hell-broth
Example Sentences
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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
At short irregular intervals the hell-broth in the hole seemed as if boiling up.
From Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
"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
I have not yet stirred up the hell-broth of personal vices, nor do I intend to do so.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther
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
