infernal pit
Example Sentences
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To serve little children, the robin dares approach the infernal pit.
From Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
And lo! in a minute I look'd down as 'twere into the infernal pit.
From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
At this time a scheme came into the fertile brain of Whitecraft, worthy of being concocted only in the infernal pit itself.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
By the infernal pit of Pluto! by all the furies! you will turn my wine into poison—into poison I tell you.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption—thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
