Sample Sentences for
perdition
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    I'd smother Bob for you and send Lorie to perdition.  (source)
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    Doctors were Sons of Perdition.  (source)
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    Fermina Daza shared with her schoolmates the singular idea that the Arcade of the Scribes was a place of perdition that was forbidden, of course, to decent young ladies.  (source)
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    I cannot give you up to perdition as a vessel of wrath: repent — resolve, while there is yet time.  (source)
    perdition = hell
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    Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.  (source)
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    Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!  (source)
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    It gave Joseph satisfaction, apparently, to watch him go the worst lengths: he allowed that the lad was ruined: that his soul was abandoned to perdition; but then he reflected that Heathcliff must answer for it.  (source)
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    As for Captain Roberts—he might have wanted to save Cox's soul from the Fires of Perdition, but he hated the man himself and didn't mind showing it.  (source)
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    Then I considered the fact that they both simply might be crazy, or outcast like Paolo and Francesca, caught up in some weird, shared perdition.  (source)
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    Below them, black horrid figures struggled through the flames of perdition while the Black Man sat on a huge flame-colored throne with a trident in one hand.†  (source)
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    They were worked in the yards all the seven days of the week, and they had their prize fights and crap games on Sunday nights as well; but then around the corner one might see a bonfire blazing, and an old, gray-headed Negress, lean and witchlike, her hair flying wild and her eyes blazing, yelling and chanting of the fires of perdition and the blood of the "Lamb," while men and women lay down upon the ground and moaned and screamed in convulsions of terror and remorse.†  (source)
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    We made no promises to storm barricades; We shall go down to perdition openly.†  (source)
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    He would have to bury his daughter in unholy ground, and without the saving grace of the mass her soul was doomed to perdition.†  (source)
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They have bereft; and do pronounce, by me Lingering perdition,—worse than any death  (source)
perdition = suffering
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