Many cities also went to ruin, and the famine and pestilential state of the air destroyed thousands of men and cattle. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A pestilential malignancy in the air. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War] Reference
At every fair-time "a kind of pestilential fever" raged, so that at least 400 folk were buried there annually during the five or six weeks of the market. From Wordnik.com. [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference
The conventions of dress are sometimes pestilential. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Of course, they assume a very pestilential character. 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
Company's bivouac area rejoiced their pestilential hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
The air was stifling, the rooms pestilential, full of filth and fever. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Atlantic, or was lying rotting in some pestilential mouth of the Orinoco. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The sky is lurid, pestilential; it touches with plague what it illuminates. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
No, not all the gold in the mines would get me to that pestilential plague spot. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
The chill winter and the hot summer found them crowded in their pestilential prisons. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
And then we shall be rid of one of the most pestilential rascals the world has ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Can you, for a little selfish gain, persist in converting the bread of multitudes into pestilential fire?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The uncovering of hundreds of bodies by the recession of the waters has already filled the air with pestilential odors. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Alcuin wrote four other books against the pestilential writings of Elipandus, in which he testifies that Felix was then at. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Captain Drake dropped anchor well away from the shore and its pestilential night mists, and made all snug against the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Hot as it was, I thought they were better off moving than in this pestilential spot, but it was impossible to get Ivan started. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
All this seemed like the very atmosphere of paradise to those little girls, after their dreary sojourn in the pestilential gloom of. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Much has been said of the "pestilential climate of Africa," and the certain doom of those who venture within the spell of its miasma. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
From year to year the pestilential atmosphere creeps forward, narrowing the circles within which it is possible to sustain human life. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Midsummer, and drawn off when a dog-day climate is just ready to convert the rich and slimy sediment of the pond into pestilential vapors. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
This was none other than a pestilential visitation brought into the valleys by the French troops, who were at this time occupying the valleys. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
They garner up happiness and they store the harvest of pain; they make the "majestical roof fretted with golden fire" and the "pestilential cloud.". From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
They are out, like Knights of Fable, to rid the earth of a pestilential monster; and they will not rest until their foot is on his slain monster's head. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
At one time we hear of a fearful storm, attended by immense loss of property; at another, of a pestilential fever brought to the town by foreign vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
"From the charnel-house of the Vienna cabinet," he exclaimed, "a pestilential air breathes on us, which dulls our nerves and paralyses the flight of our spirit.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
I am told that this is the survival of an old custom of placing hyssop before the Bench by way of febrifuge to protect him from pestilential vapours from the dock. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
They were scandalized by a report, which spread with pestilential ease, that I had known my wife but three short weeks when I asked her to walk the long walk with me. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart against me. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Before the month was over, the other Europeans had died from the pestilential climate of Nigeria, and Clapperton, alone with his faithful servant, Richard Lander, pushed on. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Neufeld and several hundred natives who had incurred the Khalifa's ire or distrust were found in a pestilential enclosure less than an acre in extent, surrounded by mud-walls. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
I got upon my dearborn, in order to leave as soon as possible the pestilential atmosphere of New Orleans; and I had just established myself amongst my goods and chattels, when. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
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