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Black Death
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    I'm dressed like a medieval peasant (we're studying the Black Plague), and I have a fierce scowl and a dead rat dangling from one hand.  (source)
    Black Plague = aka Black Death -- a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    The majority of students avoided his sections like the Black Death.  (source)
    Black Death = a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    Written by an anonymous mystic, I'm not sure, fourteenth century maybe, whenever the Black Death was—he was writing in the days of the Black Death.  (source)
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    Now mice, however small or harmless, are rats to me—snarling, needle-fanged wharf inhabitants whose fleas carry the black death and whose bite is rabid.  (source)
    black death = a plague thought to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population in the mid-14th century
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    I think of smallpox as something out of the Middle Ages, like the Black Plague.  (source)
    Black Plague = aka Black Death -- a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    And even if it's got smallpox, black death, and ten thousand hangnails, there ain't no doctor knows how to cure it.  (source)
    black death = a plague thought to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population in the mid-14th century
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    ...cholera, dropsy or the Black Plague,  (source)
    Black Plague = a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    I'm talking about the Black Death.  (source)
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    Black Plague.  (source)
    Black Plague = aka Black Death -- a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    ...the carnival of masked doctors at the Black Death;  (source)
    Black Death = a plague thought to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population in the mid-14th century
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    On the television screen the maps looked as though they were plotting a black plague methodically working its way east.  (source)
    black plague = aka Black Death -- a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?  (source)
    Black Death = a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    "Did you know that during Shakespeare's time almost a third of the people who lived in London died one year from something called the Black Plague?" she asked the class.  (source)
    Black Plague = aka Black Death -- a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350
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    Like someone could catch the 'black death of ugliness.  (source)
    black death = bleak death
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    'Do it,' said the stranger standing nearest to Harry, a big, rangy man with matted grey hair and whiskers, whose black Death Eater's robes looked uncomfortably tight.  (source)
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    I don't buy the gold eyeshadow, but I do pick up a bottle of Black Death nail polish.  (source)
    Black Death = a product name
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    It looked like a glossy black death trap.  (source)
    black death = bleak death
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    Some call him the Killer, some call him Black Death—he has a whole string of names like that.  (source)
    Black Death = bringer of death
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    I had this nightmarish vision of what was happening, and what I saw was our huge oceans covered from one country to the next with an oil slick, a black death coating everything.  (source)
    black death = bleak death
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    People always speak of a black death or a red death, he thought; yours, Gail Wynand, will be a gray death.  (source)
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    Curses on your head, and black death on your heart, you imp!  (source)
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    "I guess I'm the Black Death," he said slowly.  (source)
    Black Death = bringer of despair or death
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    Only in the very last moment, as though in response to some sign we could not see, to some whisper we could not hear, he frowned heavily, and that frown gave to his black death-mask an inconceivably somber, brooding, and menacing expression.  (source)
    black death = bleak death
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    Retiring now to bleed among his men and shun black death, Eurypylos cried sharply: "Friends, lords and nobles of the Argives, halt!"  (source)
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    But Antinous is the worst of all—he's black death itself.  (source)
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    Now one was left, trying still to escape black death.  (source)
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