hells

Truly are they called hells, for there the love of evil and hatred of the neighbour prompt to action.

The Lights and Shadows of Real Life 1847

Religiously defined as hells denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension

Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

Religiously defined as hells denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension

The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007

A mere official denial of the charges would have been useless; a disinterested person was needed to report upon the prisons and _étapes_ which had been described as hells upon earth, and to either confirm or gainsay the statements made by the American traveller.

From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

"A thousand years in the lowest of the hells is the atonement prescribed by the Nichirenites for the priests of all other sects."

The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885

Public gambling, which only existed by and through what were popularly termed hells, might be easily suppressed.

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

Guess I'll have to work some more "hells" in there!

The WritingYA Weblog: Oh, my words! tanita davis 2007

The copy I have at my bedside has the "hells" and the "god-damns" of the original, but no f-words.

gender traps in fiction Holly 2005

I see people using "hells" all the damn time, but I've never understood why.

idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2003

And at the same time, it made me realize how amazingly good we've got it here in the US, and how we have to MANUFACTURE our own problems because we've never seen the kind of hells they've seen.

kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2003