One of the five "cities of the plain" in Genesis

Usage examples of sodom.

Al Basrah was no better, but this had to be what Sodom and Gomorrah had been like before God torched them.

I already said, in part the Rapture was to spare those who were already Christians from the suffering, just as God spared Noah and his family before the flood,16 and just as he spared Lot and his family before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Yet parcht with scalding thurst and hunger fierce, Though to delude them sent, could not abstain, But on they rould in heaps, and up the Trees Climbing, sat thicker then the snakie locks That curld MEGAERA: greedily they pluck'd The Frutage fair to sight, like that which grew Neer that bituminous Lake where SODOM flam'd.

Although most people had accepted the fact that Mary Pickford was a twenty-five-year-old woman who still played very young girls, if “Our Mary” had been suspected of having an affair with a thirty-five-year-old married man and father, her—and his—movies would have been boycotted and every church in the land would call for God’s wrath to strike California’s Sodom, and turn to tiny bleak salt pillars all the dolls.

So the widow and mother performed her duty, and in the moment realized that the freedom she had prayed for and dreamed of, fruit of scarlet and gold seen afar, was but an apple of Sodom in the hand.

But of those which I have cited, though I have not myself seen, but only read about them, I have been unable to find trustworthy witnesses from whom I could ascertain whether they are facts, except in the case of that fountain in which burning torches are extinguished and extinguished torches lit, and of the apples of Sodom, which are ripe to appearance, but are filled with dust.

But they are apples of Sodom, as a matter of fact, Dead Sea Fruit, gall-apples.

She worked the conversation round to Bible history and triumphantly demanded whether we knew that Sodom and Gomorrah are towns to-day, and that a street-car line is contemplated to them from some place or other&mdash.

When he describes his past, Ellendale will sound like Sodom and Gomorrah.

What destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah was not some normal geological process.

He'd read about Greenwich Village but this seemed too sick even for a Sodom like that.

And thus would he inveagle my belief to think the combustion of Sodom might be natural, and that there was an Asphaltick and Bituminous nature in that Lake before the Fire of Gomorrah.

This country that God intended to be our land of milk and honey, but which has been turned instead into Sodom and Gomorrah.

I couldnt tell whether it sounded more like Sodom and Gomorrah or Camelot-all the adjectives he used.

The special devices we discussed, you will find them beneath a sulphur extraction plant near Sodom in the Negev desert.