toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

pestilence
in a sentence

show 152 more with this conextual meaning
  • 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)
  • And yet they survived, displaying the same obstinacy and fortitude that kept their ancestors in Palancar Valley despite famine, war, and pestilence.†   (source)
  • There's no pestilence in you, Gray.†   (source)
  • What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell.†   (source)
  • To Nicolas, Amanda's hostility was like a pestilence that had descended between them.†   (source)
  • Rivers of fire …. bloodthirsty Vikings …. pestilence so thick you can't breathe …. and mixed into all that, like some devilish bouillabaisse, bird knows how many wights and hollowgast!"†   (source)
  • In the meantime, fate visited a plague on his subjects and tortured them with great pestilences.†   (source)
  • Of pestilence!†   (source)
  • If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help— Simon knew he couldn't pray.†   (source)
  • If these matters are not attended to, the stench arising from such places will soon breed a pestilence in the camp.†   (source)
  • So how could he have been touched by the city's pestilence?†   (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)
  • Viserys had oft claimed that Targaryens were untroubled by the pestilences that afflicted common men, and so far as she could tell, it was true.†   (source)
  • There was a time when human beings crouched in caves, at the mercy of any pestilence and any storm.†   (source)
  • He is fire and death and pestilence.†   (source)
  • She shook her head and sighed a sigh the magnitude of one sighed for murder and pestilence.†   (source)
  • He'd spent years working around the world for the WHO and CDC, tracking down emerging diseases and potential pestilences.†   (source)
  • And then, home on leave, he'd found the pale and musing blind girl standing there soft as a flag beside an oak tree with burning green leaves--or, rather, the nearly blind girl: at that time she had sight enough to be put in charge of younger children from the Blind School, to lead them around laughing like circus people in time of pestilence, help them with their schoolwork, or, like the eldest orphaned child, punish them when they were bad.†   (source)
  • It was as if the plague had broken out in a country and news had been spreading around that in one or another place there was a man, a wise man, a knowledgeable one, whose word and breath was enough to heal everyone who had been infected with the pestilence, and as such news would go through the land and everyone would talk about it, many would believe, many would doubt, but many would get on their way as soon as possible, to seek the wise man, the helper, just like this this myth ran…†   (source)
  • The healer woman put a comfrey salve on it to draw out the pestilence.†   (source)
  • There is a great debate about this pestilence.†   (source)
  • Not until this pestilence has left my lungs.†   (source)
  • It's the only way to destroy the pestilence.†   (source)
  • For bringing us through these days of pestilence, we thank you.†   (source)
  • It is a pleasure to see you survived the terrible pestilence.†   (source)
  • —Philip Freneau, Pestilence: Written During the Prevalence of a Yellow Fever, 1793.†   (source)
  • —Philip Freneau, Pestilence: Written During the Prevalence of a Yellow Fever, 1793.†   (source)
  • The pestilence boils within her blood and must be drained.†   (source)
  • The only creatures to benefit from this pestilence are the rats.†   (source)
  • He drained blood from them (a common practice) to get rid of the "pestilence" in their bodies.†   (source)
  • "They are full of the pestilence," she said grimly.†   (source)
  • That is pestilence, not peace, the old knight told himself with his last sip of wine.†   (source)
  • From this I believe we can grasp how this pestilence spreads, and to whom.†   (source)
  • If anyone can write a pestilence, how do you fight it?†   (source)
  • The gods have sent this pestilence to humble me.†   (source)
  • My father was fighting a war against letumosis, the pestilence that has ravaged our planet for over a dozen years.†   (source)
  • At the height of the Pestilence, when hundreds were dying every day, most of the bodies were hauled to the outskirts and burned.†   (source)
  • They wanted to know what kind of pestilence they carried on board, how many passengers there were, how many of them were sick, what possibility there was for new infections.†   (source)
  • When the chamber was clean, Madam told me to open the windows again and let them stand open all afternoon to make sure there was no lingering pestilence in the air.†   (source)
  • Dad had heard about the camp a few weeks back, when Mom started showing early symptoms of the Pestilence.†   (source)
  • It still smelled faintly of the Pestilence (a little like soured milk), and the bleach hadn't removed all the bloodstains.†   (source)
  • "—and there was this one lad, ooh, he'd had his hand blown clean off and a grubby bandage wrapped round his wrist, and I looked at that and I said to myself, That arm's coming off next, young man, and maybe your leg for good measure' on account of a noxious pestilence that filled the air.†   (source)
  • 3rd Wave: pestilence.†   (source)
  • The Pestilence.†   (source)
  • Abigail, in her letters that spring, had questionedwhether the passion for liberty could be "equally strong in the breasts of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow creatures of theirs," and had earlier pondered whether the agonies of pestilence and war could be God's punishment for the sin of slavery.†   (source)
  • "How can we talk of peace while the Lannisters spread like a pestilence over my father's domains, stealing his crops and slaughtering his people?†   (source)
  • She did not even raise her eyes to pity her on the afternoon when Amaranta went into the kitchen and put her hand into the coals of the stove until it hurt her so much that she felt no more pain but instead smelled the pestilence of her own singed flesh.†   (source)
  • The great threats to the nation, Adams warned, were sophistry, the spirit of party, and "the pestilence of foreign influence."†   (source)
  • If that's not the explanation, then I must invoke a disinterested God who leaves us to our own devices, neither causing nor preventing tornadoes or pestilence, but a God who will now and then stick his thumb on the spinning wheel so that a father who put a continent between himself and his sons should find himself in the same room as one of them.†   (source)
  • She saw with quiet impotence how the deluge was pitilessly exterminating a fortune that at one time was considered the largest and most solid in Macondo, and of which nothing remained but pestilence.†   (source)
  • To work-with no chance to rise, with your meals and your clothes and your home and your pleasure depending on any swindle, any famine, any pestilence anywhere on earth.†   (source)
  • Reports of what was happening in Paris would not reach America for months, but accounts of the "pestilence" in Philadelphia filled the newspapers soon enough.†   (source)
  • The first was to tell the earl that he believed the pestilence was fled at last and to beg that the roads to the village be reopened.†   (source)
  • We sang then, against the roar of the burning, the Psalm that we had sung countless times since the Plague came: "Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence that IN alketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.†   (source)
  • See him there, that angel of the pestilence, comely as Lucifer, shining like Evil's very self!†   (source)
  • The service had been short, as a precaution against the pestilence which was everywhere.†   (source)
  • This was one of the tricks the pestilence had of diverting attention and confounding issues.†   (source)
  • This same pestilence which is slaying you works for your good and points your path.†   (source)
  • And, in fact, the balefires of the pestilence were blazing ever more merrily in the crematorium.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric.†   (source)
  • They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.†   (source)
  • That's why I say there are pestilences and there are victims; no more than that.†   (source)
  • Will Pentland, true son of that clan who forgot one another never, and who saw one another only in times of death, pestilence, and terror, came in.†   (source)
  • It almost looked as though the pestilence had been directed against the really valuable people in the village of Puerto.†   (source)
  • The Enemy's human partisans have all been plainly told by Him that suffering is an essential part of what He calls Redemption; so that a faith which is destroyed by a war or a pestilence cannot really have been worth the trouble of destroying.†   (source)
  • A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away.†   (source)
  • For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.†   (source)
  • When the pestilence visited his dear village of Puerto and carried off a large number of peasants, he secretly drew up a diagram of the characteristics of fifteen victims and fifteen survivors, the statistics of their value sub specie aeternitatis.†   (source)
  • Luke, the fourth to be attacked by the pestilence, was desperately ill with typhoid: Eugene was intrusted almost completely to a young slovenly negress.†   (source)
  • But he knew that her sorrow at that moment was not for him or for herself, or even for the boy whom idiot chance had thrust in the way of pestilence, but that, with a sudden inner flaming of her clairvoyant Scotch soul, she had looked cleanly, without pretense for the first time, upon the inexorable tides of Necessity, and that she was sorry for all who had lived, were living, or would live, fanning with their prayers the useless altar flames, suppliant with their hopes to an unwitting…†   (source)
  • And like them you have been beholding mankind and all creation with new eyes, since the gates of this city closed on you and on the pestilence.†   (source)
  • The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.†   (source)
  • There was no question of not taking precautions or failing to comply with the orders wisely promulgated for the public weal in the disorders of a pestilence.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the plague medal had the disadvantage of having far less moral effect than that attaching to a military award, since in time of pestilence a decoration of this sort is too easily acquired.†   (source)
  • He realized how absurd it was, but he simply couldn't believe that a pestilence on the great scale could befall a town where people like Grand were to be found, obscure functionaries cultivating harmless eccentricities.†   (source)
  • It was as if the pestilence, hounded away by cold, the street-lamps, and the crowd, had fled from the depths of the town and taken shelter in this warm room and was launching its last offensive at Tarrou's inert body.†   (source)
  • This human form, his friend's, lacerated by the spear-thrusts of the plague, consumed by searing, superhuman fires, buffeted by all the raging winds of heaven, was foundering under his eyes in the dark flood of the pestilence, and he could do nothing to avert the wreck.†   (source)
  • Nor should one even think of acting like those Persians who in time of plague threw their infected garments on the Christian sanitary workers and loudly called on Heaven to give the plague to these infidels who were trying to avert a pestilence sent by God.†   (source)
  • …massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved to compile this chronicle, so that he should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.†   (source)
  • In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences.†   (source)
  • All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.†   (source)
  • Our townsfolk were not more to blame than others; they forgot to be modest, that was all, and thought that everything still was possible for them; which presupposed that pestilences were impossible.†   (source)
  • The reason was that our newspapers had informed us that two hundred years previously, during the great pestilences of southern Europe, the doctors wore oiled clothing as a safeguard against infection.†   (source)
  • Others made comparisons with the great pestilences of former times, drew parallels (which the forecasters called "constants"), and claimed to deduce conclusions bearing on the present calamity.†   (source)
  • Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.†   (source)
  • It could be only the record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite their personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.†   (source)
  • Had there been an invasion? an earthquake? a pestilence?†   (source)
  • It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.†   (source)
  • No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.†   (source)
  • Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.†   (source)
  • They that come after us will perish as by a pestilence!†   (source)
  • None so self-devoted as Hester when pestilence stalked through the town.†   (source)
  • One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence.†   (source)
  • Nothing is inside them, they were sealed up before the creation of pestilence or treasure; if mankind grew curious and excavated, nothing, nothing would be added to the sum of good or evil.†   (source)
  • Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it.†   (source)
  • Why, you who live on the land know that you house your poor people in the slums of cities and loose famine and pestilence upon them, and that there still remain more poor people, dying for want of a crust of bread and a bit of meat (which is life destroyed), than you know what to do with.†   (source)
  • And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.†   (source)
  • For a bag of pepper they would cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls, of which they were so careful otherwise: the bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes—the unknown seas, the loathsome and strange diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence, and despair.†   (source)
  • The houses in view were silent, as if a pestilence had swept them clean of every breath of life; but many invisible eyes were turned, from within, upon the two men with the creek between them, a stranded white boat, and the body of the third man half sunk in the mud.†   (source)
  • Over such battles the people run about the streets yelling with delight, and egg their Governments on to spend hundreds of millions of money in the slaughter, whilst the strongest Ministers dare not spend an extra penny in the pound against the poverty and pestilence through which they themselves daily walk.†   (source)
  • In the old chronicles you read of earthquakes and pestilences, and are told that these showed the power and majesty of God and the littleness of Man.†   (source)
  • I would not have you go back to exchange one word with any old companion, or take one look at any old haunt, or breathe the very air which is pestilence and death to you.†   (source)
  • From his inscrutable tyranny did I at length flee, panic-stricken, as from a pestilence; and to the very ends of the earth I fled in vain.†   (source)
  • Plague pestilence and famine, battle murder and sudden death upon him," says the old man, making a curse out of one of his few remembrances of a prayer and squeezing up his velvet cap between his angry hands, "I have half a million of his signatures, I think!†   (source)
  • The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence.†   (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)
  • Thus we, our hellish boluses compounding, Among these vales and hills surrounding, Worse than the pestilence, have passed.†   (source)
  • Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, ran risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.†   (source)
  • That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence; which, quickening with the quickening spring, crept into the Orphan Asylum, breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into an hospital.†   (source)
  • Think not we long remained blind to the idiotical folly of our founders, who forswore every delight of life for the pleasure of dying martyrs by hunger, by thirst, and by pestilence, and by the swords of savages, while they vainly strove to defend a barren desert, valuable only in the eyes of superstition.†   (source)
  • As his neighbors increased in numbers his power became less and less, and now, of the many and powerful tribes who once covered these United States, only a few are to be seen—a few whom a sweeping pestilence has left.†   (source)
  • I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill use it; but gradually--very gradually--I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.†   (source)
  • "Ah! good heavens!" said an old woman among the spectators, "and that besides our having had a considerable pestilence last year, and that they say that the English are going to disembark in a company at Harfleur."†   (source)
  • In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease— a terrible passing inclination to die of it.†   (source)
  • It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.†   (source)
  • She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence—the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment—whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.†   (source)
  • And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms.†   (source)
  • The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all—it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.†   (source)
  • Lay upon the sinner his sin, Lay upon the transgressor his transgression, Punish him a little when he breaks loose, Do not drive him too hard or he perishes; Would that a lion had ravaged mankind Rather than the flood, Would that a wolf had ravaged mankind Rather than the flood, Would that famine had wasted the world Rather than the flood, Would that pestilence had wasted mankind Rather than the flood.†   (source)
  • 'Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth with his feet.'†   (source)
  • "The pestilence will come upon ye, and ye shall die o' your sins, unless ye be cleansed!†   (source)
  • Sir Walter Ralegh brought from the new world that potato and that weed, the one a killer of pestilence by absorption, the other a poisoner of the ear, eye, heart, memory, will understanding, all.†   (source)
  • THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIN: Kidney of Bloom, pray for us Flower of the Bath, pray for us Mentor of Menton, pray for us Canvasser for the Freeman, pray for us Charitable Mason, pray for us Wandering Soap, pray for us Sweets of Sin, pray for us Music without Words, pray for us Reprover of the Citizen, pray for us Friend of all Frillies, pray for us Midwife Most Merciful, pray for us Potato Preservative against Plague and Pestilence, pray for us.†   (source)
  • …gaunt, desperate, I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest, I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the…†   (source)
  • The most infectious pestilence upon thee!†   (source)
  • 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.†   (source)
  • And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms.†   (source)
  • On our side like the token'd pestilence, Where death is sure.†   (source)
  • And old and angry niggards of dispence,* *expense God send them soon a very pestilence!†   (source)
  • A wilde fire and corrupt pestilence So fall upon your bodies yet to-night!†   (source)
  • I do not think it was a greater sorrow to see the whole people in Egina sick, when the air was so full of pestilence that the animals, even to the little worm, all fell dead (and afterwards the ancient people, according as the poets hold for sure, were restored by seed of ants), than it was to see the spirits languishing in different heaps through that dark valley.†   (source)
  • …There are that dare; and I myself have ventur'd To speak my mind of him: and indeed this day, Sir, I may tell it you, I think I have Incens'd the lords o' the council, that he is, For so I know he is, they know he is, A most arch heretic, a pestilence That does infect the land; with which they moved Have broken with the King, who hath so far Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace And princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded…†   (source)
  • Going to find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me, Here in this city visiting the sick, And finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth; So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.†   (source)
  • Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence; That instant was I turn'd into a hart; And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E'er since pursue me.†   (source)
  • A pestilence on him for a mad rogue!†   (source)
  • Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreath your arms like a malcontent; to relish a love-song, like a robin redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had lost his A B C; to weep, like a young wench that had buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes diet; to watch, like one that fears robbing; to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas.†   (source)
  • When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now: for whiles this honest fool Plies Desdemona to repair his fortune, And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor, I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,— That she repeals him for her body's lust; And by how much she strives to do him good, She shall undo her credit with the Moor.†   (source)
  • *fine silk And yet *he was but easy of dispense*: *he spent very little* He kept *that he won in the pestilence*.†   (source)
  • But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them through chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin.†   (source)
  • VOLP: Oh, Rid me of this my torture, quickly, there; My madam, with the everlasting voice: The bells, in time of pestilence, ne'er made Like noise, or were in that perpetual motion!†   (source)
  • It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.†   (source)
  • O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad.†   (source)
  • 9:15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.†   (source)
  • "As soon as the first fury of this terrible pestilence was over, a sale was made of the Dey's slaves; I was purchased by a merchant, and carried to Tunis; this man sold me to another merchant, who sold me again to another at Tripoli; from Tripoli I was sold to Alexandria, from Alexandria to Smyrna, and from Smyrna to Constantinople.†   (source)
  • On th' other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.†   (source)
  • 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.†   (source)
  • 91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 91:6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.†   (source)
  • Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed; wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased; all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colick-pangs, Demoniack phrenzy, moaping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.†   (source)
  • 78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.†   (source)
  • *enemy in the household* For in this world is no worse pestilence Than homely foe, all day in thy presence.†   (source)
  • He hath a thousand slain this pestilence; And, master, ere you come in his presence, Me thinketh that it were full necessary For to beware of such an adversary; Be ready for to meet him evermore.†   (source)
  • Mine is the ruin of the highe halls, The falling of the towers and the walls Upon the miner or the carpenter: I slew Samson in shaking the pillar: Mine also be the maladies cold, The darke treasons, and the castes* old: *plots My looking is the father of pestilence.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)