How To Use Plaguy In A Sentence
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I am not deprest, I am not ill, but this plaguy suspence worries me sadly sometimes.
Letter 299
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England, and follow your example, I think — turn hermit, or some plaguy thing or other, and see what a constant course of penitence and mortification will do for me.
Clarissa Harlowe
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If we step on shore, the ‘Charadrius caruncula’, a species of plover, a most plaguy sort of “public-spirited individual”, follows you, flying overhead, and is most persevering in its attempts to give fair warning to all the animals within hearing to flee from the approaching danger.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.
PodCastle » 2010 » February
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She gave me a saucy answer, as I was disposed to think it, because I had just then a twinge, that I could scarce bear; for pain is a plaguy thing to a man of my lively spirits.
Pamela
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Say, whither art thou leading this glutton, thou wretched swineherd, this plaguy beggar, a kill-joy of the feast?
Book XVII
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I have found some others nearly equal to her, but they are like white-Black Birds, plaguy rare. —
Letter 209
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'He was plaguy hot at first, but he soon came round, and he hath promised that if I pay for the hire of a dragooner as long as the war shall last I shall have back the piebald.'
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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Being awake when I should have been asleep was very plaguy.
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This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.
PodCastle » PodCastle 89: The Queen’s Triplets
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A pedant angler, I call him, a plaguy angler, so let him huff away, and turn we to thee and to thy sweet charm in fishing for men.
Letters to Dead Authors
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A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these '?
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these "?
The Biglow Papers
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Moreover, how am I to know that this plaguy fellow is actually related to me? —
Saint Ronan's Well
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And sometimes they be so plaguy sulky, they tempt me to give 'em a knock a little matter too hard, and then they'll fall you into a fit, like, and go off in a twinkle. '
Camilla
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On the other hand, there might be a word or two to say about the rigging; if this was not all it should have been, the fault lay entirely with the plaguy considerations of our budget.
The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier
