infernal pit
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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 William Carleton
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 Richard Le Gallienne
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 William Carleton
And lo! in a minute I look'd down as 'twere into the infernal pit.
From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption—thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
