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)
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
At short irregular intervals the hell-broth in the hole seemed as if boiling up.
From Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram
She makes hell-broth of galls and toadstools and caterpillars.
From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur
Its springs are far between, and, without a single exception, mere receptacles of a salt, potash, and sulphur hell-broth, which no man would drink, save in extremis.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
