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1912 , Mary Roberts Rinehart , “The Miracle”, 出自 Love Stories :"When I'm hungry, there's hell to pay if I'm not fed quick." (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
1921 , Zane Grey , 章号 3, 出自 To The Last Man :"I told him I had sent for you an' when you got heah these slippery, mysterious thieves, whoever they were, would shore have hell to pay ." (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
2009 11月 16, Amy Sullivan , “Can Dems Resolve Their Abortion Split? ”, 出自 Time , retrieved 28 August 2013:Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan . . . vows that "there will be hell to pay " if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation. (请为本引文添加中文翻译)