Sample sentences for PESTILENCE

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widespread disease (usually severe); or any severely harmful or evil influence that is hard to get rid of

Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

pestilence = widespread disease

There's no pestilence in you, Gray.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
The Shadow My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in the night.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
Had there been an invasion? an earthquake? a pestilence?
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
They that come after us will perish as by a pestilence!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's Daughter
It almost looked as though the pestilence had been directed against the really valuable people in the village of Puerto.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue!
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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.
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease— a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
He is fire and death and pestilence.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
The Bible -- Psalms
She shook her head and sighed a sigh the magnitude of one sighed for murder and pestilence.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
And yet they survived, displaying the same obstinacy and fortitude that kept their ancestors in Palancar Valley despite famine, war, and pestilence.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

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