everlasting fire
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"It is the everlasting fire," said the bishop rising and striking a threatening attitude, while the count, dropping on both his knees, hid his face in his hands.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
Like spectral lamps, that burn before a tomb, The ancient lights expire; I wave a torch, that floods the lessening gloom With everlasting fire!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
He begins by inquiring whether the everlasting fire is the same with that of our earth.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Archdeacon Farrar, for instance, in despite of common sense and etymology, contends that "everlasting" fire only means "eternal" fire.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
He said; and rose the echo round "In everlasting fire!"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
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