How To Use Pestilence In A Sentence
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Although the plague is a fact of history, one will find it difficult to locate anything more horrific than the pestilence that arrived that year in Europe.
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Judgment in Nature: drought, pestilence, famine, disease, wild animals, population loss.
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New organizing concepts and progressive ideas emerged during this period and they became lynchpins to the solutions of pestilence and urban design problems.
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We have learned that pestilences will only take up their abode among those who have prepared unswept and ungarnished residences for them.
Essays
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Náhuatl: Uto-Aztecan language spoken by native Mexicans who, in preconquest era, inhabited the central Valley of Mexico and points southeast, as far as Guatemala. neyolmelahualiztli: Nahuas 'rite of confession, or "straightening one's heart," a practice that restored internal equilibrium. ololiuhqui: various hallucinogenic plants, among them Rivea corymbosa. partera: midwife. pasmo: respiratory illness. peste: pestilence. pintura de castas: colonial-era paintings showing different racial mixes of people. plethora: in humoral medicine, the condition of too much blood, resulting in an imbalance of the humors.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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S. Peter and Calabria, were given over to marauding bandits; wide tracks of fertile country, like the S.enese Maremma, were abandoned to malaria; wolves prowled through empty villages round Milan; in every city the pestilence swept off its hundreds daily; manufactures, commerce, agriculture, the industries of town and rural district, ceased; the
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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And what the effects and benefit of such plantations have produc’d, is conspicuous in one of the most celebrated cities of the East, the famous Ispahan, clear’d of the pestilence, since the surrounding it with that beautiful platan, as I have already noted.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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He argues that there is clear evidence for the pestilence having been plague, rather than other diseases that have been suggested such as anthrax.
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Water-falling was delivered from the contagion of the pestilence, Rocke went to the city of Cesena which is a great city of Italy, which no less pestilence vexed, and he in a short space delivered it from the pestilence.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5
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As the favoured signature of the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, the death's-head hawk moth is a harbinger of pestilence and death.
Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
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It is also believed that utterance of the SO&P password by one of the uninitiate will cause drought, pestilence, scorching heat and Ice Ages.
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I was much struck too with the dirtiness of the people of Palmyra, which dirtiness results in pestilence, ophthalmia, and plagues of flies.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
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The physician's challenge is the curing of disease, educating the people in the laws of health, and preventing the spread of plagues and pestilences.
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Through fire, famine and pestilence they are the only ones always in profit.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The social order, in his view, will correct the premoral contingencies of the natural order, in which pestilence, famine, and war are distributed senselessly, as are opportunities for excellence.
A Special Supplement: A New Philosophy of the Just Society
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The old man did not conceal from himself that it was hard, cruelly hard, for the physician to follow his calling conscientiously at such a time; but he knew his friend; he had seen him during months of pestilence two years since -- always brisk, decisive and gay, indeed inspired to greater effort by the greater demands on him.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09
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Sir John de Walton having alighted from his horse, asked Greenleaf what had passed during his absence; the old archer thought it his duty to say that a minstrel, who seemed like a Scotchman, or wandering borderer, had been admitted into the castle, while his son, a lad sick of the pestilence so much talked of, had been left for a time at the Abbey of Saint Bride.
Castle Dangerous
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In the life of the family, the critical moments of birth, puberty, marriage, and death regularly recur, and keep up the instinct, because man is then brought face to face with these eternal facts; there is no need of extraordinary perils, such as tempests or pestilences, to keep the instinct alive.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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This is the guy, after all, who reveled in themes of torture ( "The Pit and the Pendulum"), pestilence ( "The Masque of the Red Death"), and premature burial ( "Berenice").
Poe at 200 -- Eerie After All These Years
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It ruins cities, depopulates fields, condemns men to idleness and want, and the only remedy it knows for the evils which it brings upon man is to shorten the miseries of its victims by giving pestilence and famine the most ample commission to destroy their lives.
Hannibal Makers of History
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We have a bad joke about Tabasco, we call it pestilence.
An Open Proposal
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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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So the Lord ... sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it -- The infliction only of the pestilence is here noticed, without any account of its duration or its ravages, while a minute description is given of the visible appearance and menacing attitude of the destroying angel.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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A pestilence is a medical physical disease that medical science cannot stop.
CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007
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The men disdainfully repelled the idea of having deserted the defence of their city; and one, the youngest among them, in answer to the taunt of a sailor, exclaimed, Take it, Christian dogs! take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers -- take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms.
II.2
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The father is bearing the "viaticum" to some victim of the pestilence: one must not appear masked as a devil or a deviless in the presence of the Bon-Die.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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The more mystically-minded clerics and chroniclers may have been confounded in their dire predictions of murrains, pestilence, and the imminent Second Coming.
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The pestilence is God's messenger; this he sent among them, with directions whom to strike dead, and it was done.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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'king of the field,' which is the equivalent of Nergal, and again for the same god, the combination Lugal-gira, which is, as Jensen [197] has shown, 'raging king,' and a title of Nergal in his character as the god of pestilence and war.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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Answering the prayers of the priest, Apollo sent a pestilence to ravage the Greek camps.
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He menaced rebellion in the name of his 'counthry,' vented bitter hatred against English rule; they spoke of rags, beggary, and pestilence.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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I’m glad the pestilence is fleeing the household. dorothy Said,
Gone So Long | Her Bad Mother
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As the favoured signature of the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, the death's-head hawk moth is a harbinger of pestilence and death.
Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
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Had the ladies not all been driven from the city by the pestilence, I should most assuredly have engaged some one or more of them to solve the question, whether the doctor was engaged in offices of sympathy, or an affair of the heart -- or whether he was actually _engaged_ in any way.
Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
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He continues his dire warnings of the inordinate amount of pestilence and death poised to descend on our pathetically unprepared continent the second we relax our vigilance.
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13The horror of this first pestilence comes through in several Nahua chronicles, the best-known of these being the account recorded by Sahagún in the General History of the Things of New Spain, his great encyclopedic enterprise on preconquest Nahua life.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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`I'll persevere with anything that might rid me of this pestilence.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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Unpredicted pestilence, volcanic and seismic activity uprooted peoples from their established communities, forcing them to travel through uncharted territories.
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racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation
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Black's student Daniel Rutherford called this gas mephitic air instead: mephitis is a noxious emission in legend, thought to emanate from the earth and cause pestilence.
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The father is bearing the "viaticum" to some victim of the pestilence: one must not appear masked as a devil or a deviless in the presence of the Bon-Die.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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The beggars of her neighbourhood avoid her like a pestilence; for while she walks out, protected by John, that domestic has always two or three mendicity tickets ready for deserving objects.
The Book of Snobs
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As to Blaize, when they got into Cheapside, he was so terrified by the dismal evidences of the pestilence that met him at every turn, that he could scarcely keep his seat, and it was not until he had drenched himself and his companion with vinegar, and stuffed his mouth with myrrh and zedoary, that he felt anything like composure.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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The swarms that followed the first crusade were destroyed in Anatolia by famine, pestilence, and the Turkish arrows; and the princes only escaped with some squadrons of horse to accomplish their lamentable pilgrimage.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He ordered the nearby swamps and marshes in the city of Salinus to be drained, in order to prevent an unknown pestilence, probably malaria.
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Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of Hippocrates.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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And the power of discase has often caused innovations in the state, when there have been pestilences, or when there has been a succession of bad seasons continuing during many years.
Laws
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`I could cope with hard work, dirt, even flood and pestilence if necessary, but not murder.
MOON PASSAGE
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The meaning whereof is, that in Iuly the sun is in Leo At which tyme the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius or Canicula reigneth, with immoderate heate causing Pestilence, drought, and many diseases.
Shepheardes Calendar
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They were so undernourished that they easily became ill from consumption, fevers, pestilence, and a variety of other disorders.
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Four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting, with a dram of Mithridate or Benice treacle, frees the heart from any infection of pestilence.
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Indeed, the pestilence is so closely linked to Roman history that the word "malaria" comes from the Italian for "bad air.
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The youngest Daughter Nanette had sunk under this pestilence, in the flower of her years; and whilst the second Daughter Luise lay like to die of the same, the Father also was laid bedrid with gout.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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Richard Burton, is a living proof that intense work, mental and physical, sojourn in torrid and frozen climes, danger from dagger and from pestilence, 'age' a person of good sound constitution far less than may be supposed ....
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Either the folk had died in the fire, died of the pestilence, or fled at first breath of either.
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Nothing actually stopped this Viking invasion until 892, when pestilence so ravaged the army that they finally dispersed.
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When you take into consideration the tiny dimensions of the island, its distance from all the centres of civilization, its isolation, the great calamities which have befallen it from hurricane, drought and pestilence, and the way it has overlived them all, there is every justification for the pride and glory of its inhabitants in their fair and fertile islet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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The shouts went up from men who'd already seen Mathian's banner fall, and panic spread out from them like pestilence.
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And for that thei liue aftre a chast sort: thei are neither skourged with Blastynges, ne Haile, ne Pestilence, ne suche other euilles.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Ought not the renting of untenantable rooms, and the crowding of such numbers into a single room as must breed disease, and may infect a neighborhood, be as much forbidden as the importation of a pestilence?
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
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Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
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Wait until only the wealthy will be the only ones able to afford food which will become expensive due to it being scarce due to the increase of burnt out crops and rise in pestilence.
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee.
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In an undesigned world, plague, pestilence, famine, diphtheria, cancer, tuberculosis, and other natural ills no longer had to be reconciled with the sovereignty of an omnipotent and benevolent deity.
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The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.
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Don’t forget food shortages, more disease and pestilence is also being predicted due to higher temperatures caused by global warming/climate change.
Think Progress » Rep. Tom Perriello Tells ‘Spineless’ Senate To Get ‘Its Head Out Of Its Rear End’ And Confront Climate Crisis
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`I'll persevere with anything that might rid me of this pestilence.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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In a column a few days ago I mentioned the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of whom is Pestilence.
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Think not we long remained blind to the idiotical folly of our founders, who forswore every delight of life for the pleasure of dying martyrs by hunger, by thirst, and by pestilence, and by the swords of savages, while they vainly strove to defend a barren desert, valuable only in the eyes of superstition.
Ivanhoe
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Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of
The Surgeon's Daughter
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He finally concluded that the only remaining competitor for the distinction of causing the pestilence was a germ which he called bacillus x.
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]
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To the three great judgments of war, famine, and pestilence, is here added the beasts of the earth, another of God's sore judgments, mentioned Ezek. xiv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Cause: belong to disease area of foot and mouth disease, small remasticate animal pestilence, sheep (goat) pox, bluetongue and ked itch disease.
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In the mean time, the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroyd by a pestilence into the bargain: Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.
Dedication
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Abroad the sword bereaves and slays all that comes in its way, and at home all provisions are cut off by the besiegers, so that there is as death, that is, famine, which is as bad as the pestilence, or worse -- the sword without and terror within, Deut. xxxii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The armies being disbanded, whilst there was both peace abroad, and tranquillity at home by reason of the concord of the different orders, lest matters might be too happy, a pestilence having attacked the state, compelled the senate to order the decemvirs to inspect the Sibylline books, and by their suggestion a lectisternium took place.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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`I'll persevere with anything that might rid me of this pestilence.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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He tells us that such was the corruption of faith and of morals towards the close of their brief day, that had not the Saxon sword interposed; plague, pestilence, or famine, or some similar calamity, must have done the fatal work.
Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
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The years of the fructiferous incarnation of the Son of God had reached the number of one thousand three hundred and forty-eight, when into the illustrious city of Florence, beautiful beyond every other in Italy, entered the death - fraught pestilence.
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
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The difficulty arises from an apparent contradiction in terms; and that difficulty is as complete in the case of a headache which lasts for an hour as in the case of a pestilence which unpeoples an empire, -- in the case of the gust which makes us shiver for a moment as in the case of the hurricane in which an Armada is cast away.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Surely he shall deliver thee the snare of the fowler, and the noisome pestilence.
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The pestilence that destroyed so much of our agriculture industry has left a long shadow, and no one would claim that everything today is back to normal.
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May the ghosts of the men who mar the earth, turning her sweet rivers into channels of filth, and her living air into irrespirable vapours and pestilences, haunt the desolations they have made, until they loathe the work of their hands, and turn from themselves with a divine repudiation.
Malcolm
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Then, in the bungling hurry of fitting out, the hulls of several vessels were left foul, which made them dull sailers; while nearly all the holds were left unscoured, which, of course, helped to propagate the fevers, scurvy, plague, and pestilence brought on by bad food badly stowed.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
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It corrupts the soul and causes wars and pestilence and… impurity.
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Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and the noisome pestilence.
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Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, ascendant during the "dog days" of July and August, "at which time the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius, or Canicula, reigneth with immoderate heate, causing pestilence, drougth, and many diseases
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01