hell-broth
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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
There was a pretty hell-broth brewing in the little town.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
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)
He pitched pell-mell into the hell-broth of his criticism any image that assaulted his fecund brain.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
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
