hell-broth
Example Sentences
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The Allies are not prepared to intervene in force; they cannot leave Russia to stew in Her own hell-broth.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919 by Various
Now there is only one man more—and after that, one more tub to be lowered—and the hell-broth is cooked once again, and will come streaming forth.
From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
But at last the ingredients for the hell-broth are ready.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus
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)
They are partly heathen, partly Christian; partly classical, partly Teutonic—a strange and unwholesome compound, as ‘thick and slab’ as the hell-broth mixed by the hags on ‘the blasted heath’!
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
