hell-broth

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In Ireland itself, moreover, the hell-broth of agitation is kept constantly seething to the inevitable detriment of recuperative effort, which cannot do its full work without security for the future.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

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

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

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

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

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

The higher powers must have thought that I had swallowed enough of this hell-broth; for, at this juncture, the dictation and compulsion suddenly ceased.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various