What is "hellfire"

Usage examples of "hellfire".

A combat vehicle like an outsized, lightly armored jeep, a hummer could carry quite a sting, up to and including pop-up launchers for TOW or Hellfire antitank missiles meant to take out much tougher targets than Mobile One.

Hellfire Club carried out their threat to desanctify it with the spilled blood of innocents.

One had only to look at his mother, with her investments in cotton presses and town lots and steamboat companies, with her comfortable house and the sturdy health that lingers into old age only with adequate care, and compare her to Hesione, who gave away and spent every sou in her hellfire youth.

During the next twenty-four hours, the two Iraqi heavy divisions were hit by more than a thousand attack sorties, many by A-10 attack aircraft and Apache and Cobra helicopters, all of which employed the most lethal precision-guided munitions of all: Maverick, Hellfire, and TOW antitank missiles.

The Setessins had attacked the Romaghin home planet, landing with their Jumbos in the Hellfire Desert.

Then the rest of the street snapped into focus, a single-file herd of lowriders humping and fucking the pavement, giant metal roaches tattooed with hellfire, images of the Virgin, slogans.

The monster-mage unleashed more hellfire as if hurling hatred from her heart.

These officers are all these 'Shareholders'—exploiters, the lot of them—and they're in league with the Crotchets, damn their alien souls to hellfire.

Each of them carried sixteen Hellfire missiles as well as a 30mm chain gun that also fired depleted uranium shells capable of shooting right through the top of any armored vehicle they encountered.

One of the launcher trucks rotated its four-tube mount and fired, but the Crotale lost lock when the Hellfire angled down and went harmlessly ballistic.

His harsh style was particularly effective on the Eastern Shore, which he traipsed from end to end, shouting hellfire and providing the simple citizens with a brand of religion much more appealing than the stately proprieties of Episcopalianism, a rich man’s faith, or Catholicism, which had become severely formalized.

The new Predators, the small, unmanned aerial vehicles or drones that provided real-time video, could stay airborne for 24 hours, and could fire two Hellfire missiles.

I further thought that I clearly portrayed in my male leads, Old Pep, Old Shep, and Hellfire Henry, three different kinds of utter failures as men, but I have been assured—by the equivalents of Germaine Greers and Catherine Mac­Kinnons in my own circle—that these characters are to most women the most typically typical of men.

But for the cruel efficiencies of the Greys, Taglios would have become a chaotic, murderous sink, a hellfire fueled by poverty and despair.

I braced myself to leap for the ladder, resolved to kick the appalling Jumbo in the crotch, God willing, for while the dear child had lied splendidly thus far, I knew she was convent-reared on all that hellfire and mortal sin bilge, and wouldn't dare perjure - and I stopped in the nick of time, for she was giving an angry little shrug, looking Papa sulkily in the eye, and swearing by Almightee Godd that she had repelled my clumsy advances with ease and it would take a better man than Flashy to drag her into the long grass, or words to that effect.