Quotations

(dates and formatting needed) * 'Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' — Genesis, 19:24, King James Version * 'And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that {are} with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone .' — Ezekiel, 38:22 King James Version * 'For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.' — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene * 'Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone , and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.' — John Milton, Paradise Lost * 'Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone , and suchlike sweetmeats.' — Walter Scott, The Antiquary * '[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone , and used up as to bliss [...]' — Charles Dickens,Hard Times * 'Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.' — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby * 'The brimstone , too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * 'But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man English intensifiers