infernal pit

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A lasting woe, A misfortune, an abuse, A sharp pain, a fiend let loose From the infernal pit below.

From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

To Berkley the sunset world had become only an infernal pit of scarlet strung with raw nerves.

From Ailsa Paige by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The abysses of his brain no one can, or even dare, explore—but, listen as we will at the door of that infernal pit of laughter, we shall hear no laugh against his faithful little Mathilde.

From Old Love Stories Retold by Le Gallienne, Richard

And in the blaze the crows winged, two and two, like witches flying home to the infernal pit, now all ablaze and kindling coal on coal along the dark sky's sombre brink.

From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

And lo! in a minute I look'd down as 'twere into the infernal pit.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir