54 examples of hell-fires in sentences

Anguish like hell-fire ran through my frame.

"Masteran I am slain this night, think ye I must burn in hell-fire remembering these same notches?" "Nay, for surely God is a very merciful God, Roger.

"And," quoth frowning Walkyn, "I would that Pertolepe's rank carcass smoked with thee!" "Content you, my gentle Walkyn," nodded the archer, "hell-fire shall have him yet, and groweth ever hotter against the daycontent you.

The unbelievers end their lives in Hell-fire; or, rather, there is no end, for the punishment as well as the reward are everlasting.

The New Testament deals very little in appeals ad terrorem; and it would be well if some, who fancy that they follow it, would do the same, and by abstaining from making 'hell-fire' the chief incentive to virtue, cease from tempting many a poor fellow to enlist on the devil's side

"If it's my last breath, Sharkey, I tell you that you are a bloody rogue and miscreant, with a halter and hell-fire in store for you!" "There's a man of spirit, and one of my own kidney, and he's going to make a very pretty death of it!" cried Sharkey.

The odor was also connected with negro protracted meetings in Hooker's Bend, and the Harvard man remembered a lanky black preacher waving long arms and wailing of hell-fire, to the chanted groans of his dark congregation; and he, Peter Siner, had groaned with the others.

He is a Christian merely for fear of hell-fire; and if any religion could fright him more, would be of that.

what fruitless questions about the Trinity, resurrection, election, predestination, reprobation, hell-fire, &c., how many shall be saved, damned?

And so for the most part it is with them all, many of them, in their extremity, think they hear and see visions, outcries, confer with devils, that they are tormented, possessed, and in hell-fire, already damned, quite forsaken of God, they have no sense or feeling of mercy, or grace, hope of salvation, their sentence of condemnation is already past, and not to be revoked, the devil will certainly have them.

"Helen Repentant too Late" Hell-fire Dick Hemans, Mrs. Henderson, Cottle's Monody on

"Damnation, hell-fire, and the restthe most permanent and vital thought of all those creeds, since it was applied to the majority of the worldbroke loose again, for there was no restraint to hold it back.

'Now, this I call fame, and of somewhat more agreeable kind than that of Dante, when the women in the street found him out by the marks of hell-fire on his beard.

Why, the first great Secessionist would doubtless have preferred to divide Heaven peaceably, would have been willing to send Commissioners, must have thought Michael's proceedings injudicious, and could probably even now demonstrate the illegality of hell-fire to any five-year-old imp of average education and intelligence.

That rosary was of famous old pearls that had been in the family a hundred years; but from that moment the good Lord struck it with a curse, and filled it white-hot with hell-fire, so that, if anybody held it a few minutes in their hand, it would burn to the bone.

Father Anselmo used to tell us this, to show us a little what hell-fire was like.

His reforms gave no quarter to right or left; sleepy monks were dragged out to midnight-prayers, and their devotions enlivened with vivid pictures of hell-fire and ingenuities of eternal torment enough to stir the blood of the most torpid.

It was deemed sufficient for a male relative, say, the father, to assert the innocence of the woman under solemn oath: for it was thought that he would be unwilling to do this if he knew the woman was guilty and so incur eternal Hell-fire as a punishment for perjury.

Of ice and of lust and of hell-fire are all we sprung; old records attest it; and fickle and cold and ravenous and without shame are all our race until the end.

The first thing I knew I was sprinkling hell-fire on them.

Horses fall, and struggle, and lie helpless, and their driverswell, if I were to watch them long, I should be in danger of madness and hell-fire.

A man would be sent to hell-fire for daring to lay hand on her.

His sallow, haggard face turned dusky with rage, and his singularly black eyes flamed as if with hell-fire.

Fit ending of the ancient edifice which had stood for almost exactly one hundred years, and in which the three Mathers, Increase, Cotton, and Samuel,father, son, and grandson,had preached the unctuous doctrine of hell-fire and damnation; teaching so incendiary was bound sooner or later to consume its own habitation.

" Hell-fire was much in theological evidence in those days, but among the Eskimos it was a failure as a deterrent.

54 examples of  hell-fires  in sentences