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 Hughes, Thomas
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
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.
At short irregular intervals the hell-broth in the hole seemed as if boiling up.
From Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram
And yet, blissfully ignorant of the hell-broth a-brew, I worried not a whit—didn't even begin to edge away from mid-channel for a while, in fact.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
