That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had. ". From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
No, the War isn't missed; there's a murrain of strikes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference
‘A murrain on the young devils!’ cried the stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
It will run along like murrain in cattle, scab in sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
“A murrain on you both,” said the charitable mediator. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
A murrain on your monster, and the Devil take your fingers!. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
A murrain on that cavalier, -- king's brother, or what not!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
A murrain take that box! everything is spoiled that is in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
Such a remedy for the Potato murrain has yet to be discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
“It is out of distance,” said he, “and a murrain on the bird!”. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
If I cannot send disease into families, and murrain among the herds, can. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
The fifth plague was murrain -- a disease that broke out among the cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
You would be deriving me from William the Conqueror, with a murrain to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
“What a murrain had you to do with the dead body, then?” said the Archer. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
The cattle that ate of it were attacked by a murrain, of which great numbers died. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
The crops were spoiled, the animals sickened "and cattle died of a murrain everywhere.". From Wordnik.com. ['Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution'] Reference
London was burnt to the ground, a great murrain of cattle happened for the first time in the. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
Fortunately, however, true murrain is comparatively rare in this great stock-raising country. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
"There's no more cure," said he, "for death in a common herd than for the same murrain in an ensign of foot.". From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
“I meant no harm; and his worship knows it, none better: but where is Raleigh going to send us, with a murrain?”. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
It is one of the most fearful characteristics of murrain; it is the destructive accompaniment, or consequence, of phthisis. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Yes, far worse, than frogs and lice, and locusts, and flies, and murrain of beasts, and biles on man, and darkness all combined. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
“Why is not the rogue at Oxford, with a murrain on him, instead of lurching about here carrying tales and ogling the maidens?”. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
A perfect murrain of them infests Holland; they seem to have nothing in the world to do but throw stones and mud at foreign yachts. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
The love of life slowly returned; but the means to sustain that life had been destroyed by murrain, the grasshoppers, and the drought. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"It is out of distance," said he, "and a murrain on the bird!". From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
"What a murrain had you to do with the dead body, then?" said the. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
It happened, about this period, that a sort of murrain fell upon the. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
Young and old, him that bids and him that bids not, a murrain seize you all!. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
In England the plague was soon accompanied by a fatal murrain among the cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference
"Now a murrain on all women, black and white!" swore Mahommed Khan beneath his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Told in the East] Reference
When your sheep died of the murrain you hung up their hides to dry -- in the schoolhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Wrath] Reference
"A murrain on the hag! she does not even struggle!" said, at last, the hump-backed tinker. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
"A murrain on such pagan thirst!" exclaimed he who had been toasted, snatching the cup away. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon of Wantley His Tale] Reference
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