hellfire
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"I do not wish that on even my enemies. It was like we just came back from hellfire."
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Perhaps that heat he feels is not the warmth of success, but the hellfire of the demon’s fury.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2025
And then he brought apocalyptic hellfire, scoring 31 points in the first half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
Clara Schumann writes with a loveliness that Mahler underscores with an anxious darkness; Mayer’s “Erlkönig” churns with drama, but with more shape than Schubert’s hellfire.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
When I woke, the city of New York was consumed with burning hellfire.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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