everlasting fire
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There be in this Island mountaines lift up to the skies, whose tops being white with perpetual snowe, their roots boile with everlasting fire, etc.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
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 Conrad, Robert Taylor
The country was truly an abomination of desolation, nothing but naked rockery for miles and miles, with the everlasting fire of the sun raining upon it.
From The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II by Wilkins, W. H.
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
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