Sodom

In particular, hardened though I am, it astonishes me that men WITH FAMILIES should care to live in this Sodom. For example, there is a family of poor folk who have rented from the landlady a room which does not adjoin the other rooms, but is set apart in a corner by itself.

I had always, I confess, been brought up to think of Paris as a sort of Sodom and Gomorrah in one.

In their gamesome but still serious way, one whispers to the other --"Jack, he's robbed a widow;" or,"Joe, do you mark him; he's a bigamist;" or,"Harry lad, I guess he's the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom." Another runs to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of his person.

Just so must Lot have left Sodom, when he expected fire to pour down upon it, out of burning brass clouds."

Had the apples of Sodom turned to ashes in my mouth, I could not have felt a more startling revulsion.

There were undoubtedly more than two cities engluphed in the "dead sea." In the valley of Siddim were five - Adrah, Zeboin, Zoar, Sodom and Gomorrah.

"Ambition plucking apples of Sodom!" (the monkey had pricked himself and was swearing).

"Scylla and Cha--confound it, I thought it was Sodom and Gomorrah!"

And the only reason why the land don't sink under it, like Sodom and Gomorrah, is because it is used in a way infinitely better than it is.

Then Yahweh said, 'How great is the cry for justice against Sodom and Gomorrah!

Lot found himself in the wicked city of Sodom. God gave the land of Canaan to Abram.

'If it failed to do so, that means we are going back to Sodom. Just like when God asked the family of Loth to leave Sodom, and the wife who looked back and turned to salt, we all know what happened,' he said.