hell-broth
Example Sentences
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She makes hell-broth of galls and toadstools and caterpillars.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
This yellow, sinuous beast with hell-broth slavering from its jaws!
From The River and I by John G. Neihardt
The dog, who still sat watching the hell-broth brewing, saw him hurrying past the door, but he thought to himself, "When I have had something to eat, I will soon catch froggy up."
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
In Ireland itself, moreover, the hell-broth of agitation is kept constantly seething to the inevitable detriment of recuperative effort, which cannot do its full work without security for the future.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
There was a pretty hell-broth brewing in the little town.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
