infernal pit
Example Sentences
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By the infernal pit of Pluto! by all the furies! you will turn my wine into poison—into poison I tell you.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
To serve little children, the robin dares approach the infernal pit.
From Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
To Berkley the sunset world had become only an infernal pit of scarlet strung with raw nerves.
From Ailsa Paige by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
His basket of "yarbs" was under the side of the rock in hoodoo-like shadows and the wagons of poor, innocent, sacrificed lambs and turkeys and sucking-pigs were backed up by the largest infernal pit.
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
