After many failed resistances and torturous years under the whip, many slaves began to change their ways.

Musicians and surgeons both train for many unrelenting and often torturous years to be able to deliver a performance as close to perfection as possible.

And yet his soul felt as helplessly bound as it had been for six long, torturous years.

My lord, if anyone deserves any happiness after your torturous years of marriage to Brook, it's you.

All around the metropolitan area, it was a strange and in many ways torturous year for managers and coaches.

Truth, as we learned from eight torturous years under Bill Clinton, is in the eye of the beholder.

It had been eight torturous years since he had competed in the Olympics.

He spent three torturous years in the Class A Rookie League, where he pleaded to be sent home "about 50 times."

"Tell me of my revenge so that I may survive these torturous years of waiting."

She had waited long enough--six torturous years dreaming of him, aching for him.