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And I began to imagine every kind of pestilent disaster. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
"This man is a pestilent fellow," said the community. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
War a pestilent disease is on the body of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
"'Tis all one to me, but the march is pestilent dull.". From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
He fell ill in that pestilent town, as all the world knows. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
Indeed, most American mosquitoes are more pesky than pestilent. From Wordnik.com. [No Mickey Mouse] Reference
Rather bring the more pestilent to submission by gentleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
A month later those pestilent "books from Geneva" turn up again. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
But first, as it was important to know how numerous those pestilent. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
By the upper classes he is abhorred as a specially obnoxious and pestilent person. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Sháfa'í's logic on the audience that they put Hafs to death as a pestilent heretic. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Under various names they are scattering their pestilent doctrines through the country. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Now as ill-luck would have it the first barber I lighted upon was this pestilent fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
"'Art a late bird, as usual, and I am at that pestilent task the rehearsal of a speech.". From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Britain had got to be regarded as the most pestilent, intrusive, mischief-making of neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
Her books were denounced as pestilent, and the public advised against maintaining her acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Augustus waxed daily more grievous; and some strongly suspected the pestilent practices of his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Spanish name of their burning Ague: for as I tolde you before, it is a very burning and pestilent ague. From Wordnik.com. [Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage] Reference
My lord, said Justice Chester, he is a pestilent fellow; there is not such a fellow in the country again. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Martial, in mentioning the hour of death, celebrates salubrious Tibur at the expense of this pestilent isle. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Ships of war would soon clear the coast of pestilent sea-robbers, and give free scope to trade and navigation. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
"We condemne the damnable" Ideirco detestor omnes haereses and pestilent heresies of Arius, huic principio contrarias. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
"Prithee man, get into the carriage out of this pestilent throng, that I may the better hear thee," said the governor. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
They were treated as pestilent fanatics because they bravely held up the ideal of the Republic, and sought to make it real. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
Fabullus, to whom it was addressed, was companion to his friend Verannius -- and both were with the pestilent Piso, in Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
'We've got to put our shoulder to the wheel, and leave no stone unturned to find Alick, and carry him out of this pestilent hole.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
It is more likely that the pestilent fever of the winter was a respiratory disease rather than a disorder resulting from "stinking beer.". From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
A "pestilent sickness" again visited the city in the autumn of 1629 — brought over from Holland or Rochelle — and remained until 1631. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Gerard says: "If you do but take a piece of the root, and hold it in your mouth, or chew the same between your teeth, it doth most certainly drive away pestilent aire.". From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
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