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  • noun Plural form of hellfire.

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Examples

  • Or training hellfires, no warhead. on April 14, 2009 at 6: 24 pm | Reply Spanners

    I’ll Do Anything Me. For Now That Is. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • While the hellfires tore through most of Wall Street in 2008, Travelers emerged unsinged, netting $2.9 billion on $24.5 billion in revenue.

    Wall Street's Honest Man Nathan Vardi 2011

  • Imagine the terror of the poor, likely illiterate villagers when the hellfires come raining down.

    Take Warning | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • While the hellfires tore through most of Wall Street in 2008, Travelers emerged unsinged, netting $2.9 billion on $24.5 billion in revenue.

    Wall Street's Honest Man Nathan Vardi 2011

  • Can worship and prayer also embrace oil spill clean-ups and rescuing sea turtles from the burning hellfires of Gulf waters?

    Brenda Peterson: Oil Spill: A Great Awakening? 2010

  • Can worship and prayer also embrace oil spill clean-ups and rescuing sea turtles from the burning hellfires of Gulf waters?

    Brenda Peterson: Oil Spill: A Great Awakening? 2010

  • When talking to her, he skipped the “damnations” and “hellfires,” deferring to her femininity.

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • The 41-year-old lives here on social security benefits, paid for by a populace he believes should – in large measure – be lashed, stoned or burned in the hellfires.

    Johann Hari: Meet the Ex-Jihadis 2009

  • In a perfect world those that do wrong would suffer the hellfires of painful punishment, in the real world they almost always get away with it, that is if they are not rewarded for their actions!

    The Monster Retires to Its Cave Madmother 2009

  • The countless victims of the Holocause, along with the progeny they would have had, died because Britain slammed shut and bolted the gates of the Jewish National Home, and condemned the Jews to the hellfires of Europe.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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