hell-broth

So I looked out for some quiet retired place, where I might be out of reach of my friends, and have leisure to cook up some delectable dish of poetical "hell-broth."

From Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving

I have not yet stirred up the hell-broth of personal vices, nor do I intend to do so.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

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

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

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 John Ironside

I went down into the same hell-broth of sweat and confusion.

From Jaffery by William John Locke