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The UN needs to take the lead in stopping Kashmir’s torment.
Worldwide, nearly one million people have been infected by the virus, about which much remains a mystery – including how long it will torment us.
But Golenishchev was embittered and tormented by it, while Vronsky could not deceive and torment himself, and above all could not become embittered.
There was no position that did not cause him pain; no moments of forgetfulness; no part of his body that did not hurt and torment him.
'Alexis, I am in torment here!
A sportsman's jealousy was beginning to torment Levin.
In the garden they came upon a man weeding a path, and without any longer considering that the man saw her tear-stained eyes and his excited face, or that they looked like people running away from some calamity, they went on with rapid feet, feeling that they must speak out and convince each other, must be alone together, and thereby both escape from the torment both were experiencing.
I don't wish to torment you, I don't!
Are we not all flung into the world only to hate each other, and therefore to torment ourselves and others?
At the point that I cannot imagine a situation in which life would not be a torment; that we all have been created in order to suffer, and that we all know this and all try to invent means of deceiving ourselves.
But his torment was especially aggravated by the moisture.
He could eat, and all the same he was groaning with torment.
And in this exasperation of his torment, tears swelled in M. Hennebeau's eyes, and broke in burning drops on his cheeks.
This complete and interminable night, always of the same blackness, was his chief torment.
In spite of the torment of the darkness, he would come to hate the hour for returning to the settlement.
His eyes were moist, as in this cry there broke out the secret desire of the vanquished, the refuge in which he desired to lose his torment for ever.
Besides, he dreamed of a prison as of a refuge in the midst of the torment of his defeat; but they did not trouble him, and he dragged on his wretched hours, not knowing how to weary out his body.
There was now such calm within him, so complete a cure of his doubts, that he persisted like a man saved by chance, who has at last found the only harbour from his torment.
That dress with the narrow folds hid a distracted fear, of whose torment those chaste lips said nothing.
But that delicious exaltation, at once your charm and your torment, has prevented you from understanding, adorable woman that you are, the falseness of our future position.
His heart was flooded with joy, not because he loved Madame de Renal, but because a fearful torment was now at an end.
Two hours of waiting were two centuries of torment.
But, so that the children shall not waste any time, their lessons will be sent to you every day, for you to correct.''Certainly,' M. de Renal added in a most bitter tone, 'I shall not allow you more than a week.'Julien read in his features the uneasiness of a man in cruel torment.
I understand, this man's ambition has been in torment for fifteen years.'
It will make me wise for all the rest of my life.''Was I not speaking the truth?' thought Julien; 'why does the love that I felt for that madwoman torment me still?'
CHAPTER 33 The Torment of the WeakIn cutting this diamond, a clumsy jeweller removed some of its brightest sparkles.
My daughter is not to be a Duchess!'Whenever these two ideas presented themselves in such clear terms, the Marquis was in torment, and his impulses were uncontrolled.
He paid her back, unconsciously, the torment that she had often inflicted on him.
CHAPTER XIXNo longer then perplex the breast- When thoughts torment, the first are best; 'Tis mad to go, 'tis death to stay!Away, to Orra, haste away.
He 'pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down again and I can't hit him a lick.
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