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Example sentences for "brimstone"

Lexicographically close words:
brimful; brimless; brimmed; brimming; brims; brindle; brindled; brine; brines; bring
  1. Let him hear me curse thee for an ungodly man with all his trade, a maker of devilish engines, and hellish thunder and lightning in barrels, in which he shall some day pass away in a storm of fire and smoke and brimstone fumes.

  2. Come back to us laden with the pale yellow brimstone and the grey-white salt.

  3. Instantly bellacuccia burst away from the lawyer, and, clambering up to the window, broke away through the upper panes and disappeared, leaving a smoke and a smell of brimstone behind.

  4. On the other hand, you must understand that when the devil wooes a maiden in this form he does not suddenly after appear with horns and hoofs and carry her off to brimstone and fire.

  5. I thought such an occupation would be the best excuse for silence--he presented me with a pipe of tobacco, to which dame Brimstone applied a light, and I soon lent my best endeavours to darken still further the atmosphere around us.

  6. They found the water tasted of sulphur, and some of 'em started in saying that the devil wasn't very far off when you could taste brimstone so plain.

  7. The idea of a literal lake of fire and brimstone to be the eternal abode of by far the larger part of the human race, according to the orthodox doctrine of Christianity, is not only unreasonable, but unthinkable.

  8. The name of Sharon came from Sharon in Connecticut, and the spring water is discharged with a crust of white and flocculent sulphur into a stream not inappropriately called the Brimstone Brook.

  9. The phial should be closely corked; and when used, a common brimstone match is to be introduced, and rubbed against the sides of the phial: this inflames the match when it is brought out of the bottle.

  10. Charcoal is a preservative, by which the saltpetre and brimstone are made into gunpowder, by preventing the sulphur from suffocating the strong and windy exhalation of the nitre.

  11. For small fire-works, such as may be bought in the flour will be found quite good enough, but for the larger kinds, the lump brimstone ground is preferable.

  12. We shall smell one if brimstone will do it.

  13. Bet you sixpence he's been smearing his hand with brimstone for the last half hour.

  14. The buckskin harness used on Babe and Benny when the weather was rainy was made by Brimstone Bill.

  15. Brimstone would fasten the harness with an anchor Big Ole made for him and when the sun came out and the harness shrunk the load would be pulled to the landing while Bill and the oxen were busy at some other job.

  16. One day when Brimstone Bill had Babe hitched to one of the old water tanks and was making his early morning trip, the tank sprung a leak when they were half way across Minnesota.

  17. The custodian and chaperon of Babe, the Big Blue Ox, was Brimstone Bill.

  18. The Winter of the Deep Snow, when even the tallest White Pines were buried, Brimstone Bill outfitted Lucy with a set of Babe's old snowshoes and a pair of green goggles and turned her out to graze on the snowdrifts.

  19. A type of the last and general overthrow of the world by fire and brimstone (2 Peter 3:6,7).

  20. Thus will God, I say, judge and condemn poor sinners, even from and by themselves, to the fire, that lake of brimstone and fire.

  21. And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths.

  22. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.

  23. He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath: and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb.

  24. And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

  25. Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

  26. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

  27. Dale hurried into the house and up the stair, and into the sick-room, the windows of which were opened to their widest, as though to cleanse the room of the fire and brimstone which had seemed over-strong even to such a pachyderm as young Job.

  28. Th' air were so full o' fire and brimstone with his curses, it weren't safe.

  29. The smell of the brimstone is on your garments; the hot breath of hell is in your face!

  30. Peter Cartwright boasts that, on a certain occasion, he "shook his brimstone wallet" over the people.

  31. The moment that Walter saw him he smelled the brimstone on his own garments, he felt himself upon the crumbling brink of the precipice, with perdition below him.

  32. Brimstone butterfly, sexual difference of colour in the.

  33. They're not going to line up, like the pupils of Dotheboys Academy, for a spoonful of brimstone and treacle.

  34. The old-fashioned pious books made hell stink of brimstone and painted the Devil hideous.

  35. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

  36. The Lord in heaven confound them, rain his fire and brimstone round them, The robbing, murdering red-coats, that would burn a peaceful town!

  37. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the Devil is gone, To visit his snug little farm upon earth, And see how his stock goes on.

  38. Greek: R] Rivers of fire and of brimstone shall fall from the heavens.

  39. If he couldn't get along any other way, he could fill his pockets with brimstone matches, and his boots full of blue vitriol.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brimstone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alabaster; asphalt; mineral; stone