hell-broth
Example Sentences
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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 Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
She makes hell-broth of galls and toadstools and caterpillars.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
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
He pitched pell-mell into the hell-broth of his criticism any image that assaulted his fecund brain.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
"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
