hell-broth
Example Sentences
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"I would swallow the stuff were it Locusta's hell-broth, for your sake."
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
But at last the ingredients for the hell-broth are ready.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus
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 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
It is delightful to smell the perfume of a fact in the hell-broth of his perjury.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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 Frazer, James George, Sir
