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Examples of pestilence


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Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence.
The enormity and constant observance of death during a time of pestilence indicates some explanation of late the medieval hedonism that occurs.
She is propitiated especially at times of pestilence, when chickenpox and measles strike.
Pollution and pestilence have broken out, contagion made more terrible by their sheer numbers overwhelms them.
He asserted that famine, war and pestilence were positive ways of checking the growth in population, sweeping away excess peoples, and then maintaining a rough equilibrium between people and necessities.
Had the countryside been left largely untouched by the pestilence, the rapid repopulation of affected cities would have been relatively unproblematic, and the long-term consequences of the disease accordingly slight.
Although the island is "a great cemetery" lying "under the hot sun of the tropics", it is not the cesspool of pestilence and poison that it should be.
The alternative is possible war, famine and pestilence.
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Delays are one of the pestilences from which men suffer.
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Millions of people are condemned to an early death and pestilences and famines rage throughout the country.
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Again, the pestilences which devastate the land periodically can only be held in check by the vigilance, the energy and the resource of the officials concerned.
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There will be stirrings of nations and evil reports, pestilences, famines, and earth quakes in various places.
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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 allit is very tiresome.
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I wanted to keep out pestilence, disease and that sort of thing.
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There is the source of the recurring pestilence.
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To put it on the lowest ground, it will not pay us; for famine and pestilence go hand in hand.
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They have flood, pestilence, fire, and earthquake, and governments are another calamity.
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We know only too well of the suffering and the deaths caused by drought, pestilence, disease and other natural disasters.
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Let us suppose that a great natural disaster were visited on this country, flood, fire, pestilence or disease, and there were 1,600,000 people involved.
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All those predictions are subject to drastic qualifications from such influences as famine, war, pestilence and disease.
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They will die in their millions, by disease, pestilence and hunger.
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There would be no timber for this country, no coal, no trade, no revival, and in its place there would be pestilence and chaos.
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We see that best when famine is followed by pestilence which can involve a continent.
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I am the first to recognise the distress caused by the pestilence of aircraft noise.
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She said that she had a comprehensive insurance policy but the insurance company said that it was for storm and pestilence but not for flood.
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Let us make war on poverty, hunger, ignorance, disease and pestilence rather than making war on our own people.
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We endured plagues and suffered all manner of pestilence.
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They starved because the crops failed, or because a murrain fell on the cattle and a pestilence on the people.
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If they do not do that, it means despair, death and pestilence; everything bad in human life.
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If a pestilence attacks the hop field and the supply goes down, there will still be a tight monopoly for the 1932 man.
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There are parents of young children dreading the time when their children grow up to be teenagers, all because of this dreaded drug pestilence.
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After all, famine and pestilence know no frontiers.
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Not unnaturally, the people who are most affected are those who live near airports and regard noise as a pestilence.
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We have huge areas from which the rich, who can afford to do so, flee—for residential purposes—as from a pestilence.
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Pestilence and sudden death are calamities, but they are not breaches of the peace.
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The first, overriding priority must be to eradicate the pestilence as soon as possible.
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The present distress is unlike many distresses in the past that were the result of pestilence or famine.
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Whether derived from the sea, or not, it is based historically on natural disaster; for instance, flood, famine and pestilence.
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By one means or another we have been able to decrease the mortality rate which had been growing year by year through pestilence and droughts.
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Everyone knows that when we are dealing with pestilence you want supreme direction.
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The day has gone by when we had famine, pestilence and epidemics.
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You have brought that happy state of things to pass—peace, prosperity, law and order, and protection from war, pestilence and famine.
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She is subject to famine and pestilence with all its consequences.
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Because if not we shall have famine and pestilence and, as we well know, famine and pestilence know no frontiers.
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One puts one's money on with an insurance company hoping that one will not lose—hoping that one will not get pestilence, flood or theft.
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Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
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We face the gravest economic difficulties which have come upon us even though we have not suffered from war, pestilence or famine.
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There has been no pestilence, no earthquake.
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As if all that were not enough, we now have this terrifying pestilence of foot and mouth rampaging across the land, spreading, out of control, like wildfire across the countryside.
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The ravages of war, pestilence and famine had been very considerably checked, and the number of children born very much exceeded the number requisite to maintain a stationary population.
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British people respond easily, quite justifiably and rightly, to the dilemma faced by children all over the world who suffer because of famine, pestilence, disease and war.
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What is it—people or pestilence?
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We must do our best to teach them that spending is the enemy and that a deadly pestilence is often less destructive of national health than wasteful expenditure.
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I accept that noise is a pestilence.
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If there should be a major outbreak of pestilence as a result of sewage contaminating our people's homes, whom shall we blame and to whom shall we go for redress?
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She spreads disease and pestilence, any that look at her become ill, and she suckles serpents.
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Catastrophes and epidemics such as pestilence intensified the process of destabilization.
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In gratitude for having survived such a terrible pestilence the citizens voted to renew the veneration of their saint every year.
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In such conditions, poetry presents itself as a real scourge, like some dangerous pestilence, almost like a social peril.
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In 1427, it suffered an outbreak of pestilence.
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Eventually, the pestilence subsided, the land was calmed, and the five cereal crops ripened.
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Under him many portents happened and a great pestilence occurred.
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In 869, the people were suffering from plague and pestilence which was attributed to the rampaging deity.
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Volkmar, a "modern rationalist preterist", points to pestilence striking in year 66.
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In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death.
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Pestilence is less virulent during the winter months, and spreads less rapidly.
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In the late 16th-century the population was decimated by a pestilence, but gradually recovered, increasing to 13,000 in 1798.
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Other variations include innocence (the unexpected) and pestilence.
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Meanwhile, the town is planning to have a celebration from all the pestilence that have happened.
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Nicolai wrote the words in response to a pestilence in 1597.
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An estimated 250,000 people (about one in eight of the population) died from the ensuing pestilence and disease.
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Through hunger, pestilence and wars, the population figure was always very low.
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He breaks out of the police dragnet, and hides at a farm which recently had a pestilence infection.
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On the other hand, mass cremations were often performed out of fear of contagious diseases, such as after a battle, pestilence, or famine.
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Pestilence could transform his appearance into that of other people, both alive and dead.
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The city of contrasts was dubbed the city of fever and fortune, a port of pestilence and prosperity.
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Supposed prophecies ranged from fine days predicting good harvests, to clouds and mists signifying pestilence and war in the coming months.
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The instability at court came right as natural calamity, pestilence, rebellion, and foreign invasion came to a peak.
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Pestilence mixed jazz fusion elements into their death metal style, and used guitar synths throughout the album.
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However, the monastery had almost been abandoned in 1401 as a result of pestilence and poverty.
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While his horse continued galloping, he was bending his bow in order to spread pestilence abroad.
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Poma also notes that the new sites were sometimes set in damp lands that cause pestilence (disease).
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In more mythical stories, it was also said that the flies that brought pestilence died immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird.
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Another of the selling points was the guarantee of assistance for famine or pestilence relief.
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As these men deal with pestilence, violence and grossly substandard living conditions, the prison guards and administration put on a talent show.
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Farm living has always been susceptible to unpredictable environmental conditions, and in times of drought, flood or pestilence, survival may become extremely problematic.
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Procurement, pestilence and contagious diseases are created through trade; decreasing the number of residents that reside in that particular town or city.
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Pestilence is surrounded by a swarm of wasps and mosquitoes, each with their own poisonous stings, and is armed with a trident and a net.
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To him shall come fire, water and pestilence.
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Branches were started in different parts of the country for various humanitarian tasks, including relief work at the time of flood, famine, earthquake and pestilence.
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The pogrom wave hit many towns even before the pestilence reached them.
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Plague, famine, pestilence and natural calamities will appear.
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If it rose clear, it would portend good fortune; if it was misty or faint then it foretold (or emanated) pestilence.
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Their destination is a so-called plague star, known to inflict disease and pestilence on every third generation of a small, remote world.
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Chapter 7 examines checks on population such as pestilence and famine.
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In severe cases of religious pestilence, there was a need for a holy war.
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In the latter half of the 17th century, severe droughts and pestilence caused a major economic crisis for the city, which depended on agriculture.
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Historically, famines have occurred from agricultural problems such as drought, crop failure, or pestilence.
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Nothing can be seen, and the air will be laden with pestilence which will claim mainly, but not only, the enemies of religion.
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In some contexts the same can be expressed by a prepositional phrase, as in "the twin curses of famine and pestilence" (meaning the twin curses that are famine and pestilence).
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