hell-broth
Example Sentences
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The time soon came when I remembered his simile, and acknowledged its truth; and I knew then that that pot was filled with hell-broth!
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
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
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 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
He pitched pell-mell into the hell-broth of his criticism any image that assaulted his fecund brain.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
