pestilence

• Suddenly, they are waking up to the fact, that not all their pestilence are the permutations of outside bigotry. —  Vanguard News
• And if I may so say, similarly quick to feel the first breath of the pestilence is the presence of the Christ which cannot dwell with evil. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Mysterious and persistent pestilence is a great tamer of human courage; it is a new experience that man knows not how to meet, and in ancient life it was also a new religious experience The remedy was as new as the pestilence, and almost as pernicious. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• Among these the ravages of eight were most destructive in France; as many in Germany; and four in Italy and England As far as we have hitherto proceeded, it will also appear that cattle are more subject to these diseases than any other species of domesticated animals, and that the pestilence is always most fearful among them. —  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
• In the summer of 1349, while the pestilence was still raging in the north of England, the king, acting on the advice of his Council, issued a proclamation to all the sheriffs and the officials of the larger towns, declaring that the laborers were taking advantage of the needs of their lords to demand excessive wages, and prohibiting them from asking more than had been due and accustomed in the year before the outbreak of the pestilence or for the preceding five or six years. —  An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

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