hell-broth

Example Sentences

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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)

Seated there upon the ground, Shiminya continued to shake his bowl of hell-broth.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

But at last the ingredients for the hell-broth are ready.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

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)

"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)