hell-broth
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The moor, which is broken into humps and hillocks, smokes and boils and babbles like the hell-broth of Macbeth’s witches, and across it winds, snake-wise, a steaming brook.
From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by William Westall
This yellow, sinuous beast with hell-broth slavering from its jaws!
From The River and I by John G. Neihardt
Drink? and who can help drinking, with his stomach turned with such hell-broth as that—or such a hell's blast as this air is here, ready to vomit from morning till night with the smells?
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
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
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
