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Examples

  • It's a hell-brew of chemical tags and thoroughly mixed DNA.

    Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems 2010

  • He bought me some unpronouncable Belgian hell-brew, criticized my haircut, and started a brawl to cover his abrupt departure.

    I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever 2008

  • Foyle was tinkering with the hell-brew in his lab in Old St Pat's, trying to analyze it '` I told you that in strict confidence,' Jisbella said furiously.

    Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

  • Von Schlichten and Paula lit cigarettes; between sips of his bubbling hell-brew, Kankad gnawed on the stalk of some swamp-plant.

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • Von Schlichten and Paula lit cigarettes; between sips of his bubbling hell-brew, Kankad gnawed on the stalk of some swamp-plant.

    Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Beside the pot containing this hell-brew, was a little pile of letters.

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

  • Beside the pot containing this hell-brew was a little pile of letters.

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

  • Beside the pot containing this hell-brew was a little pile of letters.

    Three Men and a Maid Wodehouse, P. G. 1922

  • The sequence of these essences varies in different "parlours," but one especially loathsome hell-brew, known as

    America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

  • a sort of hell-brew twilight -- the kind of glow you might expect before the overwhelming of the world.

    Caves of Terror Talbot Mundy 1909

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