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widespread disease (usually severe); or any severely harmful or evil influence that is hard to get rid of
- 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.Chapter 14 (28% in)
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