hell-broth
Example Sentences
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Wiley did not guess it–he knew it–Virginia Huff was the witch who had mixed the hell-broth that had raised up all this treachery against him.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
But at last the ingredients for the hell-broth are ready.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
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
Besides, I may come back immegitly, for them mine-owners are cooking a hell-broth for us all.
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
Its springs are far between, and, without a single exception, mere receptacles of a salt, potash, and sulphur hell-broth, which no man would drink, save in extremis.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
