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lake of fire and brimstone
noun as in fire and brimstone
Weak matches
Example Sentences
By denouncing a candidate as formidable as Stone, people will show one another that they do not wish for themselves or their famillies to be cast alive into a lake of fire and brimstone—even on the pain of an impeached, amoral Trump having to run against a candidate who supports single-payer health care!
"May Satan fly away with your hearth to the lake of fire and brimstone," shouted Denys, who could speak Flemish fluently.
That "great gulf" was as the Valley of Hell; its rocky sides, yellow with sulphurous flames—how glistening and slippery they looked!—told of a "lake of fire and brimstone" seething and boiling below; those yawning caverns which were disclosed as the smoke drifted away, were the abodes of despair, and the winds that moaned and shrieked around were the wailings of the lost; while the pillar of cloud which is always rising from beneath, which "ceases not day nor night," was as "the smoke of torment," forever ascending.
Is not the "lake of fire and brimstone" an obsolete issue?
They leave out the lake of fire and brimstone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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