hell-broth

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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

Two centuries ago there was a prescription for scurvy containing "stercoris taurini et anserini par, quantitas trium magnarum nucum," of the hell-broth containing which "guoties-cumque sitit oeger, large bibit."

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

My faith in Shakspeare is so unbounded, that I verily believe the hell-broth of Macbeth’s witches would, if properly mixed, engender a real armed head and bloody child.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

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