infernal pit

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And in the blaze the crows winged, two and two, like witches flying home to the infernal pit, now all ablaze and kindling coal on coal along the dark sky's sombre brink.

From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley)

This came from the plain of the giants between Malebolge and the mouth of the infernal pit.

From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner

Outside the house the strange, repellent odours grew stronger, as if it were the reek of some infernal pit.

From Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

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