infernal pit
Example Sentences
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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)
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 Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
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
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)
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 Milton, John
