All 26 Uses
pestilence
in
The Plague
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- Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.†
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- In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences.†
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- A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away.†
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- A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away.†
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- Our townsfolk were not more to blame than others; they forgot to be modest, that was all, and thought that everything still was possible for them; which presupposed that pestilences were impossible.†
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- They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.†
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- He realized how absurd it was, but he simply couldn't believe that a pestilence on the great scale could befall a town where people like Grand were to be found, obscure functionaries cultivating harmless eccentricities.†
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- This was one of the tricks the pestilence had of diverting attention and confounding issues.†
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- See him there, that angel of the pestilence, comely as Lucifer, shining like Evil's very self!†
Part 2
- And like them you have been beholding mankind and all creation with new eyes, since the gates of this city closed on you and on the pestilence.†
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- This same pestilence which is slaying you works for your good and points your path.†
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- At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric.†
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- Moreover, the plague medal had the disadvantage of having far less moral effect than that attaching to a military award, since in time of pestilence a decoration of this sort is too easily acquired.†
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- The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.†
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- Others made comparisons with the great pestilences of former times, drew parallels (which the forecasters called "constants"), and claimed to deduce conclusions bearing on the present calamity.†
Part 4
- Nor should one even think of acting like those Persians who in time of plague threw their infected garments on the Christian sanitary workers and loudly called on Heaven to give the plague to these infidels who were trying to avert a pestilence sent by God.†
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- There was no question of not taking precautions or failing to comply with the orders wisely promulgated for the public weal in the disorders of a pestilence.†
Part 4
- The reason was that our newspapers had informed us that two hundred years previously, during the great pestilences of southern Europe, the doctors wore oiled clothing as a safeguard against infection.†
Part 4
- And, in fact, the balefires of the pestilence were blazing ever more merrily in the crematorium.†
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- All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.†
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- All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.†
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- That's why I say there are pestilences and there are victims; no more than that.†
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- It was as if the pestilence, hounded away by cold, the street-lamps, and the crowd, had fled from the depths of the town and taken shelter in this warm room and was launching its last offensive at Tarrou's inert body.†
Part 5
- This human form, his friend's, lacerated by the spear-thrusts of the plague, consumed by searing, superhuman fires, buffeted by all the raging winds of heaven, was foundering under his eyes in the dark flood of the pestilence, and he could do nothing to avert the wreck.†
Part 5
- And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved to compile this chronicle, so that he should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.†
Part 5
- It could be only the record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite their personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.†
Part 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(pestilence) widespread disease (usually severe); or any severely harmful or evil influence that is hard to get rid of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)