hell-broth

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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

The time soon came when I remembered his simile, and acknowledged its truth; and I knew then that that pot was filled with hell-broth!

From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John

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

Wayland, is this hell-broth of a sulphur stew doin' me?

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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)