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  • "Macbeth is rather guilty of tempting the Weird Sisters than of being tempted by them, and is surprised and horrified at his own hell-begotten conception."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

  • That image rose, and the blackness seemed all red -- red with those lines of fiery writing on it, smoking and crawling, flickering and blazing, climbing, and licking with thin, greenish tongues of hell-begotten flame.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • It has been an age of long sorrow of such natures, in such a hell-begotten sort of world as ours.

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • It has been an age of long sorrow of such natures, in such a hell-begotten sort of world as ours.

    Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly 1852

  • It has been an age of long sorrow of such natures, in such a hell-begotten sort of world as ours.

    Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 1852

  • A Union soldier wrote that "sick as I am of this war," he'd fight on, unable to bear the notion of his children's future "if we were to permit this hell-begotten conspiracy to destroy this country."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • What will you think -- you will think as you ever have of me -- if I should say that already, and upon one of my own house, infected with this hell-begotten atheism, has the axe already fallen! '

    Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century William Ware 1824

  • As the gout had taken up its residence in Mr. Trunnion’s great toe, from whence it never removed, no not for a day, little Perry took great pleasure in treading by accident on this infirm member; and when his uncle, incensed by the pain, used to damn him for a hell-begotten brat, he would appease him in

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • If troops sailed at the time you suggest, the only thing holding those ships from running the straits is this hell-begotten west wind. "

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Was it a human cry or from the throat of another of her hell-begotten breed? "

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

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