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Examples
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Looming nearby was the hell-mouth of a crocodile- headed monster.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011
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Looming nearby was the hell-mouth of a crocodile- headed monster.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011
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Then the hell-mouth gloom began to grow faintly luminous, and the waterfall's thunder burst on their ears from close at hand.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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He knows US and British troops have now been stationed in the hell-mouth of Helmand longer than the First and Second World Wars combined - yet the mutterings from the marble halls of Washington, DC, suggest he may order a troop escalation.
Johann Hari: Everything You Have Been Told About Afghanistan Is Wrong: The Three Great Fallacies 2009
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He knows US and British troops have now been stationed in the hell-mouth of Helmand longer than the First and Second World Wars combined - yet the mutterings from the marble halls of Washington, DC, suggest he may order a troop escalation.
Johann Hari: Everything You Have Been Told About Afghanistan Is Wrong: The Three Great Fallacies 2009
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Devils through the hell-mouth of medieval art and stage.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968
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Several devils are to be seen in the miniature; they have cloven feet, and stand outside the hell-mouth;
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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They continued to like Herod, Noah and his wife, and the tumultuous troup of devils, great and small, inhabiting hell-mouth.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Then your faither -- his God do sit everlastingly alongside hell-mouth, an 'laugh an' girn to see all the world a walkin 'in, same as the beasts walked in the
Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Then the hell-mouth gloom began to grow faintly luminous, and the waterfall's thunder burst on their ears from close at hand.
King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909
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