hell-broth
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The moor, which is broken into humps and hillocks, smokes and boils and babbles like the hell-broth of Macbeth’s witches, and across it winds, snake-wise, a steaming brook.
From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by Westall, William
The Allies were not prepared to intervene in force, and they could not leave Russia to stew in her own hell-broth.
From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
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.
Seated there upon the ground, Shiminya continued to shake his bowl of hell-broth.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram
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
