infernal pit
Example Sentences
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And lo! in a minute I look'd down as 'twere into the infernal pit.
From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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 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)
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 Daviess, Maria Thompson
After this, the remains were thrown into the infernal pit, called the ice-house.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)
