hell-broth
Example Sentences
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At short irregular intervals the hell-broth in the hole seemed as if boiling up.
From Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram
I went down into the same hell-broth of sweat and confusion.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
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 Westall, William
So I looked out for some quiet retired place, where I might be out of reach of my friends, and have leisure to cook up some delectable dish of poetical "hell-broth."
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
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)
