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  • You may be brothers; for treason, like the plague,

    The Duchess of Malfi 2007

  • I thank them; and would send them back the plague,

    The Life of Timon of Athens 2004

  • St. Boisal was the Prior, and, when he died of the plague,

    Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

  • Among the human diseases, yellow fever, poliomyelitis, and dengue are so produced; of the animal diseases in addition to foot and mouth disease, pleuropneumonia, cattle plague,

    Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman

  • Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague,

    Chicago Poems 1916

  • Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague,

    Cripple 1916

  • Where they perished, there they lay, till at length their bodies bred a plague,

    Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • "Et quasi cursores vitai; lampada tradunt;" or of the helplessness of medicine in time of plague,

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • Catherine walked in, and I stood waiting till she had conducted the invalid to a chair, expecting her out immediately; when Mr. Heathcliff, pushing me forward, exclaimed -- 'My house is not stricken with the plague,

    Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833

  • In the feeling communicated to me by the sight of one struck by the plague,

    II.7 1826

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