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Examples
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Not surprisingly, hypocrites will be confined to the "lowest depths" of Hell-fire (4: 145).
Mark Levine: General McChrystal and the Wages of Hypocrisy 2010
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The endemic inculcation in Satanism which this prompted in seventeenth-century England, exploded after the accession of King George I, in the form of the Hell-fire Clubs which proliferated among degenerate English nobility during the long Liberal prime ministry of Hugh Walpole.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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But he did achieve prominence as a Parliamentary back-bencher, variously known as “Hell-fire Jack,” “the Monkey Man” for having eaten a monkey while in Africa and—since he was a thoroughgoing imperialist—by the sobriquet he treasured most, “Empire Jack.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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With the “Talbiyah” the pilgrims should bless the Prophet, pray Allah to grant Heaven and exclaim, “By Thy mercy spare us from the pains of Hell-fire!”
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But he did achieve prominence as a Parliamentary back-bencher, variously known as “Hell-fire Jack,” “the Monkey Man” for having eaten a monkey while in Africa and—since he was a thoroughgoing imperialist—by the sobriquet he treasured most, “Empire Jack.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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“The fire of the world eateth but drinketh not; the fire which eateth and drinketh is Hell-fire; the fire of the sun drinketh but eateth not, and the fire of the moon neither eateth nor drinketh.”
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"The worst things are those that are novelties, every novelty is an innovation, every innovation is an error, and every error leads to Hell-fire."
Steve Hindes: Think for Yourself!: Give Me Validation or Give Me Death 2008
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He created wild beasts and birds and Paradise and Hell-fire and veileth Himself from all eyes seeing and of none being seen.
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Moreover, "gelded" youth are much more amenable to the Hell-fire and damnation sermons of Evangelical preachers, with their otherworldly cult of pain and suffering.
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Save us from Hell-fire safely, and cause us safely to enter Paradise!
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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