Example sentences of "[prep] hell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 2 | Cool water in the parched circles of hell . |
| 3 | While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell . |
| 4 | Speak , speak , thou vision of hell ! |
| 5 | The poet has ascended through all the regions of Hell and Purgatory , and now at last , on the threshold of Paradise , comes to his long-expected reunion with Beatrice . |
| 6 | He was as near as dammit to being a stylistic carbon copy of Hell . |
| 7 | From the fissure poured lava , blood-red lava glowing like the fires of hell in the night . |
| 8 | Four hours of hell for nought . |
| 9 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 10 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 11 | HORRIFYING HARBINGERS OF HELL , MONSTROUS CARBUNCLES OR MEDIEVAL FORERUNNERS OF ‘ SPITTING IMAGE ’ ? |
| 12 | Are their open jaws the jaws of Hell , or they are the equivalent of a near-Satanic Dirty Dozen , under the command of the angels — the church 's way of fighting like with like ? |
| 13 | Above right Damned sinners trapped in the Jaws of Hell on a nave-roof boss in Norwich Cathedral |
| 14 | The reviewer called him a ‘ Joycean Hell 's Angel ’ who had created from the tawdry San Francisco Tenderloin district ‘ an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell ’ . |
| 15 | It sounded better than burning in those fires of hell that Mrs Parvis once mentioned . |
| 16 | Better than burning in Mrs Parvis 's hot red fires of hell . |
| 17 | unscrupulous messenger of hell , fair angel of our fate , |
| 18 | Without Dana I was suffering the agonies of hell . |
| 19 | If men were beginning to abandon their fear of hell , they were clinging with some tenacity to their hopes of heaven , as we shall see in chapter nine . |
| 20 | Squires , parsons and magistrates were associated with tithes and the administration of the Poor Law , in an era when the workhouse represented many poor men 's idea of hell . |
| 21 | In any event , among adults the moral rigidities of hell and damnation were rapidly disappearing , except in the families of the Dissenting sects . |
| 22 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
| 23 | The New Testament , despite its talk of God condemning the wicked to an eternity of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the fires of hell ( a level of violence , as one commentator has put it , surpassing anything spoken of in the Old Testament ) , has yet more challenges to offer , and not just in the Passion narratives . |
| 24 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 25 | A woman can be at once lovely and loathsome , chaste and lecherous , Sacred Bride and Queen of Hell . |
| 26 | For , according to Hughes , his mother Sycorax is a black sorceress and a Queen of Hell , as well as being a lineal descendant of Dido , Queen of Carthage , a white magician , whom Aeneas loved and betrayed . |
| 27 | She was succeeded as Henry 's wife by her double or antitype , Ann Boleyn , a Queen of Hell . |
| 28 | The Five Gates of Hell by Rupert Thomson ( Penguin , £5.99 ) — Moon Beach sounds like a pleasant place to take a holiday but is the complete reverse . |
| 29 | It certainly sounds my idea of Hell on Earth , with no alcohol being sold ( as in Fortress Wapping ) because , as the American organiser explained : ‘ We want to keep the Magic Kingdom magic . ’ |
| 30 | And , as Jesus promises , the Christian Church will survive and ‘ the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it ’ . ’ |