hell-broth

Example Sentences

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"I would swallow the stuff were it Locusta's hell-broth, for your sake."

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

And yet, blissfully ignorant of the hell-broth a-brew, I worried not a whit—didn't even begin to edge away from mid-channel for a while, in fact.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

The higher powers must have thought that I had swallowed enough of this hell-broth; for, at this juncture, the dictation and compulsion suddenly ceased.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

The time soon came when I remembered his simile, and acknowledged its truth; and I knew then that that pot was filled with hell-broth!

From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John

Seated there upon the ground, Shiminya continued to shake his bowl of hell-broth.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram