infernal pit
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
To serve little children, the robin dares approach the infernal pit.
From Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley)
A lasting woe, A misfortune, an abuse, A sharp pain, a fiend let loose From the infernal pit below.
From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
His eyes blazed from beneath his knit eyebrows with a fire that seemed to be lighted up in the infernal pit itself.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
The coquina quarry was as hot as the infernal pit.
From Quick Action by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
By the infernal pit of Pluto! by all the furies! you will turn my wine into poison—into poison I tell you.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)