infernal pit
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To Berkley the sunset world had become only an infernal pit of scarlet strung with raw nerves.
From Ailsa Paige by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
A lasting woe, A misfortune, an abuse, A sharp pain, a fiend let loose From the infernal pit below.
From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
His eyes blazed from beneath his knit eyebrows with a fire that seemed to be lighted up in the infernal pit itself.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
At this time a scheme came into the fertile brain of Whitecraft, worthy of being concocted only in the infernal pit itself.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
The abysses of his brain no one can, or even dare, explore—but, listen as we will at the door of that infernal pit of laughter, we shall hear no laugh against his faithful little Mathilde.
From Old Love Stories Retold by Le Gallienne, Richard
