hell-broth
Example Sentences
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Drink? and who can help drinking, with his stomach turned with such hell-broth as that—or such a hell's blast as this air is here, ready to vomit from morning till night with the smells?
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
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 Bertram Mitford
"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
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 W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
But at last the ingredients for the hell-broth are ready.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
