Hellward

Combine your newly acquired knowledge about me, with the fact that I was at a training programme (which I would fondly refer to as hellward bound), and you will end up with a perfect recipe for disaster. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What is Humbert Humbert's charged language if not an embodiment of his hellward love for Lolita, his all-inclusive intellect? ❋ William Giraldi (2011)

The Catholic reactionary John Lukacs, after attending the lavish twenty-fifth anniversary bash for National Review in December 1980, held in the Plaza Hotel, hellward of the Catholic Worker House on Mott Street, wrote: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or perhaps I was imagining such hellward-spiraling narratives only because my own escapes from family have had such a random, seamy, slumming quality. ❋ Unknown (2005)

` What Sumner Welles is doing is wrong, but what you are doing to denigrate another man will send you down there, 'and he makes this hellward gesture. ❋ Unknown (2001)

From the girl's tone, suddenly glacial after her cheerful rascality earlier, I could tell that the reminder had swung her mood back hellward. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

Names scrolled down the screen in front of the woman like damned souls plunging hellward. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1992)

As long as mothers do not know who the young men are with whom their daughters spend evenings away from home so long will there be the troop of Little Lost Sisters tripping, stumbling down the trail that leads hellward. ❋ Virginia Brooks (N/A)

Where one draws heavenward and the other hellward, opposite attractions will be presented, and the believer will find constant obstructions to growth in grace, to the discharge of parental duty, and to the cultivation of ❋ Samuel Philips (N/A)

If one draws heavenward and the other hellward, there will be a halting between Baal and God, and the influence of the one will be counteracted by that of the other. ❋ Samuel Philips (N/A)

A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy. ❋ Joyce, James, 1882-1941 (1922)

"Believe me, had Major Macleod discovered you instead of me your soul had by this time been speeding hellward." ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

The influence we throw out as missionaries should be good; for we can lead the world either heavenward or hellward. ❋ Sara J. Duncan (1906)

That little girl who came here from Reidsville last week, and went hellward in Springs 'Alley, was hungry. ❋ Unknown (1905)

From the loins of the father -- a man of tremendous force of character, all turned hellward, for he is a selfish, sensual beast -- proceed three sons, men of powerful individualities, bound together by fraternal affection. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)