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5 total sentences available.
When I next took an interest in things I found myself lying in the road. The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.
Source: wiktionary
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?
Source: wiktionary
School was Gehenna for the restless student.
Source: wiktionary
The people obeyed his commandment, and succeeding ages followed the example, and Gehenna became the general sink of the city, and the receptacle of all its pollutions.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include abaddon, abyss, bottomless pit, damnation, hades.
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