hell-broth

He had taken a peep into the kitchen where that hell-broth was brewing. '

Culture Maxine 2009

And the sort of credentials we are due to receive from the god in the shadow would have been real bones out of hell-broth to Ralph Waldo.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

It highlights the right thinking Left a fine service in itself but, it also gives you the lowdown on the wrong thinking Right, thus saving you from having to wade through the wingnut hell-broth yourself.

Hullabaloo 2004

If we worked and kept steady at it, in a place where there were thousands of strangers of all kinds, it would take the devil himself to pick us out of such a queer, bubbling, noisy, mixed-up pot of hell-broth.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

He was to poke the fire under the kettles wherein the hell-broth was stewing, keep the house clean, drive all the sweepings behind the doors, and see that everything was in order, but if he once peeped into the kettles, it would go ill with him.

Household Tales 2003

At short irregular intervals the hell-broth in the hole seemed as if boiling up.

The Lair of the White Worm 2003

"For a charm of powerful trouble," 1 recite, "like a hell-broth boil and bubble."

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

It was not the hell-broth tangle that one found In much of the wilderness Out Back.

The Trouble With Tycho Simak, Cliffard D 1961

Alcohol is a subtle poison, and it takes a long time for it to so undermine man's system that he finds life almost intolerable unless stimulated by the hell-broth which must surely destroy him in the end, unless he closes his lips like a vise against it.

Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson

Its springs are far between, and, without a single exception, mere receptacles of a salt, potash, and sulphur hell-broth, which no man would drink, save _in extremis_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various