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Black Death
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    You sound like you're down with the Black Death.  (source)
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    And FYI, the Black Death was not my fault.  (source)
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    His men spread fear abroad like the Black Death, they push it under doors and through mailboxes, they paint it on walls and stable doors until it infects everything around it of its own accord, silent and stinking like a plague.  (source)
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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)
    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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    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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    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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    At the time of the Black Death, they gathered again, sometimes in very great numbers, passing from town to town, drawing the souls of the troubled to them.  (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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    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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    I'm talking about 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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    ...cholera, dropsy or the Black Plague,  (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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    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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    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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    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)
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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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    People always speak of a black death or a red death, he thought; yours, Gail Wynand, will be a gray death.  (source)
    black death = bleak death
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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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    Curses on your head, and black death on your heart, you imp!  (source)
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    That black soul, too, shall die a black death with my poisons.  (source)
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    Black death attends behind the Grecian wall, And great Idomeneus shall boast thy fall!  (source)
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    But they gave him no heed, for the fates of black death led them on.  (source)
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