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Forty or fifty years before, the guard-ships were generally little better than floating pandemoniums.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

The manufacturing towns of England are mostly pandemoniums of smoke or blast-furnace fumes.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

He must have fought for life in the depths and pandemoniums, to achieve that excellence of equipment which makes men turn to him for his word and his strength.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington

My friends called these pandemoniums the hells of Montezuma.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

Again, where it was entered by minor cañons, it became a breach through crowded pandemoniums of ruined architectures and forsaken, frowning imageries.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)