| 单词 | pestiferous |
| 例句 | While the rest of the family tossed and dozed, I secretly made my way to the San Marcos River bank and enjoyed a daily interlude of no school, no pestiferous brothers, and no Mother. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z This time he contends with a computer-generated whirlpool and a pestiferous piscine cloud whose effects are more gruesome than genuinely scary. | 'Piranha 3D': Richard Dreyfuss Is Back With Biting Fish 2010-08-22T18:51:00Z William of Newburgh, a medieval English historian, recorded one account of a town devastated by such a monster, who was accused of filling “every house with disease and death by its pestiferous breath.” Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Some experts believe other bugs and animals — including those considered pestiferous, like rats — are thriving from secondary impacts of all that H20, like increased vegetation. The late-summer itch: Ankle-biting mosquitoes are in extra full force in L.A. Why? 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z When seedlings popped, I put collars around them to protect against pestiferous birds. Op-Ed: The pandemic made me a farmer again 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The program currently envisions three types of pestiferous insects as allies: aphids, leafhoppers and whiteflies. The Pentagon is studying an insect army to defend crops. Critics fear a bioweapon. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The program envisions three types of pestiferous insects as allies: aphids, leafhoppers and whiteflies. Insect army could defend crops, but critics raise bioweapon fears 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.” Martin Luther and the Long March to Freedom of Conscience 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Even before we brutally crammed them into pestiferous cages and messed with their DNA, chickens were just awesomely good at producing eggs and healthy meat. The chicken is the most underrated member of the animal kingdom 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z The latter, that the doctrine was pestiferous and blasphemous, and that its author, if obstinate, should be arrested. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z I know, Mr. Speaker, that while I utter these things, a thousand tongues and a thousand pens are preparing without doors to overwhelm me, if possible, by their pestiferous gall. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z A man would be a barbarian, nay, a very brute, to deprive the darling girl of the chances of Almacks, the delights of the pestiferous ball-room, or the galaxy of court or opera! Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The one seems the kindly sun, cherishing the tender herbage of the field; the other, the blasting mildew, breathing its pestiferous venom over every beautiful plant and flower. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Guides, beggars and cabmen not so pestiferous as of yore, but still bad enough to deserve electrocution, provided some more lingering form of death could not be substituted. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z The pestiferous madness of the Beghards, he said, was blazing forth afresh, and efforts were requisite for its suppression. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Sometimes a huge bat drives right against them, poisoning the air with pestiferous odour. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Well, it's a pipe case—a filthy pipe case, which smells pestiferous. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z What shall we do with this pestiferous Mr. Shei?” “What would you suggest?” cautiously inquired The Phantom, lifting the cup to his lips. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z We have talked and divided and sat till we're ill, At the mercy of every pestiferous bore. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:15.237Z Then the whole brigade wants to let drive at him and squander ammunition at the rate of five dollars a second on that one pestiferous vagabond. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z There was scarcely a district in Protestant Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands where there were not groups of such separatists; some mere harmless enthusiasts, others circulated pestiferous and immoral doctrines. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Winter did not rid us of these pestiferous little rodents, which lived, and prospered, in the snow. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z To give him but his due, he was a most pestiferous and dangerous fellow among a crew. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z It isn't your fault if a band of pestiferous ladrones pounce upon you in the morning and whisk you out in your pajamas. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Now, it happened that in the year of our dear Lord and Redeemer 1215, the same pestiferous spirit spread itself into parts of Italy, in the following manner. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z I seriously doubt if one has ever yet lived many days at a time devoid of the companionship of these pestiferous little creatures. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z We have that pestiferous mullah, Hadji Haroun, safe by the heels, and Mushîm Khan has cut out of all further part in the jihad. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Bumila is S. Andamanese for "fly," and I don't think I ever saw so many of those pestiferous insects together at one time. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Often to all these causes of infection are added myriads of grasshoppers, which cover the ground, where they die, aggravating the mass of pestiferous vapour which fills the atmosphere. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z Above the place where they now sat, among the tumbled rocks of a narrow valley, was the headquarters of a most pestiferous company of robbers. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Hence it is that diseases of the pestiferous type are less frequent among civilised nations, who talk the most. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Under this pestiferous p. 65atmosphere and bright, blazing sun, it is impossible to do anything but sleep; but that is not easy in one’s small cabin, floating on this wide waste of sewage. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Sheffield raised a regiment to march against the Sepoys; why not raise a company to put down its own pestiferous blacks? A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z This pestiferous doctrine of the Nazarenes has found its way even into the temple of Vesta. Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z Before it could be erected, it was needful to construct a platform of solid earth and brickwork, which should rise above the pestiferous marsh, and serve as a foundation for the building. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The organ of smell sentinels the citadel of health against pestiferous odors, and gives the exquisite enjoyment of perfumes. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Dragons have died cheerfully rather than take a mean advantage and slay pestiferous and belligerent runts by spitting out a little fire. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Then I say they are an infernal set of incarnate pestiferous heathens! Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z We landed at Scanderoon, a wretched and deserted village, surrounded with pestiferous marshes on all sides. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z If the Encyclopaedia Britannica shall in any degree counteract the tendency of that pestiferous work, even these two volumes will not be wholly unworthy of your Majesty’s attention.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The Wyoming had no better success in pursuit of the Alabama than the Vanderbilt, and never once sighted the pestiferous Confederate. Cruise and Captures of the Alabama 2011-01-30T03:00:18.733Z In like manner, the pacificists in Philadelphia were called "pestiferous insects" a rather unpleasant sounding term and hardly descriptive. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z But it would be worse still were Parliament to allow Paris to be decimated by cholera because the rag pickers claimed a vested right in pestiferous rags. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z It was a large and flourishing city a hundred years before that pestiferous little craft, called the Mayflower, brought over the cockatrice’s egg that hatched out the Puritan. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z According to the monkish legend, this pestiferous beast was of vast size, and by its deadly breath had destroyed two districts. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists Don’t be too quick to dismiss the common bedbug as merely a pestiferous six-legged blood-sucker. They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists 2010-08-30T21:40:00Z In 1765 he was appointed king's attorney and performed the duties of that office until the pestiferous atmosphere of monarchical oppression drew him from under the dark mantle of a corrupt and impolitic ministry. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution The language of malediction rushed from him, hot and pestiferous, as if it had come from the bottomless pit, reeking with sulphur and brimstone. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 Much of the time they patiently worked knee deep or waist deep in water, covered with swarms of mosquitoes or other pestiferous insects. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers "God bless my soul!" exclaimed the Major, "does this pestiferous ruin belong to me, Zeb?" Our Admirable Betty A Romance The pestiferous exhalations of the filthy streets, and not less filthy shanties, inhabited by the lowest and most disreputable characters, are disgusting beyond any description. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Thus almost all the books brought by her husband for her to read made her tired and sleepy, and it surprised her that he praised these, and called those that she liked pestiferous. Maximina He belonged to that large and pestiferous tribe of reformers, who go through the world without fixed principles. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction A little air gets in through the small opening, but the pestiferous atmosphere caused by scores of perspiring human beings tightly huddled together is beyond measure unbearable. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 There is an end of his pestiferous logic. The Religious Life of London He adds, that this matter exhaled a pestiferous odour during the day, but disappeared at the approach of night. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series If he were remarkable for nothing else, he would be remarkable for the fortitude with which he exposes himself to the pestiferous climate of the Parisian temples of the drama. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. As the atmosphere of the town had become perfectly pestiferous, from the decomposed bodies, Quauhtemoctzin requested Cortes to allow the whole of the inhabitants, with the remaining part of his troops, to leave the city. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. The mildewed fellow who is dealing the cards is pestiferous with disease. Seeds of Pine The Saxon has again cast his pestiferous blight upon one of Ireland's chosen potatoes; having withered the patriot Murphy into an Insolvent Commissioner! Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Into that hole they were locked, and in it they remained until the light of day showed that the pestiferous atmosphere had been fatal to all of them except twenty-three. Rulers of India: Lord Clive But Ichabod, having in mind pestiferous small boys, steadfastly refused any such exhibition of himself and his bride. When the Cock Crows And ran him outa town too, when he got too pestiferous. The Draw Jake, and his dog Mike, I presumed, were already in their accustomed places, Jake smoking his pipe and Mike biting at mosquitoes and other pestiferous insects which lodged and boarded about his warm, hairy person. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia But the climate of New-England is no longer pestiferous; and the climate of Africa will grow sweet and salubrious as her forests disappear, and the purifying influences of Christianity penetrate into the interior. Thoughts on African Colonization But I want it distinctly understood by every one present," he added, as he faced around to the others, "that I wouldn't have those pestiferous Puddingham cuff-buttons as a gift! The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson They labor frequently in marshy grounds, where they inhale pestiferous miasmata, which destroy their health, often irrevocably. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times There you are, 'a fine day's work,' and the pestiferous Mr. Garboy taken down a peg. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story I thought this seemed reasonable, on the same principle that parents can get used to their own children easier than they can to other people’s pestiferous brats. Confessions of a Neurasthenic The pestiferous tree must be cut down and eradicated; it must be, root and branch of it, cast into the consuming fire, and its ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven. Thoughts on African Colonization Attacked with these the fainting monster, which many took for a dragon, responded with loud hisses and emitted a gas of unfamiliar but most pestiferous odour. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons "If we could only keep that pestiferous gang out of our manifestations," said Jean now to Monsieur de Beauchamp,—"they disgrace us always!" Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life For three months the outcasts of humanity were pent in their pestiferous prison day and night to live or die as they chose. Dreamers of the Ghetto How long shall we work so as to make bad men worse, hard hearts harder, the depraved more iniquitous, the pestiferous more destructive to the safety and quietness of society? The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences Why, Sir, slavery is the very Upas tree of the moral world, beneath whose pestiferous shade all intellect languishes, and all virtue dies. Thoughts on African Colonization The constant contemplation of those nests for the sanctuary of pestiferous submarines, effectively guarded against attack by either land or water, has stirred up the determination of the Allies to seek their destruction from above. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons It was easy to understand how unhealthy must be the task of cultivating a rice-field, and what swampy and pestiferous odours must arise from the brilliant vegetation. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Comes o'er Ocean by conductor; Straw, pestiferous, pupæ, brings. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 It is doubtful, however, whether the grape can be grown with commercial success where insects and fungi prevail and are so pestiferous as to require annually more than two or three applications of spraying mixtures. Manual of American Grape-Growing Nor does sheep farming seem to have been especially profitable at this time, as More himself attributes the high price of wool in part to a "pestiferous morrein." The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction There are some plants which spring from and flourish in mud and slime; they are but a flabby, pestiferous growth, as you may suppose. The First Violin A Novel "O, beneficent Fairy Violetta," exclaimed the prince, "what shall I do with this pestiferous caitiff, who minds neither hanging nor drowning?" Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 One day when Little Teacher had given him a verbose definition of the word “pestiferous,” David looked at her comprehendingly. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West The many pestiferous species vary greatly in importance, depending on locality, weather and the variety. Manual of American Grape-Growing What can be more "pestiferous," or more prone to sedition? The Life of Cicero Volume II. Her breath pestiferous felt the cities round, Houses and 'habitants where'er she flew. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II The sufferings of the children in the gloomy, pestiferous cabins used for ‘living’ purposes especially excited the country’s pity. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement The laughter was just dying away when Harvey—who recognised himself as the pestiferous germ alluded to—strode into the room, followed by the white-faced Rachel. What's-His-Name We ourselves slept in most pestiferous places, where the ravages of the disease were marked in the sallow countenances of the inhabitants, without experiencing the least inconvenience. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. We have yet other illustrations of the pestiferous influence of Romanism on the temporal happiness of its subjects. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge At the time of the Missouri question, the pestiferous effects of slavery had become too obvious to escape the observation of the most superficial statesman. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Their life is known to be utterly worthless, and they are morally pestiferous in their influence upon the whole community. India, Its Life and Thought It is due to their country and to posterity, to strive to remove an evil, which, like the Upas, extends its pestiferous influence in every direction. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 That dense creamy vapour, formed by the pestiferous exhalations of the lowlands, is the death shroud of the plain outstretched beneath it. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Here, come away, my lads; this place is pestiferous enough to lay every one down with fever.” Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop But a pestiferous little dog kept barking at her furiously and biting at the hem of her dress. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man The dense population was due to the elaborate irrigation of the Babylonian plain which had originally reclaimed it from a pestiferous and uninhabitable swamp and had made it the most fertile country in the world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" We think of nothing but extending our settlements still further on these pestiferous sea coasts, even to the sunken lagunes of East Florida, and the barren sands of Mobile and Pensacola. Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 The exhalations from these marshes and waters render the climate so pestiferous, that the littorale is almost uninhabited. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. The forest of M’Bonga has great tracts of this boggy, pestiferous land, dreadful sloughs of despond caverned with foliage, and by some curse the rubber vines entrench themselves with these. The Pools of Silence Many of our men falling sick here, and our Ransom being now fully disbursed by the authorities of Guayaquil, we made haste to get away from the place, which was fast becoming pestiferous. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Once only I have slept within its problematical range, and that was off that pestiferous bit of coast near Epidaurus, and I fancy at a season when the marshes had not their steam up. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 As she spake thus, the enchantress breathed on me with her pestiferous breath, and, falling to the ground, I crawled like a toad before her. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers Our native American birds, at least some of them, suffer a good deal at the hands, so to speak, of the pestiferous English sparrows, which were introduced into this country by some egregious blunder. Our Bird Comrades The westward part of the forest of M’Bonga projects a spur of the pestiferous rubber-bearing land into the isthmus of healthy woods. The Pools of Silence Fortunately the vultures and ants, and other useful agents, soon reduced the pestiferous masses to harmless skeletons. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Hurt in pride and pocket, the enraged clergy lodged complaints against Hus as a pestiferous heretic, who had to be suppressed; he lost his position as the Synodal preacher in 1408. John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr An inferior spirit, often drugged or doctored for unwary sailors in the pestiferous dens of filthy Calcutta and other sea-ports in India. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. While the regiment, whose fortunes have been more intimately connected with our story, was retiring from the pestiferous swamp, the commanding general received information of the approach of Stonewall Jackson. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer The inquest over, the body is flung into a pestiferous churchyard in the next street, houses overlooking it on every side, and a reeking little tunnel of a court giving access to its iron gate. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete She’ll get outdoor exercise, tonic air, sound sleep, release from all these pestiferous details, like a cloud of flies, that sting women’s nerves to death. The Branding Iron And as soon as it was quiet, its clothes had to be washed or its bath prepared, or Gertrude wanted something, or one of the pestiferous visitors came in. The Goose Man "He is the most useless, pestiferous, conceited little squirt I ever saw," said Dink. The Varmint He reasoned quickly that the freeing of a pestiferous Englishman at Semlin could have no possible effect on Austria's subsequent action. A Son of the Immortals Our security in negotiation is to be this Buonaparte, who is now the sole organ of all that was formerly dangerous and pestiferous in the Revolution.... William Pitt and the Great War In India it is now universally used with the same beneficial effect; and several African explorers have been enabled to prosecute their journeys through pestiferous regions by its frequent use. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America We had a considerable advantage in weapons, but the reds were pestiferous in spite of that, and they kept us busy for fully 36 hours plugging them at every opportunity. The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself He manages it precisely as his father or grandfather always managed theirs, but somehow the pestiferous weeds will spring up, and he has next to no crop. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual No vegetables except moss and toadstool-like productions could exist in that airless and pestiferous region. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting Indeed, attractive as the country is in appearance, few would wish to visit that pestiferous region. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea Running a newspaper out here was, as Ma Wagor had predicted, a "pestiferous" job. Land of the Burnt Thigh In the Bad Lands the thieves became daily more pestiferous. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands It is of so infectious and pestiferous a nature, that it defiles all that is in the man, and all that comes out of the man. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Brotteaux sank down on a bench in the pestiferous darkness and sat there, his head against the wall, speechless and motionless. The Gods are Athirst You bury your seamen upon the pestiferous shores; and, shocking to humanity! make monsters of all you engage in the traffic. Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 "It appears to me," said Ma, "like a post office is as pestiferous a job as a newspaper." Land of the Burnt Thigh Their country contained no saltpans, and they were cut off from the sea by a strip of pestiferous jungle, which, moreover, belonged to the Portuguese or was supposed so to belong. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer “It seems that that pestiferous British frigate the Talisman, lies at anchor in the bay, on the other side of the island.” Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader As he reduced the biscuit to crumbs with a hammer, he recalled that he had been awakened several times by the sound of these pestiferous animals frisking in the box in the corner. The Dude Wrangler He will destroy only the pestiferous microbes which ravage the vital peace of the soul. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year But Ma never admitted anything pestiferous about running the store. Land of the Burnt Thigh "You are a pestiferous son-in-law," said Warren, as Lyman entered the room. Old Ebenezer Those who refused to wear the party collar were branded by the "organs" as a "pestiferous and demoralizing brood," who deserved "extermination." Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 A short time after this, the regiment of her lover was ordered out to India, in which pestiferous country he took a malicious fever and expired. Barbara in Brittany It is indeed lamentable that a few such pestiferous schemers should thus bring a certain degree of reproach upon the entire publishing business. Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Seems to me that would be a pestiferous job. Land of the Burnt Thigh At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy. From Place to Place This was the great pestiferous open sewer that stole into a filthy existence under the name of the Washington Canal. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 A pestiferous sanity keeps demanding of me that I translate incoherent things into words. Erik Dorn The repeated treachery of the corsairs had left in the minds of the Yankee sailors but one thought,—to send the ship to the bottom, and rid the ocean of so pestiferous a craft. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 "They're clean off me, I reckon," said Leary a little pathetically, the reference being presumably to the pestiferous police. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! The shore is rendered pestiferous by rotting seaweed, and the bodies of sharks, with back fin cut out and tail cut off, which are exposed to dry on the beach. Southern Arabia “I will continue my search for him in spite of pestiferous climates, or savages, or any other difficulties which I may have to encounter,” I exclaimed, half speaking to myself. My First Voyage to Southern Seas The air, too, was close and pestiferous, as if all the foul vapours had been forced up from the inward recesses of the hold. Hurricane Hurry We had not altogether escaped, and several of our men who were perfectly healthy when we entered the harbour fell victims to the fever engendered by the pestiferous climate. James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat Eh, Mistress Wilson, but lads be that pestiferous! All's Well Alice's Victory I believe it’s getting hotter instead of cooler; although, by all the laws that are supposed to govern this pestiferous climate, we ought to be close upon the coolest hour of the twenty-four! A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story He had a vague impression of calling the landlady and of seeing the body carried from the pestiferous room. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life That evening notice was brought us that Captain Williams was dead, and his poor young midshipman son was left an orphan; and a prisoner in that far-off pestiferous land. Hurricane Hurry You see my opinion of slavery has changed; and so has that of England in church and state, except the working classes, who wish to vote, and such pestiferous democrats as Bright and Cobden. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "You pestiferous gnats insisted on grabbing the ball," he sneered. The Galaxy Primes We need all the people we can get, but they are a pestiferous outfit. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story We have no right to make our bodies pestiferous hospitals to bear about the seeds of disease, weakness, and misery. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. Lucy Snowe in one novel, and Hilda in the other, are left to pass a summer vacation, the one in Brussels and the other in pestiferous Rome. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) A low hot wind began to rise, and fan his cheek with pestiferous kisses, and enervate his frame with its poisonous embrace. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity "My wife tells me that he is a French music-master whom she hired to marry her in order that she might escape from a pestiferous person named Count Ladislas Vassilan," replied Curtis with cool directness. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York It suggests an idea of government made pestiferous by old abuse. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 They may both be of healthy, long-lived stock, but forced to live in a pestiferous slum which cuts both of them off prematurely and thereby creates a spurious correlation in the statistics. Applied Eugenics I told her to send them as much wine and jellies as she pleased, but to keep out of these pestiferous cottages. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel These were the pestiferous principles of the intermeddlers, who disturbed the tranquillity of Ribblesdale, and alienated the minds of the people from their good pastor. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel It is during the rainy season that this port earns the reputation of being one of the most pestiferous spots on the globe. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Often he carried wound about his waist a sack of netting into which he crawled at night to keep off the pestiferous mosquitoes. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century The intent of the chairman was to keep Darwin and his pestiferous book out of all the discussions: Darwin was a good man to smother with silence. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Instead of this, he sensibly sent word to a great seventy-four at Rio de Janeiro, begging her to come and drive the pestiferous Hornet away. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 If you won't borrow the money——" "I'll make dad sell out to you for eight thousand; he pockets one thousand and with the other seven your money-grabbing, pestiferous old granddad is paid off. Man to Man Besides these thus rendezvoused, the people of the southern counties were called upon to bushwhack the enemy, to obstruct roads, to guard trains, bridges, etc., and to make themselves generally useful and pestiferous. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War It is said that friendly deities and war spirits of the settlement announce from the lofty mountain heights the approach of these pestiferous demons. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Two head-nets if your stay is long, one if short, to be worn in case of swarms of pestiferous flies and mosquitoes. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls I am glad to get away," said one of these, James Eliot by name, to the prince; "and hope that your Highness will soon leave this pestiferous Spain. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The most pestiferous and difficult to adjust to the law of progress and advancement. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul But they found every place fully occupied by the pestiferous English sparrows, who darted at them maliciously. Some Spring Days in Iowa Still, in spite of famine, cold, and the most complete destitution, the devotedness of a few surgeons and a remnant of hope, still supported a great number of wounded in this pestiferous abode. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 This troublesome dog is a pestiferous creature, which might possibly be tolerated in country clover fields, but is most woefully out of place in a Fifth Avenue house. Infelice Not long afterwards her brother died, and she withdrew to Normandy, glad, doubtless, to be well out of that pestiferous island, but, mayhap, mourning that her arrogant folly had robbed her of a throne. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The very atmosphere in which ye live is pestiferous because of you. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul In his imagination rose the gloomy scenes of the hundreds and thousands of human beings pent up in the pestiferous air. The Awakening The Resurrection The peasants used to collect these pestiferous morsels and made them into padded quilts. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Did you die on your bed, or meet with an accident? or how did these beads you loved so well come into this horrid, pestiferous well? The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. Leaving the everlastingly pestiferous question of cost aside, what is the best all-around flooring? The Complete Home He flung them off like a lot of pestiferous puppies, and cleared the door. The Furnace of Gold "The pestiferous creature followed me unseen from the house," Kenkenes explained, rather flushed of countenance. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt There seemed no hope left to them of making head against their pestiferous invaders. King Alfred of England Makers of History We've cleared this land of disease germs, if there were germs in it, by turning it bottom-side up; now let's start free from the pestiferous vermin that make a hen's life unhappy. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm If these or similar horrors were perpetrated by Atheists, who can doubt that Roman Catholics would at once ascribe them to the pestiferous influence of Atheistical principles. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles For two days the men are without food, but worse still are the pestiferous air, the loathsome water, and the suffering of the wounded. In the Shadow of Death Hear his pestiferous Clamour vociferous, Gurgles and groans of the beastliest brand. The Glugs of Gosh Before the eyes of Sir Edmund lay that pestiferous paper which had given him such annoyance. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality We who do not want to know, also do not want to go blind, to go mad, to be disfigured, to be barren, to become pestiferous, or to see such things happening to our children. Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity The pestiferous atmosphere which surrounded Russian-Jewish life at that time could do no more than produce these poisonous growths of "religious reform." History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) "It seems that that pestiferous British frigate, the Talisman, lies at anchor in the bay on the other side of the island." Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific Now that pore Jim had a heap of good citizen in him, before that pestiferous cattle outfit druv' his sheep over the cliff. Judith of the Plains Of course they would find this pestiferous American who had caused her so much worry. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today The Republican paper called us pestiferous fanatics and infidels, and advised every decent man to stay away. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Likewise, the pestiferous water animals seem to invade the homes of Stazza, notwithstanding all efforts at prevention. Life in a Thousand Worlds Before attempting this barbaric disposal of the human form as a sanitary improvement, it would be better to clear the streets and "commons" of our cities of their pestiferous surroundings. Around The Tea-Table It would be impossible to prevent the half-starved Irish peasantry from crossing the Channel, and seeking employment, even at low wages, and forming a pestiferous Irish quarter in every town and city. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Of course the pestiferous Chronicle took an entirely different view of the situation. Queed The place was all one big mass heaped up in stench, still exhaling in its sleep a pestiferous odour. Abbe Mouret's Transgression I really believe there is more pestiferous trash read among the intelligent classes in July and August than in all the other ten months of the year. New Tabernacle Sermons Our guide, through ignorance or thoughtlessness, had allowed us to take up our bivouac within a very unsafe distance of one of the most pestiferous swamps in the whole province. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 "Oh, leave him alone, you pestiferous woman," old Hector cried sharply. Kindred of the Dust "Low-lying" districts are much talked about just now as breeding-grounds for the pestiferous Influenza microbe. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 She has gone, gone to her grave in the sea that lapped her timbers as they lay a-rotting under the rocks; and now pestiferous factories make hideous the landscape we found so fair. In the Footprints of the Padres Neither of these is really very destructive to poultry, but both are very destructive to mice, rats and other pestiferous creatures. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The sea had looked like a metal floor for months, the Island was parched and dry, the swamps on the lowlands were pestiferous. The Conqueror They told me also that on this great island, and all through the river, there were great numbers of fierce and pestiferous animals, which doubtless must be crocodiles. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time They've swiped about everything in sight for these pestiferous reserves, but they encourage the honest prospector. The Rules of the Game But the air is there so pestiferous, that there is no going thither for our nation without great mortality among the men. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Van Corlear was received with all due formality, hoodwinked at the portal, and conducted through a pestiferous smell of salt fish and onions to the citadel, a substantial hut built of pine logs. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete The depression west of the Nile, now known as the Fayyûm, was drained of its waters, and by means of embankments transformed from a pestiferous marsh into fertile fields. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The border papers were aflame with appeals to the "Law and Order" party to go over into Kansas and wipe out the pestiferous Free State men, who set at naught the Territorial Legislature. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler The Papal system denounced these Bible societies as "pestiferous Bible societies". The Harp of God Q. Why is a dog's tongue good for medicine, and a horse's tongue pestiferous? The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy We waste our future resources to get this strength, while we leave all the living fuel to burn itself out in mere pestiferous breath, and production of its variously noisome forms of ashes! The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm At that time the future Babylonia was a pestiferous marsh, inundated by the unchecked overflow of the rivers which flowed through it. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Now a man who has the desire to exercise initiative and does not know how to put anything through is not only a useless person in society but the most pestiferous fellow in existence. Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators Of his own accord Rabbit broke into a steady lope, flinging his head sidewise now and then to discourage the pestiferous gnats that swarmed about his ears. Starr, of the Desert She has been constantly in that pestiferous place. The Three Brides The site is badly chosen, unhealthy, and more pestiferous than Sardinia. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera No poisonous serpents are found, but pestiferous insects, such as tarantulas, centipedes, scorpions, ticks, fleas, and mosquitos, supply this deficiency in a measure. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient And ever more and more pestiferously the infernal torment of the flies increased. The Flying Legion Mark how wonderfully a few strokes of dark-green paint, put on by the hand of genius, impart the idea of a pestiferous swamp. Round the Block Well, I would have suggested Topsail Island, but those pestiferous kids are going there, I hear. The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol Nevertheless they are tormented in this unfortunate place by the rays of the sun; the waters are impure and are pestiferous, the vapours malarious, and consequently everybody is ill. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera There is no way for you to get into, nor for me to get out of, this place of buttered willow wands, until I have deluded and circumvented this pestiferous, squinting young mortal. Figures of Earth He Here goes for a full account of my first, my last, my only real sweetheart, for I considered the professions of that pestiferous jackeroo as merely a grotesque caricature on the genuine article. My Brilliant Career What can be a more delightful relaxation to a Lancashire Mechanic than an hour or two in a Garden: what an escape from the pestiferous politics of the times. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Travelers complain also of the pestiferous peddlers who pursue them beyond the limit of patience. Modern India Excepting a few impudent, half-educated, and pestiferous pretenders, the Negro masses of the South are honest, well-meaning, industrious, and safe citizens. History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest For I assure you that the horror I then conceived for those pale botanical specimens in their pestiferous and increscent abundance, exceeded what words can describe. Angels & Ministers The organs of respiration became the seats of a putrid inflammation, blood was expectorated, and the breath possessed a pestiferous odor. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine We are handed over to Jews, Saracens, heretics and infidels, whose poison we always dread above everything, and by whom it is well known that some of our parents have been infected with pestiferous venom. The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury They are immoral and pestiferous demagogues, robbing the public whose pay they draw, and willing to go any length to maintain their seats. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 He was one of those persistently pestiferous insects tersely called by Carlyle "critic flies"—a descendant of that placed by aesop in St. Paul's cupola. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 "Did any one ever hear such a pestiferous child!" said Mr. Button, laughing as he spoke. Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there are no means of legal repression. The Secret Sharer The pestiferous breath of slavery taints the whole moral atmosphere of the north, and enervates the moral energies of the whole people. My Bondage and My Freedom The den upon which his eye now rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. Les Misérables He sneered: and the demon of discord entered our paradise, to poison with his pestiferous breath every opening joy. Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman There was only this pestiferous overlaying of shame and cowardice to be removed. The Damnation of Theron Ware Feeling its symptoms within the breast, men concealed it with fear and shame, and were only the more cruel to those unfortunates whose pestiferous sores were flagrant to the common eye. The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") It was a resurrection from the dark and pestiferous tomb of slavery, to the heaven of comparative freedom. My Bondage and My Freedom They were let out, sometimes by thousands, to work in pestiferous mines. Outline of Universal History In some cases, where the current was not strong, a sort of living bridge was formed, over which immense numbers of these pestiferous insects passed in safety and dry shod. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale The squad, over in the bunkhouse, noisily donned gridiron armor for the morning practice, and the pestiferous Hicks was maintaining a mysterious silence, somewhere. T. Haviland Hicks Senior The rain kept falling; the quartet of slummers entered narrow patios where their feet sank into the pestiferous slime. The Quest Meat spoiled in a few hours in the fetid and pestiferous air, and turned black. Life on the Mississippi, Part 6. Look at this pestiferous woman…curse those heathen…oh! oh!…' she was only able to roar, leaning against the wall. Selected Polish Tales The element wells out hot, from under the neighbouring Kasbah, with a pestiferous mineral aroma. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia "See that you do, you pestiferous insect!" threatened Beef McNaughton, ominously. T. Haviland Hicks Senior "Off, thou pestiferous fungus lest I tread on thee—hence, away!" The Geste of Duke Jocelyn It was in the dungeons of our inhuman invaders; it was in the loathsome and pestiferous prisons, that the wretchedness of our countrymen still makes the heart bleed. American Prisoners of the Revolution The pestiferous skunk is universal; and there are two quaint-looking weasels, intensely black in colour, and grey on the back and flat crown. The Naturalist in La Plata In volcanic regions there are fissures in the rocks exhaling pestiferous emanations; these are the spiracula, the breathing-holes, of the dragon within. Old Calabria Was it for this that you have been toiling and throwing away your health in that pestiferous place? Chantry House Roses, violets, honeysuckle, pansies, cosmos, phlox, balsams, sunflowers, zinnias, blue Michaelmas daisies, dianthus, nasturtiums, &c., are on common ground with purely tropical plants, while ageratum has become a pestiferous weed. My Tropic Isle It only serves to keep alive the lingering folly of imbecile minds, and still to feed with pestiferous clouds the thoughts of the ignorant. Lives of the Necromancers He is a most pestiferous giant, with a numerous family. Adventures in the Land of Canaan Her husband carried her with him into the marshes of Volterra, celebrated then, as now, for the pestiferous effects of the air. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 The third weakness in our system, and in some respect the most dangerous, as it is in all respects the most pestiferous, is the insanity of law-making. Towards the Great Peace From Rome I went to Pompeii, stopping long enough at Naples, however, to learn that the impudence of the pestiferous porters is quite unendurable. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Here is the "pestiferous and obscene churchyard," completely hemmed in by the habitations of the living. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 When the bolt has spent itself in the pestiferous air, all nature is bright and glorious. Government and Rebellion The climate hereabouts is extremely salubrious, the rocky sandy site of the city being removed from all marshes or low lands, which produce pestiferous miasma or fever-exhaling vegetation. Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. When they entered one of these pestiferous dens, this impish crew clambered on the roof, to pelt them with snowballs through the smoke-holes. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Anticipate this treachery of your uncle, and let his now short and infirm existence moulder out in the pestiferous cell to which he would condemn your youthful strength. The Betrothed No sooner is one growth slain than a different and perhaps more pestiferous class rises in its place—the worst of the Philistines being nut-grass, quack-grass, and—direst foe of all— wire-grass. Success with Small Fruits The scales fell from his eyes, and from the kindly gentle Southern man of knightly instincts and gallant achievements was born—the "pestiferous Radical." Bricks Without Straw He presently found himself in a street which, if narrower than its neighbours, smelt less pestiferous. In Kedar's Tents Albinia, we must look after that poor lad; he is positively poisoned by that pestiferous river and bad living! The Young Step-Mother No doubt the pestiferous air caused by the horrible carnage of Freiburg had poisoned the wound. Stray Pearls Indeed, it might even appear that she had a leaning toward her small children, no matter how pestiferous they are. Success with Small Fruits There was really only one drawback—the pestiferous draft-boards that never stopped snooping round. Jimmie Higgins The land, also, can be more evenly and deeply plowed before obstructions are placed upon it, and roots, pestiferous weeds, and stones removed with greatest economy. The Home Acre So when in that Stinksmeech Mission he breathed pestiferous air and drank pestiferous water, he was finished up. The Long Vacation More than once she had witnessed quarrels in the alleyway behind the Circuit, where pestiferous youths of Wharton's caliber were frequent visitors. The Auction Block The Uscoques were originally Dalmatians who settled at Segna on the Adriatic and became the most pestiferous colony of pirates and desperadoes of sixteenth century Europe. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Some innocent Orientals would suffer, but the police might at least be enabled to capture the pestiferous gang which has committed this latest outrage. Number Seventeen I do not advise severe cutting, however, after the middle of June, for this reason: it is well known that the most pestiferous perennial weed can be killed utterly if never allowed to make foliage. The Home Acre If I had my way, the pestiferous things should never come near my house. Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. The air is pestiferous; warm and diseased, it fans us as we approach. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter Dunfield offered no prominent features save the chimneys of its factories and its fine church, the spire of which rose high above surrounding buildings; over all hung a canopy of foul vapour, heavy, pestiferous. A Life's Morning He drew back, and said bluntly, 'Never mind me, only keep out of this pestiferous air.' Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 O these pestiferous dealers in facts and these prosy philosophers, the world must have surcease from them and wander in the great spaces. Letters of Franklin K. Lane With such lightning swiftness had the venom darted through the veins of the unhappy empress, that her attendants had fled in disgust from the pestiferous atmosphere of her chamber. Joseph II. and His Court Damp and pestiferous, a hollow gloominess seems to pervade the place, as if it were a pest-house for torturing the living. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter If I had not kept my face wrapped in a cloth, I am almost sure they would have blinded me, so pestiferous and poisonous are the bites of these little demons. Pioneers of France in the New World It is the pestiferous purple which renders the progress of civilization a curse, and warps the understanding, till men of sensibility doubt whether the expansion of intellect produces a greater portion of happiness or misery. Vindication of the Rights of Woman The army suffered greatly from the glare and burning of the sun-scorched sand, and from the myriads of pestiferous insects that infested the country; but Napoleon cheered them on. Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica For, indeed, your majesty, it is easier to confront death on the battle-field than to face it in the pestiferous atmosphere of a sick-room. Joseph II. and His Court After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there. Moby Dick, or, the whale The air there was so pestiferous that I could not have conceived a human creature could breathe it, and live. Zanoni Let these pestiferous fellows be sent back to Roman and Italian lazarettos.. The French Revolution - Volume 2 After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale I will impart to you a discovery of a far wider scope than the trifling matter that our water supply is poisoned and our medicinal Baths are standing on pestiferous soil. An Enemy of the People Before the earthquake, a pestiferous wind spread so poisonous an odour, that many, being overpowered by it, fell down suddenly and expired in dreadful agonies. The Black Death The Dancing Mania At the farther side he found the horses standing out on a sandy ridge where the mosquitoes were not quite so pestiferous. Cow-Country And then would his nostrils begin to lift and sniff at the creeping up of a thick pestiferous vapour. The Egoist In the lowlands and along the river-courses were fens, sometimes hundreds of miles in extent, exhaling their pestiferous miasms, and spreading agues far and wide. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh. Martin Eden And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there are no means of legal repression. 'Twixt Land and Sea |
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