plague

• He then gave a speech, telling us that the plague was the first battle we had passed through, and that just as the plague had not discriminated between old nobility and new nobility, neither would a blade or a bullet. —  forestmage
• If this plague is as dangerous as he says, this is no time to Do you have to be so bloodthirsty?" —  This World Must Die!
• With his hat still on, he looked at Tom, examined him, and when he found that the emetic he had brought with him, on conjecture from Mary's description, did not act, and that his lancet brought no blood, and that he felt a pulseless wrist, he shook his head, and inwardly thought What the plague is the woman crying for? —  J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
• The peasants believed that the plague was a woman, an evil spirit (_Kutga_), who was destroying the cattle; so they sought to banish her. —  Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul
• Night after night she prayed to God in the dark, and at length the fury of the plague was abated From time to time the failing health of her mother called her home, and from 1870 to 1873 she once more taught school near Belvidere. —  A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

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