hell-broth

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The Allies were not prepared to intervene in force, and they could not leave Russia to stew in her own hell-broth.

From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)

Here, aglow from underneath, were dark red clouds, such as might drift from dark jars of sacrificial blood; there the vapour was dark indigo gray, like the long hair of witches steeped in the hell-broth.

From Manalive by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Now there is only one man more—and after that, one more tub to be lowered—and the hell-broth is cooked once again, and will come streaming forth.

From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

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