How To Use Pestilent In A Sentence
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They squeezed across the narrow bridge ten abreast - one hideous, brown, pestilential beast with a hundred buckling legs.
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From the beasts of prey and the cannibal humans down to the death-dealing microbes, no quarter is given; and daily, wider and wider areas of hostile territory, whether of a warring desert-tribe in Africa or a pestilential fever-hole like Panama, are made peaceable and habitable for mankind.
THE HUMAN DRIFT
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We must get rid of these pestilential flies.
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It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN
Redgauntlet
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Eck's comments on the "pestilential" errors of Wiclif and Hus condemned by the Council of Constance was met by the reply, that, so far as the position of the Hussites was concerned, there were among them many who were "very Christian and evangelical".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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It must be realised that the developers who are trying to spoil our town rely on people thinking that they have already objected to their pestilential schemes and don't have to do so again. But this is not so.
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If they want to know their first task, as coaching motivator and quarterback leader, it's to eradicate pestilential losses like this one.
For the NFL's worst, it always gets better when they play the Redskins
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During the hot weather it's a pestilential place, populated by heavy clouds of biting insects.
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It is a pestilential bureaucracy, which attempts to micro-manage higher and school education.
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At every fair-time "a kind of pestilential fever" raged, so that at least 400 folk were buried there annually during the five or six weeks of the market.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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It has rid us of a pestilential politics based on religious hatred and elitist contempt for the poor.
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Thou shalt be shunned like a pestilent tetter, nor shall any plague be fouler than thou.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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Presidents come and Presidents go, but pestilent enemies of America will always be lurking, probing for cracks in our foundation.
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Their reputation was pestilential, and the greatest care was taken to leave them alone.
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If there is a powder-like whitish coating covering the tongue surface, it is caused by the internal accumulation of summer-humid heat and is usually seen at the onset of pestilential diseases.
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Who can wonder that pestilential disease should originate and spread in such situations?
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He cheap hotels milford unorganized febricity, is a pestilent noisemaker in haemogenesis, an telemetered ahuehuete rimbaud and a disclike origen.
Rational Review
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The pestilential winds of the east are described by various authors under various denominations; as harmattan, samiel, samium, syrocca, kamsin, seravansum.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of
Redgauntlet
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Of flying insects, too, there are such as appear in houses, fields, and woods, which arise in like manner in summer, with no oviform matters sufficient to account for them; also such as devour meadows and lawns, and in some hot localities fill and infest the air; besides those that swim and fly unseen in filthy waters, wines becoming sour, and pestilential air.
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
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During the hot weather it's a pestilential place, populated by heavy clouds of biting insects.
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Zeus had once tried to seduce the lovely Io, but Hera, his jealous wife, had discovered her husband's intentions and turned poor Io into a cow, left to wander about the earth, constantly pursued and tormented by a pestilent gadfly.
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Most times, apart from the pestilential traffic lights, there is hardly a vehicle to be seen, but it is still costing £200,000 as a temporary measure’.
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The garbage strike isn't merely a glib metaphor for an economically as well as emotionally pestilent environment, however.
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And in the meane season, he willed his mother to be of good cheere, and comfort her selfe till as he might find some convenient time to come unto her, when his father was ridden forth: Wherewithall hee got him away from the pestilent sight of his stepdame.
The Golden Asse
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a pestilential malignancy in the air
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It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN
Redgauntlet
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During the hot weather it's a pestilential place, populated by heavy clouds of biting insects.
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18.3 In comments on his table, Potter says that he has doubtless included mention of many plagues which, although described under that name, are probably a dissimilar disease, writers having applied the terms pestilential and pestilent in a generic sense to diseases specifically different.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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There is a law Section 1170 that states that the Board of Health and Sanitation of the City of New York may remove from the public arena any person sick with any contagious, pestilential, or infectious disease.
Deadly
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He said, `People like that are undoubtedly a pestilential nuisance, to put it no higher.
KARA KUSH
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And the vourhain---is that what that pestilent bloated one is called?
LORD PRESTIMION
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As it turns out our most pestilent weed is the woman living at the far end of the property who insists the yardmen have yet to do the trimming she's wanted for months.
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O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow! he brought vp Horace giuing the Poets a pill, [xi: 3] but our fellow Shakespeare hath giuen him a purge that made him beray his credit.
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
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Sobrij quoque sunt, quapropter et longo tempore viuunt: et si quis ab eorum moribus degenerat, proscribitur perpetuò sine mora, omnibus nulla posita differentia personarum, vnde et in iusto Dei iudicio, quòd naturalem exercere iustitiam contendunt, Elementa eis naturaliter obsequuntur, et rarò eos tangit tempestas, aut fames, pestilentia aut gladius.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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I am sorry to say that a pestilent stricture of the imagination, or rather, of the compositive faculty so constrains me that I have not yet finished the poem I have been writing with regard to the discovery and service of this beast.
On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
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Here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of Walham Green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy ‘medium’ and the squalid séance.
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Yet the Eighties revival that has swept its pestilential way through womenswear for years continues to wreak eye-watering havoc on the way the other side accoutres itself.
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Certain it is, that after he had left the island called La Mona, and when he was approaching the island of San Juan, a drowsiness, which Las Casas calls "pestilential," but which might reasonably be attributed to the privations, cares, and anxieties which the admiral had now undergone for many months, seized upon him, and entirely deprived him for a time of the use of his senses.
The Life of Columbus
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Grimble, once he's given the blessed footwear by his pestilent fairy godmother, has a smooth ride, which means no drama.
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The rise of fast growing slum quarters in cities, foul smelling, pestilent, disease ridden places where workers lived out short lives while working long hours, swelled with the dispossessed tenant farmers.
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From the cave of my ignorance, amid the fogs of my dulness, and pestilential fumes of my political heresies, I look up to thee, as doth a toad through the iron-barred lucarne of a pestiferous dungeon, to the cloudless glory of
The Letters of Robert Burns
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He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season.
Tartarin of Tarascon
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What was remarkable was that the Allies having spent nearly six years fighting to destroy this pestilential horror in the heart of Europe, then turned round and assisted the German people to rebuild their society and their prosperity.
Athens backs villagers' fight for German compensation over 1944 SS massacre
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The pestilential winds of the east are described by various authors under various denominations; as harmattan, samiel, samium, syrocca, kamsin, seravansum.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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In comments on his table, Potter says that he has doubtless included mention of many plagues which, although described under that name, are probably a dissimilar disease, writers having applied the terms pestilential and pestilent in a generic sense to diseases specifically different.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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It is the spirit which incarcerates unfortunate prisoners of honorable warfare in pestilential holds, stifles them with thirst, starvation, diseased meats, if not slow poisons, and plants tons of gunpowder under them that, in case of inability to retain them, they might be blown to atoms at the mere touch of a match.
The Assassinated President
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Men do not actually "die of a rose in aromatic pain," though many may become uncomfortable and fidgety by sniffing delicious wattle-blossom; and one of the crinum lilies owes its specific title, (PESTILENTIS) to the ill effects of its stainless flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful being apt to be seized with violent sickness.
My Tropic Isle
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Men do not actually “die of a rose in aromatic pain,” though many may become uncomfortable and fidgety by sniffing delicious wattle-blossom; and one of the crinum lilies owes its specific title, (PESTILENTIS) to the ill effects of its stainless flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful being apt to be seized with violent sickness.
My Tropic Isle
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be to resemble office worker of pestilential and general sweep anything away by appearance before this " happy net " be pointed to to lack new idea and cold-shoulder gradually.
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Many people were dependent for their water supply on this pestilential stream.
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I read, and kindled; nor found I what to do to those deaf and dead, of whom myself had been, a pestilent person, a bitter and a blind bawler against those writings, which are honied with the honey of heaven, and lightsome with Thine own light: and I was consumed with zeal at the enemies of this Scripture.
The Confessions
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He found a population of about 150 Malay inhabitants and a tropical rainforest edged by pestilential swamps.
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Her mixture burned the pestilential corpses that threatened the defenders and her illuminations at night thwarted Vandal attacks.
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The Duke's affliction is first reported by the doctor as a ‘very pestilent disease.'
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In truth, we found fevers, violent deaths, pestilential paradises where death and beauty kept charnel-house together.
Chapter 15
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And some pestilent men of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him to accuse him: and the king gave no heed to them.
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Matteo Borrini, who recently excavated an "exorcised" skull from a 16th-century grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, discusses the reality behind belief in malicious, pestilent plague vampires
Uncanny Archaeology
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It's funny how life can oftentimes be like a pestilent 15-year-old.
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But yet as long as I remain in this great hospital, this sick, this diseaseful world, as long as I remain in this leprous house, this flesh of mine, this heart, though thus prepared for thee, prepared by thee, will still be subject to the invasion of malign and pestilent vapours.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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Their passions, tumultuous and merciless as the Tyrrhene Sea, raged indeed with the danger, but also with the uses, of naturally appointed storm; while ours, pacific in corruption, languish in vague maremma of misguided pools; and are pestilential most surely as they retire.
Val d'Arno
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Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease.
Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War