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  • Finally able to see a way out of the Piaszow inferno, I felt stronger in spirit if not in body.†   (source)
  • As Langdon's eyes followed the inferno upward, the true horror of the scene descended like a bird of prey.†   (source)
  • And directly across from me, his fiery gaze burning into mine, is the king, sitting on a diamondglass throne carved into an inferno.†   (source)
  • The animals had fled just in time to save themselves from the inferno!†   (source)
  • You could be a fireman rescuing thirty children from an inferno, but you won't stress if you happen to drop a few of them into the flames along the way."†   (source)
  • It was not morning; it was an inferno.†   (source)
  • A torch was thrown onto the bubbling pitch, and an orange pillar of greasy flames roared up in the opening, engulfing the Urgals in an inferno.†   (source)
  • We can see all the way into the kitchen, which is an inferno.†   (source)
  • Hurt Village had become an inferno of gangs and drugs and crime.†   (source)
  • It shot clean past the heads of the lead group and blew with a shattering blast against the fuel tanks, turning the helo into an inferno, stern and midships.†   (source)
  • Tonight, like an inferno burning outward in all directions from a single ignition point, the news that Lincoln had been shot spread from Ford's in an ever-widening circle.†   (source)
  • They had no tools to stanch a fire, and no plan at all for what they might do to put out a chemical inferno.†   (source)
  • Especially when the elevator was silent and shut and the ninth floor was an inferno and the fire kept pouring in the windows.†   (source)
  • The god Set stepped from the inferno—a mighty red-skinned warrior with smoldering black eyes.†   (source)
  • 'If you and I have survived this inferno for over five years,' he replied, 'it's obviously God's will for us to live.†   (source)
  • Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno.†   (source)
  • —Dante, Inferno.†   (source)
  • Rage billowed in her chest, as if there were flames inside her that needed only fury and grief to blaze into an inferno.†   (source)
  • A real inferno.†   (source)
  • Beyond, through the jagged hole where the window had been, the closest mountainside was a raging inferno.†   (source)
  • At one o'clock in the morning, my little brother, who in my lonely days of inferno dwelling had protected me from goblins, gnomes, gremlins and devils, was leaving home.†   (source)
  • It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.†   (source)
  • ' The monster-fueled thigh to belly button inferno built Adam's mouth moved by trembling inch lower, inch I was ready to do it right that very instant'. oh, so ready.†   (source)
  • The inferno blazed behind him and his face was covered in soot and blood.†   (source)
  • After describing the inferno, the paper stated: "The fire broke out on ….†   (source)
  • The images in my head were fuel, building up the inferno but refusing to be consumed.†   (source)
  • The experimental aircraft, the fault systems, the inferno of cars and smog, the women from nowhere, even the street gangs that were coming into prominence at the time, adopting varsity colors.†   (source)
  • To my right, the sun breaks the horizon and light shoots across the winterscape, setting ablaze a crystalline inferno, as if a billion diamonds had fallen from the sky.†   (source)
  • She burst into an inferno of explosions and Niagaras of ignited gasoline; the massive concussions lifted her out of the water and shook her from side to side.†   (source)
  • The room itself had fast become an inferno, and I did see in one clear blast of light Claudia battling the fledgling vampire.†   (source)
  • I had managed to resist, the inferno with a certain integrity, but when I felt so much support, I broke down.†   (source)
  • It's just that this year an exotic bird is among them, an authentic ghetto kid who, for whatever reason, made it through the urban inferno without donning an armor.†   (source)
  • Inevitably it was he whom I saw burning in the roaring inferno of eternal damnation.†   (source)
  • His gaze burned with the intensity of the inferno that both punished and provided his existence.†   (source)
  • Houses were torn down in advance of the flames, but then nothing seemed to check the inferno.†   (source)
  • This inferno that has lived in my loins and in my head these many weeks has taken root in my condemnation of my husband and my determination for revenge.†   (source)
  • Rose Tucker didn't float down in her seat like a bit of dandelion fluff and just stroll away through the inferno."†   (source)
  • Fewer than a dozen of our ships survived the inferno on the Blackwater.†   (source)
  • Madam Petra's house was an inferno, flames crackling from every window as a smoky pall settled.†   (source)
  • Inferno.†   (source)
  • In a few hours, the president will board Air Force One for a trip to Europe, temporarily leaving the racial inferno behind.†   (source)
  • Raging Inferno Destroys Block of Williamson Street†   (source)
  • But I can say with all certainty that walking the length of a ballroom with a book upon one's head and a backboard strapped to one's back while imprisoned in a tight corset, layers of petticoats, and shoes that pinch is a form of torture even Mr. Alighieri would find too hideous to document in his Inferno.†   (source)
  • The barn collapsed in on itself; the flames leaping skyward and the snow gently falling into this inferno.†   (source)
  • A figure suddenly raced from the left into the inferno that had been the campsite, then whipped around and ran through the flames, turning twice and, seeing Jason, firing at him.†   (source)
  • Or that indeed their very final inaccessibility—the realization that they were all gone forever—was an actual cause of this inferno of lust?†   (source)
  • A couple of months ago, on the day when summer came bustling into the world, I was seated at a table in the back of the Inferno, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.†   (source)
  • Then, after I discovered the inferno you were in, I got you assigned to my unit.†   (source)
  • Life in any such multiple dwelling was life in an inferno of naked emotion for an Esper.†   (source)
  • like a scene from Dante's "Inferno".
  • That place to which Dante devoted the canticle immediately following his legendary Inferno?†   (source)
  • Instead of letting his warmth, his strange kindness confuse me, I commit the inferno to memory.†   (source)
  • I am swallowed by the inferno immediately, hearing nothing but the crackle and hum of the flames.†   (source)
  • Ten feet from the inferno, at a full sprint, Langdon hit a wall of heat.†   (source)
  • But most were standing shoulder to shoulder, facing the inferno, their figures still and quiet.†   (source)
  • He ends the match when the arena explodes into a churning inferno that even Maven steps back from.†   (source)
  • Jason didn't see how even fireproof Leo could survive in that inferno, but he had to hope.†   (source)
  • The rivers of whiskey caught fire and inferno ensued.†   (source)
  • Even as Mark saw it he noticed a woman step up and throw two more logs on top of the inferno.†   (source)
  • What must have been a monstrous inferno appeared as small and harmless as a guttering candle.†   (source)
  • There, in that writhing inferno, he sought to forget his cares and responsibilities.†   (source)
  • He felt the insects underneath the rocks being crisped in the inferno.†   (source)
  • Could anyone who had been close to the heart of such an inferno?†   (source)
  • I'm not sure that was the brightest thing ever to run so close to a raging inferno."†   (source)
  • The inside of Air Force One is like an inferno; the air-conditioning has been off for hours.†   (source)
  • I asked my father as we watched the inferno envelop the bundles.†   (source)
  • Most people see a huge roaring inferno coming at them?†   (source)
  • Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.†   (source)
  • Now the fire was mutating, forming a gigantic pack of fiery beasts: Flaming serpents, chimaeras, and dragons rose and fell and rose again, and the detritus of centuries on which they were feeding was thrown up into the air into their fanged mouths, tossed high on clawed feet, before being con-sumed by the inferno.†   (source)
  • Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem.†   (source)
  • It seems to me as if he had not really come back to his senses yet after his journey through all the various circles of the inferno; as if he were writing in some surprise about another person, the person he became after the German invasion of Poland.†   (source)
  • He appeared as a warrior with red armor and red skin, a black, forked beard, and twinkling, cruel eyes; but in the Duat, I saw his other side, a raging inferno just barely contained, waiting to be unleashed and burn everything in its path.†   (source)
  • As the blaze in the barn grew to an inferno, the soldiers retreated to the Garrett house, moving Booth's limp body onto the porch near the bench where Booth had sat, smoked, napped, and chatted over the previous two days.†   (source)
  • The Inferno.†   (source)
  • One flight up, on the ninth floor, where two hundred and fifty girls worked, where Yetta had worked before the strike, where Bella worked now—up there, they had no idea there was an inferno raging beneath them, eating up the air, climbing higher and higher and higher.†   (source)
  • Her eyes blazed like an inferno.†   (source)
  • Even though his abilities are far away, suppressed by these wretched walls, an inferno rages in his eyes.†   (source)
  • White-hot flames burst from his throat and chest and stomach, sweeping over his body like an inferno.†   (source)
  • A torrent of blue fire erupted from between Saphira's jaws and bathed the left side of the Lethrblaka's head in a ravening inferno hot enough to melt steel.†   (source)
  • Queen Alysanne and Lady of Silk, still locked together, were a ranging green inferno, drifting downriver and dragging pieces of Lady's Shame.†   (source)
  • The other soldiers clustered in the center of the inferno, the blades of their spears and pikes reflecting flashes of bright blue light.†   (source)
  • The entire platform, crusted with grease and oil, quickly became an inferno that engulfed the whole facility.†   (source)
  • Eragon thought of the raging inferno that she could now summon at will and send roaring out of her maw.†   (source)
  • Worse, a good part of the south wing of the enemy's first two battle lines had been well upstream of the inferno when the hulks went up.†   (source)
  • He told her everything: the fire turning into an inferno on the deck; how he'd hit the water and seen the dark-haired man; how the stranger had led him to the life preserver; how he'd reappeared with a blue windbreaker, then suddenly vanished in the supply ship afterward.†   (source)
  • The plane crashed today at 3:45 p.m. in heavy fog and driving rain, plowing into a block of houses on Williamson Street before exploding into an inferno.†   (source)
  • A southern dialect word, a corruption, a slur, an invective, from tizzo, he assumed, a firebrand or smoldering coal, and broadened to human dimensions in tizzone d'inferno, scoundrel, villain.†   (source)
  • The soldiers leaped back from the sudden inferno, immediately retaking their places in the guard's perfectly straight line.†   (source)
  • He watched them depart poorer than ever in a long, sad procession, with their children, their old people, and the few dogs that had survived the shooting, and some chickens saved from the inferno, dragging their feet along the dusty road that led away from the land where they had lived for generations.†   (source)
  • The Inferno by Dante Alighieri.†   (source)
  • Roran accompanied Jeod to the quarterdeck, where they watched the crimson inferno devour everything flammable between Teirm and the ocean.†   (source)
  • As strong as Brom's affection for Morzan had been, it was like a candle before an inferno compared with the hatred that replaced it.†   (source)
  • A ravening inferno engulfed Saphira.†   (source)
  • Finally they reached the edge of the expanding inferno, the line of it far more distinct than Mark would've expected.†   (source)
  • The volume of the inferno's roar also died down enough that he could hear the crunching sounds of his footsteps again.†   (source)
  • The brightsteel could easily have taken over half an hour to reach the appropriate temperature in a charcoal fire, but it required only a few minutes in the withering inferno of Saphira's flames before it turned white.†   (source)
  • Mark set off after him, knowing they had to make it to the other side of the inferno before it got too big—they had to get to Trina and Deedee and Lana.†   (source)
  • Another wrote a long poem of an inferno, wherein each man suffered a torture which coincided in nature with those forces which had ruled his life.†   (source)
  • In the New England twilight, past his hand and its poison, she could see the inferno of leaves, one tree awash in vermilion, merging with another crafted of the most violent gold.†   (source)
  • More sirens sounded, but this time dimly, from the opposite direction, and I glimpsed a plume of water that gushed skyward toward hidden windows, met some hidden inferno and then evaporated in a nimbus of steam.†   (source)
  • This was an inferno of pain and smell and noise and hurry—hurry—hurry!†   (source)
  • Dante's Divina Commedia is an exhaustive review of the stages: "Inferno," the misery of the spirit bound to the prides and actions of the flesh; "Purgatorio," the process of transmuting fleshly into spiritual experience; "Paradiso," the degrees of spiritual realization.†   (source)
  • Then again—this was the second circle—it was like the Inferno—if neither he nor Mordred had really set the misery in motion, who had been the cause?†   (source)
  • One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase–some JACKBOOT, ACHILLES' HEEL, HOTBED, MELTING POT, ACID TEST, VERITABLE INFERNO or other lump of verbal refuse–into the dustbin where it belongs.†   (source)
  • The world became an inferno of noise and flame and trembling earth as one explosion followed another in earsplitting succession.†   (source)
  • To Scarlett, he seemed as exhilarated and contemptuous as if he got strong pleasure from the situation, as if he welcomed the inferno they were approaching.†   (source)
  • And here, in this inferno of luggage, was White Fang deserted by the master.†   (source)
  • I heard Latimer shout down the scuttle, too cautious to descend into the inferno of passion he could hear raging beneath him in the darkness.†   (source)
  • I have enjoyed, too, my rests, my recuperations, my breathing times, my very prostrations after strife; but rather would I be dragged through all the circles of the foolish Italian's Inferno than through the pleasures of Europe.†   (source)
  • He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily ("Septimus, do put down your book," said Rezia, gently shutting the Inferno), he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then—that he could not feel.†   (source)
  • When Jurgis had first inspected the packing plants with Szedvilas, he had marveled while he listened to the tale of all the things that were made out of the carcasses of animals, and of all the lesser industries that were maintained there; now he found that each one of these lesser industries was a separate little inferno, in its way as horrible as the killing beds, the source and fountain of them all.†   (source)
  • Hare thought there must be an end to it some time, yet it seemed as though he were never to cross that black forbidding inferno.†   (source)
  • My purpose was to stroll into the shade for a moment; but no sooner within than it seemed to me I had stepped into a gloomy circle of some Inferno.†   (source)
  • His puttees were a nuisance to wear and an inferno to put on; his collar pinched his neck and jabbed his chin; and it was wearing on a man who sat up till three, on the perilous duty of studying calculus, to be snappy at every salute.†   (source)
  • And in the meantime Clyde was left to cogitate on and make the best of a world that at its best was a kind of inferno of mental ills—above which—as above Dante's might have been written—"abandon hope—ye who enter here."†   (source)
  • Every day the police net would drag hundreds of them off the streets, and in the detention hospital you might see them, herded together in a miniature inferno, with hideous, beastly faces, bloated and leprous with disease, laughing, shouting, screaming in all stages of drunkenness, barking like dogs, gibbering like apes, raving and tearing themselves in delirium.†   (source)
  • And so, exalted, upborne by a sense of power, I turned my back on the howling inferno and climbed to the deck, where the fog drifted ghostly through the night and the air was sweet and pure and quiet.†   (source)
  • …days later, the proper commitment papers having been prepared and his mother notified of the change but not permitted to accompany him, Clyde was removed to Auburn, the Western penitentiary of the State of New York, where in the "death house" or "Murderers' Row," as it was called—as gloomy and torturesome an inferno as one could imagine any human compelled to endure—a combination of some twenty-two cells on two separate levels—he was to be restrained until ordered retried or executed.†   (source)
  • He clung to one idea—that of his happiness, destroyed, without apparent cause, by an unheard-of fatality; he considered and reconsidered this idea, devoured it (so to speak), as the implacable Ugolino devours the skull of Archbishop Roger in the Inferno of Dante.†   (source)
  • The young stranger, who was not unstudied in the great poem of his country, recollected that one of the ancestors of this family, and perhaps an occupant of this very mansion, had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno.†   (source)
  • "You hear—Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti—a man who ranks amongst the most ancient nobility of Italy, whose name Dante has celebrated in the tenth canto of 'The Inferno,' you remember it, do you not?†   (source)
  • The inferno has no terrors for me.†   (source)
  • In my translation of the Inferno I am often Dr. Carlyle's debtor.†   (source)
  • In English there is an excellent prose translation of the Inferno, by Dr. John Carlyle, a man well known to the reader of his brother's Correspondence.†   (source)
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  • Several large infernos, spewing black smoke, were consuming the atoll's oil tanks.†   (source)
  • I don't see many raging infernos around for them to play with."†   (source)
  • Now, holding out his hands toward her, he intones: In nomine Domini Sabaoth sui filiique ite ad infernos.†   (source)
  • I really don't think," he said to Ida, "that you ought to make a habit of working in such infernos.†   (source)
  • They not only incinerated dozens of Japanese—the smell of burnt flesh floated on the damp wind—their liquid fire turned several pillboxes into infernos, causing Japanese ammunition to explode in great bursts.†   (source)
  • Smaller yard locomotives chugged backward and forward, clacking boxcar couplings together and sending up infernos of black gritty smoke which settled over the valley in layers.†   (source)
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