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  • Replied the old trot, “As thy head liveth, O my daughter, I will play off higher-class rogueries in Baghdad than ever played Calamity Ahmad or Hasan the Pestilent.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The Pestilent Presidency yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Pestilent Presidency'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Bush is an amateur dictator enraptured and corrupted by absolute power, depending on the army of conditioned Americans to continue his devastation, both in the Middle East and in the United States.

    The Pestilent Presidency 2006

  • Pestilent Tilly was always scheming to provoke such evils, and was always threatening his neighbors with a lawsuit.

    Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

  • This plant was thought to be of great use in the time of the plague, and thus got the names of Pestilent wort, Plague flower and Bog Rhubarb.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Pestilent jacobinical tracts, conceived and composed in the sinks of manufacturing towns -- found their way into the popular beer-house -- heaven knows how, though the Tinker was suspected of being the disseminator by all but Stirn, who still, in a whisper, accused the Papishers.

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

  • The first two (Heshuha and Humana) have the five attributes, members, aeons, or worlds: Pestilent Breath, Scorching

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • That letter is courteously addressed “To the Generation of Anti-Christ, the Pestilent Prelates and their Shavelings within Scotland, the Congregation of Jesus within the same saith.”

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • Pestilent moods had come, and teased away his quiet.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • Pestilent moods had come, and teased away his quiet.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • Pestilent priests paraded the country, and did their utmost to excite religious fanaticism against the Government.

    Persia Revisited Thomas Edward Gordon 1873

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