seething-pot

Such were the seething-pot and almond-rod seen by Jeremiah, chap.i. 11, 13, as also his baskets of figs, [chap.xiv. 1-3;] and many more of the like kind might be instanced in.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Feudalism was the seething-pot, and the imperial edifice was crumbling to dust.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Madrid, and he had been two years in that seething-pot of Spanish affairs, with Christinos and Carlists at one another's throats, when

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

And I said, I see a seething-pot, and its face is from the north.

The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867

"It is to lose oneself in a seething-pot, where the scum is the most apparent thing."

Queechy 1854

"It is to lose oneself in a seething-pot, where the scum is the most apparent thing."

Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852

"It is to lose oneself in a seething-pot, where the scum is the most apparent thing."

Queechy Susan Warner 1852

Around a fire which blazed and crackled beneath the large seething-pot, that seemed an emblem of the mystery and a promise of the good cheer which are the supposed characteristics of the gypsy race, were grouped seven or eight persons, upon whose swarthy and strong countenances the irregular and fitful flame cast a picturesque and not unbecoming glow.

The Disowned — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"But doubtless," returned his companion, "if he were fire, as thou sayest, the liquid would not bear his approach so meekly; why, it would boil if he were but chin-deep in yon great seething-pot."

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

But ere long the scene changed, and the "seething-pot" of a universal ambition, the crucible of nations, grasped by the hand of

Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813