vermine

• It was a bitter pill to swallow to have to help the same vermine that got us into this mess but the alternative was worse. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
• So Pharaohs_[x] Magitians could turne water into bloud, their roddes into serpents, produce frogges, &c.; But when it came to the base vermine, to make lice, they were pusled, and acknowledged their imbecillity, confessing, Digitus Dei est_,[u] Gods finger is here, Exod. —  A Treatise of Witchcraft
• They say if they should be buried, it were a great sinne, for of their bodies there would come many wormes and other vermine, and when their bodies were consumed, those wormes would lacke sustenance; which were a sinne, therefore they will be burned. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
• It may proceed from some lurking naturall effect of the Climate; as wee read, that the trauailers who passe the Equinoctiall, doe there lose this manlike hunting vermine, and vpon their returne recouer them againe The other beastes which Cornwall breedeth, serue either for Venerie, or meate, or necessary vses. —  The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue
• It is true, that more misfortunes then one fell on me shortlie after; bot I am sure I could have better forseene them myselfe then rats or any such vermine, and yet did it not. —  A Legend of Montrose

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