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Examples
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But it was the first of those, Lord John and the Hell-Fire Club, that actually started this.
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When the Liberals came to full power, under Walpole, this Liberal stuff came out in such form as the proliferating Hell-Fire Clubs.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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This spilled over into the United States, notably in the circles of putative “Great Awakening” evangelist Johnathan Edwards, and his protege, Princeton Hell-Fire Club activist Aaron Burr.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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One can't help but feel, reading this, that there was the seed of a really good Hell-Fire Club novel in HPL somewhere.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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Hell-Fire There was a stir as of a very polite first-night audience.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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"Hell-Fire Club," of which John Wilkes, Bubb Dodington and other political notorieties were members.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The war of those who have everything against those who have nothing; of men like Old Hell-Fire Packard against men like me.
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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Cattle and horses along her road awoke from their dozing in the moonlight, perhaps leaped to the conclusion that it was old Hell-Fire himself in their midst, flung their tails aloft and scampered to right and left, and Terry's car stood in front of Packard's door.
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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"What for a man is he growed up to be, anyhow?" was what Hell-Fire
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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Old Hell-Fire Packard stared at him, mumbling heavily:
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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