The doubt on my mind was dispelled—not a pretext left for my own self-torment.
Charity listened with a greed of self-torment like a fanatic penitent.
She has much of your absurd sensitiveness; self-torment is one of her vices.
The poor fellow was in agonies of self-torment at the thought.
He now must wander in self-torment, seeking and finding not.
Thus, in the first place, he will be secure from inward reproaches and contests, from vacillation and self-torment.
But for a girl brought up like Christabel it will mean disenchantment—doubt—perhaps a lifetime of jealousy and self-torment.
She would only have had a needless fright, to see her mother, haggard with self-torment, by her bedside at that hour.
It may be a mere whim of self-torment, or it may be spontaneous yielding to a genuine liking for the life he is living.
I could no longer rest when this most ingenious process of self-torment began again.
