"That pestiferous youngster!" exclaimed his father. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
He is a most pestiferous giant, with a numerous family. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
Iudgement thei procede against vices moste pestiferous. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
But Ma never admitted anything pestiferous about running the store. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
It seemed easier, he decided, to humour the pestiferous old creature. From Wordnik.com. [Spotted Hemlock]
It is therefore not pestiferous and seldom spreads into neighboring land. From Wordnik.com. [4 Questions and Answers] Reference
He flung them off like a lot of pestiferous puppies, and cleared the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
"See that you do, you pestiferous insect!" threatened Beef McNaughton, ominously. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
Shall we suffer therefore, this our infant to be corrupted with pestiferous milke?. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Swift was provoked by the prototypes of these pestiferous people, to declare that. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
The most pestiferous and difficult to adjust to the law of progress and advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
"Did any one ever hear such a pestiferous child!" said Mr. Button, laughing as he spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat] Reference
"It appears to me," said Ma, "like a post office is as pestiferous a job as a newspaper.". From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Wilhelmine Arend is one of those whom sentimentalism seized like a maddening pestiferous disease. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
West Coast, with its malarial fever and pestiferous mangrove swamps that form the white man's grave. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
'I do not think,' said Major de Blacquaire, 'that I have ever encountered quite so pestiferous a stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
"Low-lying" districts are much talked about just now as breeding-grounds for the pestiferous Influenza microbe. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891] Reference
"The pestiferous creature followed me unseen from the house," Kenkenes explained, rather flushed of countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Where's all that Oh-just-leave-it-to-Hicks stuff you have pulled for the past three years, you pestiferous insect?. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
We have no right to make our bodies pestiferous hospitals to bear about the seeds of disease, weakness, and misery. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Fortunately the vultures and ants, and other useful agents, soon reduced the pestiferous masses to harmless skeletons. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Likewise, the pestiferous water animals seem to invade the homes of Stazza, notwithstanding all efforts at prevention. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
After a while a pestiferous and annoying creature of the insect kind appeared in the guise of the Ro-tay-yo (a huge mosquito). From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
During the campaigning, the candidate Kibaki was injured (UNINTELLIGIBLE), leaving him in plaster, immobilized but pestiferous. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2002] Reference
For two days the men are without food, but worse still are the pestiferous air, the loathsome water, and the suffering of the wounded. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
That dense creamy vapour, formed by the pestiferous exhalations of the lowlands, is the death shroud of the plain outstretched beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
THe theife, or any other iniurious persone, doeth seke to bée aboue all lawes, exempted from all order, vn - der no obedience, their pestiferous dealyng, dooe vt. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
I have slept within its problematical range, and that was off that pestiferous bit of coast near Epidaurus, and I fancy at a season when the marshes had not their steam up. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
This troublous state, all Regions and common wealthes, haue felte in open sedicions and tumul - tes, raised by theim, it is a plagued and pestiferous kinde of gouernemente. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
HErein the lose and dissolute state of gouernmente called of the Grekes Democratia, haue conten - ted the wilfull heddes of pestiferous men: where - in euery man must bee a ruler. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
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