everlasting fire

Example Sentences

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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

Also it is pleasant to think that little children came of their love and sang about their everlasting fire.

From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur

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

I do not know, in the case I have referred to, if the Canon believes in everlasting fire.

From Love's Final Victory by Horatio

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)