The sea and the sky are the two exits by which dwellers in the slums of Deptford and in North Shields can escape from the inferno of life.
The pictures of these forlorn wastrels people a certain corner of the mind, and one can make the ragged brigade start out in lines of deadly and lurid fire at a moment's warning, until there is a whole Inferno before one.
He lived through the Anarchy, and the faithless vassal and the tyrannous noble wallow in his Inferno with the corrupt judge and extortionate official.
I wade through the inferno of the most hideous battles for the precious kernel of truth, and when I find it I can't gloss it over and make it appear what it is not.
Other legends, however, state that the veritable and primordial lord of the Hawaiian infernowas called Manua.
Peter found himself hoping that it was not to the old tool cabin that Beth had been taken--that she was even far away from this inferno that lay before him.
He realized immediately that his hoarse cry was lost in the inferno of the flames, but he ran more rapidly, beating out the embers which had ignited the sleeve of his shirt.
And so they half lay, half crouched in the mud and water, while the inferno swept over them, passing to the south.
The darkness was illumined by a fearful light that burst from the sea of flame pouring out from the proscenium, making Dore's representations of Inferno shrink into the commonplace.
She covered her face with her hands, as if she would cut out the sight of that last inferno in the church.
Within that raging inferno they could hardly see one another for the smoke, but they were all animated by the same purpose, to fight to the death and to carry as many of their foes with them as they could.
Sidenote: Further Naval Movements] At last, at two o'clock, the inferno ceased.
Jean Valjean had passed from one circle of the Inferno into another.
It might have been called that Inferno of Brahminism, the most formidable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of Swords.
Dark had dropped suddenly over the Discovery, bringing with it a cooling respite from the inferno of day.
In moments the gulal bar, where they had been standing only hours before, was devastated, an inferno of shredded cloth and billowing flame.
The personality of the room, somber and still, flowed about him with a magical release from the inferno of the past years, the last hours.
One man who fought in that dark inferno told me a moving experience of its mysterious horrors.
What an inferno she then was, only those who fought her can tell.
The survivors were huddled together in the forecastle, the only part of the ship which had not been made aninferno by the fire, which was still burning aft, and had scorched the stern out of all shape or even existence.
It was a nightmare face, a face of Gustave Dore from the Inferno engravings!
The record of heated horror, the extraordinary glimpse into an inferno incredible to the sane man, has proved of immense value to those who are engaged in studying the psychology of the inebriate.
His world consisted of two classes--criminals and police; and without any further ceremony of trial and sentence, the very fact of our descending into his Inferno was clear evidence that we belonged to the former class.
Presently we descended to the Inferno again, from which we were conducted by a long subterranean passage to Newgate prison.
I had come out of theinferno and the delirium back to life and hope.
I have done quite enough, I tell myself, in my passage through the inferno of war.
In the midst of the inferno wherein my soul burned I recognized the uncanny strangeness of the scene.
If my sojourn in the Inferno was not as gruesome as the hero's of Ithaca, nor filled with majestic horrors like the immortal Dante's, yet it was undeniably true.
What stories they had to tell of the inferno they had come from!
Old and young, rich and poor, every woman with some soul that was dear to her in that inferno at the front--the Motherhood of France was there to pray to the Mother of all living to ask God for the triumph of the right.
It was an inferno through which a flash of lightning darted from time to time, followed by thunderclaps.
It seemed as if theinferno she had witnessed in the sky had fallen upon her and was eager to swallow her up.
In its thin air and continuous cold he would be comparatively safe from marauding spider scouts, and from the peak he could watch not only the city of the monsters but the better part of the Inferno Range as well.
After days of studying and speculation he had decided that the Caves must be situated in the Inferno Range, a place so particularly vicious that no man, so far as was known, had ever explored it.
They're worth going to inferno for," Grief laughed genially back, running his eyes over the surface of the table covered by the display.
At the end of another hour Captain Glass, under a mountain of blankets, had ceased shivering and was in the inferno of a profound sweat.
In a space of time so short that it all seems to me like a dream now the whole city, slumbering peacefully but a moment before, presented a perdition beside which Dante's inferno seems to pale into insignificance.
Hawaii, Paradise of the Pacific, raised by the fires of the very Inferno out of the depths of the ocean centuries ago, to become in recent years a smiling land of tropic beauty and an American island possession!
He seemed to be sailing just above some frightful infernoresembling nothing he had ever before encountered.
At that instant a loud, though dull boom from the explosion of a bomb had added its quota of noise to the raginginferno of sound.
He still brooded in theinferno of his own thought-circle.
Sometimes they cut down the smouldering brush and flung it back across the break into the inferno on the other side.
