hell-broth

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Wayland, is this hell-broth of a sulphur stew doin' me?

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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

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 Ironside, John

I went down into the same hell-broth of sweat and confusion.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

The higher powers must have thought that I had swallowed enough of this hell-broth; for, at this juncture, the dictation and compulsion suddenly ceased.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various