everlasting fire
Example Sentences
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You can only breathe in constant heat and excitement, both are your conditions of life, and you drag your entire surroundings with you in the everlasting fire of your nature.
From Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes by Werner, E.
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 Foote, G. W. (George William)
My soul is tossed as though it were at sea, My brain is floating on the vacant air, My heart consumed in everlasting fire!
From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster
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 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 Sue, Eugène
