Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. From LearnThat.org. [Percy Shelley (1792-1822)]
Racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I was much struck too with the dirtiness of the people of Palmyra, which dirtiness results in pestilence, ophthalmia, and plagues of flies. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
We have a bad joke about Tabasco, we call it pestilence. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Proposal] Reference
I’m glad the pestilence is fleeing the household. dorothy Said. From Wordnik.com. [Gone So Long | Her Bad Mother] Reference
I mean, those plagues and the pestilence is a little hard to take. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2004] Reference
To this day, a pestilence is the general accompaniment of war in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
A pestilence is a medical physical disease that medical science cannot stop. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007] Reference
Suddenly, they are waking up to the fact, that not all their pestilence are the permutations of outside bigotry. From Wordnik.com. [Vanguard News] Reference
Your pestilence is a quicker remedy, but it has not the grace to make distinction; it huddles up honest men and rogues together. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
What was more, they were the enemies of this very Egypt, and it was clear to him that the pestilence was a visitation from the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Lastly, a corrupt custom is nothing but an epidemical pestilence, which is equally fatal to its objects, though they fall with a multitude. From Wordnik.com. [Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] Reference
That whole area from Villahermosa out to the gulf we have nicknamed "pestilence". From Wordnik.com. [Worst places/worst climates in Mexico?] Reference
The "pestilence" will go broadcast over the whole North; how, may be readily imagined from the events of the late war. From Wordnik.com. [The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member] Reference
Antiochus died by "pestilence" (2 Maccabees 9: 5). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Yemen's UN ambassador calls al-Qaeda a 'pestilence'. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Obama's domestic issues trump foreign policy] Reference
John of Ephesus documented the progress of this "pestilence" in. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
But here we mean "pestilence" as Jacme d'Agramaont, a doctor writing in 1348 described it in reference to the "Black Death". From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
This poisoned stuff then fell down on people's heads, causing all kinds of mischief, such as pestilence, sudden death, storms, etc. ". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
Why does he have to destroy their cities, and bring pestilence and death?. From Wordnik.com. [A Frog in a Well] Reference
There is no great famine, pestilence or war to derail this economic expansion. From Wordnik.com. [Get On Board The Aviation Expansion] Reference
Randy and Vicki applied news events to the war, famine, and pestilence litmus test. From Wordnik.com. [Visions Of The Mark Of The Beast] Reference
But those that remain in Jerusalem shall perish by the sword, famine, and pestilence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
India's last major outbreak of pestilence occurred in 1950, when 18,813 people perished. From Wordnik.com. [The Plaque Of Panic] Reference
We took care to have the priests near us during the voyage, as pestilence soon broke out. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
They were beset by a Biblical array of pestilence: cholera, dysentery, bubonic plague and measles. From Wordnik.com. [A Race With Death] Reference
A young mother among the stricken left a nursing infant, which, with its father, was prostrated by the pestilence. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Better for him, individually, to advocate "war, pestilence, and famine," than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine and by pestilence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
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