Both Uses of
pestilence
in
Atlas Shrugged
- There was a time when human beings crouched in caves, at the mercy of any pestilence and any storm.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- 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.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(pestilence) widespread disease (usually severe); or any severely harmful or evil influence that is hard to get rid of