roll of wheels, on the tormented pavement.
When the animal is enraged, its scent is more violent than ordinary, and if tormented so as to make him sweat, that is also collected and serves to adulterate, or at least increase the perfume which is otherwise obtained.
This man was immediately turned away to make room for a third patient, who, in the Irishman's opinion, was only tormented by a little bit of a sprite, who could not withstand his command for an instant.
Others again are agitated andtormented with convulsions.
This new comer said he wastormented by the melancholy vapours.
Methinks that a pleasing kind of freshness, as it were a wet cold napkin, did spread over my hand, which hath taken away the inflammation that tormented me before.
But Hawthorne's splendor of vision and his power of sympathy with a tormented mind do live again in the best of Mr. Huneker's stories.
Between numbers I encountered Berlioz, with whom I exchanged my painful impressions, and I returned home quite tormented over the article I was to write.
Frightened, his soul tormented by doubt, it seemed to him that from under the eighty-five molars, which he snatched hurriedly from the shrieking piano, Astaroth darted his tongue.
Her hat was flung across the stage, and, with her bound hair shaking loose from its high shell comb, she swept into an appalling fury, a tormented human flame, of ecstasy.
His fingers dug red furrows through her flesh, they tormented and outraged her.
But he wastormented in his joy by an agonized pang of remorse.
During the long days and nights of ceaseless inquiry he was ever tormented by the dread lest his children, if living, should look on him as accursed, a blot on their existence.
It was one of the many doubts that tormented her in moments of depression.
The thought tormented him, but it held a strange attraction for him also.
We have Testimonies of the best Witnesses and in Number not a few, That when we asked Rule whether she thought she knew who Tormented her?
Saying it was a sad thing to be so Tormentedby the Devil and his Instruments: A Young-man present in the habit of a Seaman, reply'd this is the Devil all over, Than the Ministers withdrew.
He was a man of considerable mental and physical power, buttormented by hypochondriacal tendencies.
His diaries reveal an inner life tormented by gloomy forebodings, by remorse for past indolence and futile resolutions of amendment; but he could always escape from himself to a society of friends and admirers.
You've followed him everywhere, hunted him like a wild beast, taunted him and tormented him to death!
Three months now they've tormented me and made hell hot for my wife and children, in order to drive us away.
He stood there a minute, looking at his boots, his thumb groping over his face as though he wanted to wipe the tormented look away; then he picked up his portmanteau and went.
Generally he slept like a log as soon as he lay down, but to-day was Sunday, and he was tormented with the thought that life had passed him by.
Coronado’s glittering armor especially made him a shining mark, and he was so tormented with arrows and battered with stones as he sought to ascend that he was wounded and had to be carried from the field.
Now, tormented with the fury of jealousy, he seemed bent on sacrificing the husband to his rage.
As if prompted by an evil spirit, Kitty unconsciously tried and tormented her from morning to night, and no one saw or guessed it unless Mrs. Sterling's motherly heart divined the truth.
But it was very easy to imagine that so much mock passion had a basis of truth, and Lucy evidently tormentedherself with this belief.
David was quite unchanged, though once or twice Christie fancied he seemed ill at ease with her, and immediately tormented herself with the idea that some alteration in her own manner had perplexed or offended him.
He never lacked his bread as Mozart lacked his; he was not, like Beethoven, tormented by deafness and tremblings for the immediate future; he had no powerful foes to fight, for he did not bid for a great position in the world like Handel.
Have youtormented any one into eating more bad berries, Felicity?
Cruelly tormented by such thoughts as these, she dragged herself up and felt her way out into the air and wind, for she could no longer hold out in the gloomy solitude and fearful darkness.
The Contessa's smile, so radiant, so inexplainable, tormented him with a thousand doubts.
That question about Bice's parentage, "English on one side," tormented him still.
