hell-broth
Example Sentences
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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 Mrs. Humphry Ward
Seated there upon the ground, Shiminya continued to shake his bowl of hell-broth.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
"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
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
My faith in Shakspeare is so unbounded, that I verily believe the hell-broth of Macbeth’s witches would, if properly mixed, engender a real armed head and bloody child.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
