hell-broth

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There was a pretty hell-broth brewing in the little town.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

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 Hughes, Thomas

But at last the ingredients for the hell-broth are ready.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

The dog, who still sat watching the hell-broth brewing, saw him hurrying past the door, but he thought to himself, "When I have had something to eat, I will soon catch froggy up."

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir