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brimstone
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Definition:sulfer---1. The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.2. (obsolete) sulfur3. (archaic) used attributively as an intensifier in exclamationstext from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Story of Sodom and Gomorrah. We are seemingly required by this story to believe that God keeps a manufactory of brimstone in heaven; for we are told that "the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven" (Gen. xix.). If we credit this story, we may infer that the Lord keeps a supply of the article on hand, perhaps to be let down occasionally to replenish the bottomless pit.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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Deuteronomy was my favorite book in the Bible. The laws were so absolute, so clearly set down, that I knew if a person truly wanted to avoid hell and brimstone, and being roasted forever in the devil's fire, all she had to do was memorize Deuteronomy and follow its teaching, word for word.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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“the fearful, the unbelieving, &c., shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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for some reason he had an unfolded white handkerchief draped over his head, possibly to ward off rain, or hail, or brimstone.
J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.174 (1955)
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Then José Arcadio Buendía threw three doubloons into a pan and fused them with copper filings, orpiment, brimstone, and lead.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.7 (1970)
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Mr. Bambridge gave an ejaculation in which "brimstone" was the mildest word, and Mr. Hawley, knitting his brows and bending his head forward, exclaimed, "What?—where did the man die?"
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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You're a brimstone idiot.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House (1852)
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