How To Use Scourge In A Sentence
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The rage and the disappointment of the admiral were beyond all bounds; what to him was the value of the capture of Aisa, of the Turkish alcaid, of the ten thousand of the baser sort; nay, what to him was the value of "Africa" itself when once again like a mocking spirit Dragut had glided beyond the sea horizon to devastate, to plunder, and to slay once more, the scourge and the menace of
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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Washington, who believed liquor a particular scourge among blacks, sent felicitations.
LAST CALL
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No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
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Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.
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It is a scourge to a sinful land; as once it was for the destruction of the whole world, so it is now often for the correction or discipline of some parts of it, by hindering seedness and harvest, raising the waters, and damaging the fruits.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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With new efforts to try to manage this killer disease it is important that nations begin tackling some of the problems that fuel the scourge.
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If we raise this money now, we will be preventing future generations from suffering this age-old scourge.
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In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like malaria and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
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This must change if we are to tackle this scourge on our streets.
The Sun
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After the scourge of war came the scourge of disease.
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Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
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Behring, however, who announced, in 1913, his production of a mixture of this kind, and subsequent work which modified and refined the mixture originally produced by Behring resulted in the modern methods of immunization which have largely banished diphtheria from the scourges of mankind.
Emil von Behring - Biography
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Starting in the '40s as a legman for Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column of gossip and scandal, Anderson had absolute faith in himself as a righteous scourge, even if he had to pay bribes and root through other people's garbage cans to get scoops.
The dirty dance between Anderson and Nixon
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Compare as to a similar scourge of unsparing trial, Job 9: 23. it shall be no more -- the scepter, that is, the state, must necessarily then come to an end.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In my view, active military intervention was necessary to end this scourge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smallpox was (the WHO declared it eradicated in 1977) a very ancient scourge related to, and possibly deriving from, one of the various animal poxes.
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He lay awake,[Sentencedict] scourged by his conscience.
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Another knock is the fact that Sir Lawrence Olivier 'plays' Totenkopf, the evil mastermind behind the robot scourge.
Review - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
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His feeble attempts to rid himself of his passion for her had been more to humour his scourged pride than to release him from subjection.
DANSVILLE
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He was largely responsible for the purging of the Moscow region and in 1938 and was transferred to the Ukraine to scourge the party there.
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Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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A night to bring any man to contemplate the dogged scourge of Lady Fortune's whip with a jaundiced eye.
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This was the more proper because, in a few years after the beginning of the community, European revolutionists were to be scourged with the Syllabus, whose every word agonized the souls of unworthy advocates of liberty.
Life of Father Hecker
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Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream?
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When road conditions became worse, juddering was transmitted through the steering column and scuttle shake, that scourge of open-tops, occurred.
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The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated.
Latest News
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And neither are condemnatory statements and protests, although they do serve the purpose of highlighting this scourge in our society.
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North Sea waves, he saw the sharp-beaked fighting galleys, and the sea-flung Northmen, great-muscled, deep-chested, sprung from the elements, men of sword and sweep, marauders and scourgers of the warm south-lands!
CHAPTER 14
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The scourge of McCarthyism made everyone a believer for fear of being labeled a commie pinko.
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Aids has been described as the scourge of the modern world.
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He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin ', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell.
Archive 2009-06-01
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During the four following months it goes in and out, and strolls about between meals, like other young ones of its class, and is then an animal at nurse affording thus a twofold example of the tendency of the great Creator to repeat Himself in His conceptions, here using for the infancy of the mammal the system invented for adult insects -- elsewhere repeating the butterfly in the humming-bird, who may fairly be called a vertebrated butterfly, and reproducing the gnat in the vampire-bat, which I look upon as an enlarged and perfected revise of the original pattern, whence comes the scourge of our sweet summer nights.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
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Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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Air pollution was once primarily the scourge of megacities like London, where coal smoke killed 4,000 people over one week in 1952.
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Further north the scourge of tsetse fly, vector of the disease nagana, limited the use of cattle as draught.
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Some of the explorers died during subsequent skirmishes, but in nothing like the numbers of the natives who suffered from introduced scourges like syphilis, which the French and the British always sanctimoniously blamed on each other.
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One of the worst scourges of Africa and one that is to-day attracting world-wide attention is the disease known as trypanosomiasis, the terminal phase of which is sleeping sickness, one of the most ghastly diseases that we know.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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With all those amazing new developments and breakthroughs, why haven't we cured this scourge?
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Once a scourge of the inner city, heroin use has spread to deprived rural areas and small towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has become the scourge of Cape Town.
Times, Sunday Times
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The colonist detested him for his exactions, while his soldiery were a scourge to every district they were quartered upon.
The Story of Ireland
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American privateering scourged British commerce during the Revolution, and some U.S. Navy skippers like John Paul Jones won famous single-ship victories.
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The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects, while vermin, such as the suslik (_Spermophilus_), become a real plague, as also the destructive insects which have been a scourge to agriculture during recent years.
Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
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The recent scourge of illegal drugs in our nation has become a plague which negatively affects all of us, especially the youth in our society whom we value as our country's future.
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The police do not seem to have the resources or the will to tackle this new scourge.
The Sun
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Mean and nasty and the scourge of the local wildlife but we loved him all the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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This will help to put a permanent end to the scourge of fuel poverty and bring our homes up to 21st-century standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tendency to use crime in order to score political points can only play into the hands of criminals as it disunites the efforts of fighting this scourge.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Now the Alliance and Horde have come to confront the malefic Lich King and put an end to the Scourge.
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They have delivered real change on the ground and rid communities of the scourge of drugs.
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Capitalism is incapable of ending the scourge of unemployment.
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[Footnote IV. 1: _Translate: _] Interpret.] [Footnote IV. 2: _In this brainish apprehension_,] Distempered, brainsick mood.] [Footnote IV. 3: _Where the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But never the offence.
Hamlet
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To them Peak Oil is the divine scourge which will return us to a time when we all lived in communitarian harmony with our neighbors and grew our own vegetables (organically, natch).
Fighting over oil « BuzzMachine
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Mean and nasty and the scourge of the local wildlife but we loved him all the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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Go to, sir, know yourself, or the master of the household shall make you know you are liable to the scourge as a malapert boy.
The Abbot
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The cruel captain used a scourge on his disobedient sailor.
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I'm fucking for God! maybe Dr. King is the scourge of GOD.
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The sentence of the court was carried out by a scourger, sometimes called flagellator, or flogger.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
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From the buzzing hive of contradictions that frequently scourge the truly gifted, there are strong signs that McEnroe wanted to do something entirely different.
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He is best known for his work on the disease pellagra, the ‘scourge of the south,’ in which he discovered that the cause of pellagra was a dietary insufficiency, later identified as vitamin B niacin.
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There may be some short-term blips, but for defeating "the scourge of terrorism in the Islamic world, the 'Arab revolt' is the best possible news," .
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth.
God's Plan with Men
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One dragged a huge chain wherever he went, another an ouranoutang, whilst a third was furnished with scourges, and all performed to a charm; some clambered up trees, holding one foot in the air; others poised themselves over a fire, and without mercy filliped their noses.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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He branded unpaid internships'a scourge on social mobility '.
The Sun
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Rabbits are considered pests, being a scourge on crops and the natural environment.
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Government plans to tackle the scourge will be unveiled this week.
The Sun
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The Brevarius of Jerusalem (c. 436) mentions in the pretorium "a great basilica called St. Sophia, with a chapel, cubiculum, where our Lord was stripped of his garments and scourged".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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It's an attack of poison ivy, teenage angst and the blues all rolled into one unscratchable scourge.
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After a criminal's condemnation, it was the custom for a victim to be scourged with the flagellum, a whip with leather throngs.
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Nevertheless, her Highness, considering the ease as one of human frailty, hath not caused this wanton one to be scourged with nettles, or otherwise to dree penance; but, as two good brethren of the convent of Lindores, the Fathers Thickskull and
The Fair Maid of Perth
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I'd have used the word plague, but no, scourge works just as nicely.
Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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It has become the scourge of Cape Town.
Times, Sunday Times
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For tens of thousands of employees it has become the feared scourge of our society.
Times, Sunday Times
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I likewise promise that I shall not be obliged to fetch blood with the scourge.
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Aids has been described as the scourge of the modern world.
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He lay awake, scourged by his conscience.
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One of the notes stuck into abandoned dog mess by the mysterious Pooperman, current scourge of Lincoln's befouled streets.
This week: Oliver Letwin, Glenn Beck, Charlie Sheen
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No-one is under any illusion that drugs are the scourge of modern-day society.
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The distraction is rooted in acedia, the ancient soul-scourge about which the church fathers knew and wrote so much.
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Beattie stripped him of all his assumed dignity, and having laid his back bare, scourged him till he smarted keenly, and cursed again.
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And in many parts of the word afflicted by the scourge of war, innocent people have not ceased being murdered, mutilated, or dragged or driven from their homes.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell.
Monsters from the Id
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Now, four years into Benedicts's pontificate and nearly 100 days into Kirill's patriarchate, nearly all Vatican observers agree that, as Pope John Paul II was driven by the desire to end the scourge of atheist Communism, so Pope Benedict XVI still hopes passionately to see the restoration of a unified Church.
Ecumenism
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He warns us against the scourge of "protectionism," an inevitable response to the global imbalances his activist inflationary policies have fostered.
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Despite huge initiatives and lavish spending, vast stretches of Asia and Africa continue to be afflicted by the scourges of hunger and disease.
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But a growing body of international scientific and environmental opinion sees fluoride as nothing more than a poisonous pollutant, profitably and misleadingly rebadged as the scourge of dental caries.
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Taking a flail, the priestess scourged the body of the horse.
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* [619] In an article on the successful preventive treatment of tetanus neonatorum, or the ` ` scourge of St. Kilda, '' of the new-born, Turner 15.198 says the first mention of trismus nascentium or tetanus neonatorum was made by Rev. Kenneth Macaulay in 1764, after a visit to the island of St. Kilda in 1758.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He continued to scourge the defence with two more fine points from play, although there was an element of doubt about the first one.
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My feet have fallen in evil ways but Thou hast brought me forth scatheless and hast made me a scourge for the Powers of Evil.
Wings in the Night
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And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Irish asphalt-layers, the scourge of suburbia, have reached Norway.
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They cannot afford to become the scourge of their generous donors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The anopheles mosquito, carrying the scourge of malaria, was the unwitting executioner of thousands of European soldiers sent to garrisons in the West Indies, Africa, or India.
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Though the yellowstone houses are pitted with the scourge of ball and mitraille, the streets are safe.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
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Before a storme flewe neuer Doues so fast, As _Spanyards_ from the furie of his fist, The stout _Reuenge_, about whose forlorne wast, Whilome so many in their moods persist, Now all alone, none but the scourge imbrast, Her foes from handie combats cleane desist; Yet still incirkling her within their powers, From farre sent shot, as thick as winters showers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The Sun has long campaigned for more to be done to tackle this scourge.
The Sun
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The street is the latest in Swindon where normal life has been ruined by the scourge of anti-social behaviour.
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This will help to put a permanent end to the scourge of fuel poverty and bring our homes up to 21st-century standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forty-four Republican senators vowed to block anyone unless and until they were satisfied that Congress would have real control over the corporation-killing, lefty jabberwocky sired by those scourges of economic growth, Senator Dodd and Representative Frank.
Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No
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So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago -- and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!
Roger Hickey: McCain's Radical Health Plan, Once Ignored, Now Hotly Debated
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His epigrams (most of which are contained in _The Scourge of Folly_, undated, like others of his books) are by no means despicable; the Welsh ancestors, whom he did not fail to commemorate, seem to have endowed him with some of that faculty for lampooning and "flyting" which distinguished the Celtic race.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Like every city, Sheffield suffers from the scourge of nuisance neighbours, but has taken a leading role in trying to address the problem.
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And while sophisticated, clever and highly seductive, today's inflationism is a more dangerous scourge than ever.
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His little band of fighters scourged settlements on both sides of the Mexican boundary and stood off armies of two nations.
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Its tops, however, were crowded with marksmen, and armed with brass coehorns, firing langrage shot, and these scourged with a pitiless and most deadly fire the decks of the _Victory_, while the _Bucentaure_ and the gigantic _Santissima Trinidad_ also thundered on the British flagship.
Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
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They would go in bunched, the pinnaces ahead; they and the Space-Scourge would go down to the ground, while the better-armed Nemesis would hover above to fight off local contragravity, shoot down missiles, and generally provide overhead cover.
Space Viking
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I didn't hear the Undead story, but it was in wide screen format and the camera moved through the Undead starter town while a lower voice explained how the Undead broke off from The Scourge.
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How did a handful of eccentrics from the '30's, thinkers who were often amazed to learn of any other human being on earth who agreed with them, blossom into the scourge of the blogosphere?
The Triumph of Libertarianism: Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!
Election Central Saturday Roundup
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A night to bring any man to contemplate the dogged scourge of Lady Fortune's whip with a jaundiced eye.
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As an extreme example of the Breakthrough Phenomenon, the scourge of hi-jacking is quite fascinating.
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In my view, active military intervention was necessary to end this scourge.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are the scourge in our society.
The Sun
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North Sea waves, he saw the sharp-beaked fighting galleys, and the sea-flung Northmen, great-muscled, deep-chested, sprung from the elements, men of sword and sweep, marauders and scourgers of the warm south-lands!
CHAPTER 14
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I sometimes wonder if what we call luck is merely the will of God, " Otero observed sadly, -and that therefore Cochrane has been sent to scourge Spain for a reason.
Sharpe's Devil
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At first glance there would seem to be few similarities between Jilly Cooper, the queen of bodice-ripping romance, Vivienne Westwood, fashion's enfant terrible, and Professor Richard Dawkins, scourge of religion.
From David Attenborough to Delia Smith, the best of the grey power list
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Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
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With the 147, the two main buts are an uncouth ride, and, of course, the familiar scourge of powerful front wheel drive cars - torque steer.
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Player's Scourge or Actor's Tragedie_, a thick quarto of over one thousand closely printed pages, which bore on the title-page the imprint, '_printed by E.A. and W.J. for Michael Sparke_.'
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
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His great ruling principle, however, originated in what he termed a godless system of religious liberality; in other words, he attributed all the calamities and scourges of the land to the influence of Popery. and its toleration by the powers that be.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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He was involved, as a medical scientist, in work on eradicating two great scourges - poliomyelitis and rabbits.
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In response to this serious social scourge the Ministry of Interior has issued an order to stop processing gun licenses.
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While alcohol is the number one problem, the scourge of drugs is also placing increasing pressure on the centre and its 17 permanent staff.
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Eight hundred years have passed since the Great Conflict scourged the world and covered it in shadow.
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Straddling two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers, the country is regularly drowned by flood crests surging downstream or scourged by whirlwinds from the sea.
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This must change if we are to tackle this scourge on our streets.
The Sun
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Since the overwhelming majority of us are connected to the electricity grid, gas mains or both, the scourge of indoor air pollution is not a killer.
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What is most alarming is that food price rises are affecting new communities who had previously been protected from the scourge of hunger.
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Common scourges found in the desert include plague, typhus, malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, cholera, and typhoid.
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He had been its implacable scourge, its unbending critic, preaching and practising austerity and revenge.
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The Abbeyleix Park Development committee say that they are still scourged with the amount of dog fouling in and around the Fr. John Breen Memorial Park.
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Fixed a terrain glitch near the Scourge Secret Shop.
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Corruption as a vice affects people from all walks of life and it is important that everybody and anybody, who is willing and able, should be involved to fight the scourge that is eating at the heart of our society today.
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And you can't really imagine the people round here jumping up and down with excitement shouting: ‘Hooray, she has delivered our children from the scourge of rickets.’
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To be punished by the scourge of the seas was not a particularly happy thought.
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But as critic, scourge, and gadfly he is in the league of Socrates and Voltaire.
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Roosevelt later saw poverty's spreading scourge, "millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster (hung) over them day by day .... one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished.
Systemic Failure: Capitalism "Lays an Egg"
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The cruel captain used a scourge on his disobedient sailor.
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At last it can be said that the West, after decades of deafness, is slowly coming around to fight this scourge of economic crime that is the gangrene of development in Africa and that fattens black money in Europe and around the world.
Global Voices in English » Paris court investigates three African leaders
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The author of the report on the practical efforts of Dublin mothers against the heroin scourge supported the call for more resources to be made available.
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Then came the exposure of the population to the threat of piracy, a scourge which the Spanish tried to counteract throughout their viceroyalties with fortifications.
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Two assistants of the torturer bathed the lacerated shoulders of the culprit, applied to them some kind of unguent which immediately closed the wounds, and threw over his back a yellow cloth shaped like a chasuble; Pierrat Torterue meanwhile letting the blood drain from the lashes of his scourge in great drops on to the ground.
IV. A Tear for a Drop of Water. Book VI
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The procedure for the trial, whose expenses are unknown to the parties until after the damage has been inflicted, is a scourge for every person unlearned in law.
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Inflation was the scourge of the 1970s.
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Members of the public must also recognise that they have a role to play in stamping out graft and must therefore resist all temptations to engage in the scourge.
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They were men who did public penance and scourged themselves with whips of hard knotted leather with little iron spikes.
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The UN Charter spoke of delivering the world from the scourge of war - we never learn.
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Alone, but with unbated zeal, The horseman plied with scourge and steel;
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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Graffiti disfiguring our public and private buildings is a scourge of modern society.
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For tens of thousands of employees it has become the feared scourge of our society.
Times, Sunday Times
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A thick layer of scourge slime ensured that no one was going in or out of the dining room.
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It, indeed, sent the stylite to his pillar, the hermit to the wilderness, the ascetic to the scourge and hair-cloth shirt; but it also led the warrior to the Holy Land, the beggar to the castle-hearth, and the workman to the building of the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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One of the greatest scourges afflicting Indigenous peoples in Canada is given only token attention, he said.
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No longer Richmond Taylor, wealthy financier and gadabout, he now stood tall as that dark mystery of the night, that scourge of terror and nemesis to all evildoers: The Black Hand!
Free Excerpt 4/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
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Certainly that remarkable man was an "epicurean" -- but one, to quote Meredith, "whom Epicurus would have scourged out of his garden"; and the statement made by the critic in question that _The Renaissance_ is the book referred to in _The
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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I will farther, in the sequel, give the answers of some physicians abroad to a set of questions which I was led to propose to them, by considering that should a lazaretto be erected among us, and this country be ever visited with a scourge so dreadful as the plague, the opinions of eminent physicians experienced in this calamity might be of particular service.
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Rain lashed from the angry sky, icy scourges flailing Alex's head and shoulders as soon as she stepped out of the Gate she had used to escape the tunnels.
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The Italians in Europe called the scourge "rough skin" -- pelle agra.
Dan Agin: Reality Check: National Health Care is National Security
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There is something naughtily alluring now about these young women who don't need to spend a second fretting over that scourge of the contemporary female: work/life balance.
Stewardesses and Bunnies of Yore
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Am I talking about that vile new scourge, black tar heroin?
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Organised crime continues to be the perpetual scourge of Milanese civic life.
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Both gave short speeches on how to tackle the scourge of unemployment and took questions from the apprentices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Combine viruses with the scourge of spam and you have two heavy anchors dragging down Irish productivity.
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The police do not seem to have the resources or the will to tackle this new scourge.
The Sun
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‘Bill suffered the scourge of asthma all his life,’ he said.
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Common scourges found in the desert include plague, typhus, malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, cholera, and typhoid.
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Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: “Learning, quotha!” said he; “I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!”
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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These once-a-year events, where the city's vagrants would move from the warm soup factories in the north to their usual habitat of the Strongbow breweries in the city's south, were the scourge of the middle classes.
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Crews responding to the blaze Wednesday also had to battle bedbugs, the bloodsucking insects quickly becoming the scourge of households and businesses across the country.
Denver Firefighters Battle Bedbugs Escaping From Burning House
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Zambia has been suffering from the scourge of fuel smuggling across borders because of its central location, the Energy Regulations Board has said.
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Government plans to tackle the scourge will be unveiled this week.
The Sun
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So why is it that this terrible scourge has essentially disappeared from our cultural consciousness?
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In this regard, the menace of bio-terrorism can be seen as usefully clarifying, since it eliminates all pretence to political legitimacy and announces itself starkly as a planetary scourge.
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They cannot afford to become the scourge of their generous donors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the scourge of ‘childbed fever.’
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It is also mercifully free of molehills, which are the scourge of our sandy garden.
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Though we might continue to admire the sentiments that he set forth, most of the Western world has been rudely awakened to a global struggle in which democracy, freedom and pluralism are identified by adherents of radical Islam as a scourge that must be eradicated from the world.
Rabbi Sid Schwarz: The Necessity of Jewish Values in the Contemporary World
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Diseases such as malaria were endemic, while blackwater fever, dengue fever, dysentery, yaws, and hookworms were a constant scourge.
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Once a scourge of the inner city, heroin use has spread to deprived rural areas and small towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin ', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell.
Archive 2009-06-01
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As an extreme example of the Breakthrough Phenomenon, the scourge of hi-jacking is quite fascinating.
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To prevent the highly infectious scourge, Turner is vigilant about daily hoof cleaning and treatment with iodine.
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Meeting survivors of domestic abuse and hearing their shocking stories has made me all the more determined to put a stop to this scourge on our society.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the overwhelming majority of us are connected to the electricity grid, gas mains or both, the scourge of indoor air pollution is not a killer.
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Representatives of the Argent Dawn, the in-game NPC faction responsible for combatting "the Scourge" the Undead quickly established "healers" in capital cities who destroyed proximal zombies and cured proximal players and NPCs afflicted with the 10-min countdown debuff.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Speaking of zombies
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570 Then she took from her side a plaited scourge and came down with it on my back and the place where I sit till her forearms were benumbed and I fainted away from the much beating; when she said to the handmaids, “Take him and carry him to the Chief of Police, that he may strike off the hand wherewith he ate of the cumin ragout, and which he did not wash.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Less certain is the recorded use of knotted scourges in performing penance, and the existence of a peculiar kind of auricular confession.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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Subdued his flesh with a sharp chain and a hair-shirt, slept on the ground and scourged hi flesh with iron disciplines.
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Glasgow's neds, it seems, are a scourge of visiting goths - some of whom flock from as far afield as Airdrie, Clydebank and even Stirling to hang about with birds of their leather.
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Although there are no legal improprieties in such arrangements, they are the scourge of governments around the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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This three-foot-wide creature, which lives solely on hard-shelled mollusks, is a scourge of oystermen; a school of 3,000 rays can pick an oyster bed clean in an afternoon.
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In an era when so many of our young people are falling victim of the drink and drug scourge that is sweeping across the country like a typhoon, I had a lot of my lost faith in our youth restored last week.
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Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: “Learning, quotha!” said he; “I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!”
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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Since buying their way back to power with the people's own money, they have scourged the country with a series of random and ill-thought out cutbacks.
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Those Scandinavian freebooters called Northmen, and later Normans, were the scourge of the kingdom.
A Short History of France
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Its legs splayed out, occasionally twitching, and its dead body quickly began to stink of rotting Scourge.
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Both gave short speeches on how to tackle the scourge of unemployment and took questions from the apprentices.
Times, Sunday Times
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And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
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Meeting survivors of domestic abuse and hearing their shocking stories has made me all the more determined to put a stop to this scourge on our society.
Times, Sunday Times
