everlasting fire
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In the ecclesiastical processions of the Church of Rome is frequently to be observed the figure of a dragon, in the mouth of which "holy and everlasting fire" is observed to be burning.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Gamble, Eliza Burt
"Signor, it is the booming of the everlasting fire, and thou hast heard the voices of the damned."
From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
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 Stephen, Leslie, Sir
So speaks he, and carries forth in his hands from their inner shrine the chaplets and strength of Vesta, and the everlasting fire.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
It was the crypta or sacred place, where of old the everlasting fire was preserved.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob
