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pestilence
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  • The pestilence boils within her blood and must be drained.  (source)
    pestilence = disease
  • Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.  (source)
    pestilence = plague or widespread disease
  • He sent the pestilence among them That did lay schemes against us.  (source)
    pestilence = disease
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  • What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell.  (source)
    pestilence = widespread evil influence
  • And still Eve did not repent, nor all the daughters of Eve, and upon Eve did the Crafty Serpent found a kingdom of whoredoms and pestilences.†  (source)
  • Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.  (source)
    Pestilence = highly infectious disease
  • In the meantime, fate visited a plague on his subjects and tortured them with great pestilences.†  (source)
  • War, pestilence, murder, any kind of ordeal or violence, that's what they respect.†  (source)
  • Such penances had been sent before: the expulsion from Eden, the Flood, pestilences, the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, the Captivity.†  (source)
  • The usual—plague, pestilence, an armed standoff, and the decay of Western civilization, but nothing I can't handle.†  (source)
  • For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.†  (source)
  • Not so much at the nursery rhyme, a phantom song about pestilence and death that had regained popularity in the past decade.†  (source)
  • The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.†  (source)
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