hell-broth
Example Sentences
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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)
But at last the ingredients for the hell-broth are ready.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus
It is delightful to smell the perfume of a fact in the hell-broth of his perjury.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
"I would swallow the stuff were it Locusta's hell-broth, for your sake."
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
It was incredible that this hell-broth was Church Cove.
From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton
