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How to use brimstone in a sentence

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At times mournful, and at other times gently consoling, there's little about it that smells of brimstone.
Irrespective of all the fire and brimstone, he should do the right thing and immediately withdraw his inconsiderate remarks with a full apology.
Reminding me of an animated daffodil, a male brimstone butterfly flits through the sun-dappled shade.
And he was filled with images of fire and brimstone and a cloven-hoofed man-beast.
The Cleopatra butterfly replaces the familiar brimstone in the south of Europe.
Basking in brimstone and pranging another Kennedy with a pitchfork, Richard Nixon smiles sulphurous approval.
Jonah and Sally lingered behind, holding dishrags over their noses to block the horrid smell of brimstone.
The outsides of buildings are horrible facades of doom and brimstone and that gunky stuff that forms in your eye when you're sleepy.
We should not have had to threaten these responsible bodies with hellfire and brimstone before the conditions were improved.
Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts.
They had hymns, a sermon with fire and brimstone, and all the usual traditional elements.
With the fire and brimstone of the Old Testament, the parishioner condemns his perversion.
And who wouldn't enjoy the sight of the first brimstone of the year eagerly supping at a garden primrose.
Then the image of a depression-era preacher and his message of Hell-fire and brimstone.
All the candles were snuffed out immediately and a strong smell of brimstone and myrrh filled the room.
The whole fire and brimstone preaching I have herd is mainly with Baptists, Pentecostals, First Church of Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses.
The same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
A fog covered her vision, a dark fog that smelt of burning brimstone.
In contrast to the old-style fire and brimstone, today's efforts to curb personal freedoms and erode civil liberties are justified in the terms of health and safety.
Rather than turn people onto religion with threats of fire and brimstone, the association of decidedly modern churches' messages open a gentler gateway into the fold.
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Said he could smell the brimstone and hear the trumpet callin' him to judgment.
The brimstone or orange-tip would be good to observe in this respect, but it is hopelessly difficult.
He who is gendered of fire and brimstone must have some vim in his composition.
An hour after the brimstone has been burnt, the apartments may be safely entered into by men.
And when he gave the benediction, the snorter disappeared in a flash, with a strong smell of brimstone, I suppose?
They then rummaged Maracaibo for brimstone, pitch, and tar, with which to make their fireship.
Fire is not derivable from truth, nor is brimstone a stimulus to memory.
Police said that on examining 40 gunny sacks allegedly containing brimstone, the explosives were found.
Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?
Then Jove let fly with his thunderbolts, and the ship went round and round, and was filled with fire and brimstone as the lightning struck it.
I don't wonnah dat Sodum and Gomorrah was guv up to fire and brimstone.
A collection of German stories emitted a scent of brimstone.
Give it brimstone and treacle and a cupful of wormwood and camomile.
But no sooner had they started unlatching the cage than the parrot went into a squawking frenzy, spitting fire and brimstone.
It is a most vituperative affair, and reeks with fire and brimstone.
Another retiring gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings.
Attendances have plummeted as ministers were compared unfavourably to the fire and brimstone style of the Free Church of Scotland or the rousing hymns of gospel churches.
But the best informed historians are of opinion that the grenade contained only brimstone and assafoetida, and was meant to plague Cotton Mather with a very evil perfume.
The Doctor has been dabbling in some of the old brimstone after all.
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