infernal pit
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And in the blaze the crows winged, two and two, like witches flying home to the infernal pit, now all ablaze and kindling coal on coal along the dark sky's sombre brink.
From The Maid-At-Arms by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
At this time a scheme came into the fertile brain of Whitecraft, worthy of being concocted only in the infernal pit itself.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
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 Denis Florence MacCarthy
After this, the remains were thrown into the infernal pit, called the ice-house.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas
And lo! in a minute I look'd down as 'twere into the infernal pit.
From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
