| 单词 | pestilence |
| 例句 | That is pestilence, not peace, the old knight told himself with his last sip of wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Earth was a planet, as Copernicus had said, and it was entirely obvious to Kepler that the Earth, wracked by wars, pestilence, famine and unhappiness, fell short of perfection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "How can we talk of peace while the Lannisters spread like a pestilence over my father's domains, stealing his crops and slaughtering his people? I say again, we ought to be marching on Harrenhal." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Good day, Mrs. Cook. It is a pleasure to see you survived the terrible pestilence. Why don’t go we inside where you’ll be more comfortable?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a few days’ close contact with the pestilence, Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Ricketts’ was located in a quiet residential area many blocks away from the docks where the pestilence had first struck. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “They are hill of the pestilence,” she said grimly. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not until this pestilence has left my lungs.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Viserys had oft claimed that Targaryens were untroubled by the pestilences that afflicted common men, and so far as she could tell, it was true. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The gods have sent this pestilence to humble me. So many dead... I will not have them eating corpses.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A pestilence of rain we received, the likes of which we had never seen or dreamed about in Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The pestilence had grown so thick within his throat in colonies and clusters that he could not even sip water without the most excruciating pain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In Stromford there had been much talk of this devastating pestilence, “the Great Mortality,” as it was called. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “The only creatures to benefit from this pestilence are the rats. Go home, Matilda, take my regards to your grandfather, but tell him he must lock all the doors and pray for frost.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since most villages lived by cultivating a very limited variety of domesticated plants and animals, they were at the mercy of droughts, floods and pestilence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Superstition was a widely available nostrum for people powerless against the miseries of famine, pestilence and deadly doctrinal conflict. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “He died before I was born. In the pestilence.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “The healer woman put a comfrcy salve on it to draw out the pestilence.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw what lay ahead: a gruesome parade of pestilence. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z What would happen if blacks responded to the pestilence in the same way as whites, with panic and flight? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She saw with quiet impotence how the deluge was pitilessly exterminating a fortune that at one time was considered the largest and most solid in Macondo, and of which nothing remained but pestilence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He threw out a wave of pestilence and decay. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Hera sent a fearful pestilence which destroyed the people by thousands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When the chamber was clean, Madam told me to open the windows again and let them stand open all afternoon to make sure there was no lingering pestilence in the air. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning in 1616, the pestilence took at least three years to exhaust itself and killed as much as 90 percent of the people in coastal New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the devil and his pestilences, what was going on now? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z People of every rank and station wanted to escape the spreading pestilence and breathe the fresh, healthy air of the countryside. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He told them that they could not hold out against both the pestilence and the Trojans, and that they must either find a way to appease Apollo or else sail home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Iliad, however, begins after the Greeks have reached Troy, when Apollo sends the pestilence upon them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In return Apollo sent a pestilence, and Poseidon the sea serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is fevered. She has caught some pestilence from the land of rats.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “By Saint Roch, it’s the pestilence,” he said, confirming my fears. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Hold the basin right against her arm. The pestilence boils within her blood and must be drained.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was word that the pestilence crawled towards the city from the north shore, and that soon, in the alleys, we should be dying of it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Robbing a little child. The pestilence and pox on you. Just you wait until I've grown back to a decent size...” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Those whom fire has spared are drowned by water; the man rescued from the water is saved only by air tainted with pestilence; and the survivor of war is ruined by wasting sickness.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In addition, Tawantinsuyu was invaded by other European pestilences, to which the Indians were equally susceptible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All of them “would die from the pestilence,” each and every one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He found, amid pestilence, a subject more urgent than the courtly portraits that would eventually make his name. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z These headlines recall the most frightening chapters of antiquity, times of pestilence and war, a steady mood of darkening apocalypse. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z Fear of pestilence aboard ship cannot curb our appetite for tales of the sea. Review | This summer: Audiobooks that make you feel like you’re on a vacation 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Some early readers of the novel have found the story to be eerily resonant: a rampaging pestilence, forced isolation, a global effort among scientists to develop new lifesaving technology. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z But I’ll tell you mine, and I hope it will help: even with all the plagues, and all the pestilence, I would still rather be here. 'It feels irresponsible to have a second child and yet I want one. How do I grapple with this?' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z “In a way, the financial crisis is like a plague or a war, except that the pestilence and carnage are metaphorical.” Sunday Reading: Banking Scandals 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z But there is a danger that any species with our technological power will quickly find a way of destroying itself, whether by war, pestilence or pollution. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z We lament the current social climate as though it were anomalous, an outbreak of pestilence, when in reality these iniquities reverberate through our American centuries. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z War, death, famine and pestilence — the full team of apocalyptic horsemen — have ravaged the land. Review: Out of Africa (and Kansas City) Comes The Good Lie 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It's the vampire as pure predator, a gaunt, subhuman pestilence, the ultimate parasite whose host is the rest of us. 2010-01-09T05:10:00Z Lawrence, in subsequent panels, outlines the reasons for the migration: labor shortages in northern cities, catastrophic floods and boll-weevil pestilence in the South and, of course, virulent racial prejudice against blacks. SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z In September, the garden has none of the black-earthed promise of the springtime, but for all its pockets of tattiness and pestilence, the fall patch is a place of fulfillment and, aye, of mellow fruitfulness. Monticello’s ode to autumn WARNER: Mankind is a pestilence, bent on destroying ourselves and others, but occasionally we break free from our monstrousness and achieve something like grace. Internet predators, vicious Amazon reviews, and how Mitt Romney’s smile inspired a novel 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Famine, pestilence, melting ice caps and other catastrophes wrought by Kali will be visited on the disrespectful. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z Vasiliy Fet, the city exterminator extraordinaire, fares no better as he tries to warn his estranged father about an advancing "pestilence." 'The Strain' recap: A vampire free-for-all begins in 'Occultation' 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Rather than depict the battles and the pestilence head-on, here it’s as if paint itself has gone to war. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Mandel does address the fact that Shakespeare, too, knew pestilence. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “Devouring pestilence hangs in our air, and thou art flying to a fresher clime.” Style Invitational Week 1433: Questionable Journalism 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Stories of life-devouring flood, famine and pestilence are woven with references to such seemingly trivial phenomena as television cooking shows and selfies. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Many American fundamentalists, O’Gieblyn explains in “The End,” believe that the Second Coming will be preceded by a period of tribulation, involving “pestilence, natural disasters and the rise of the Antichrist.” Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Everywhere there is clear writing about pestilence and science. A Virus Upends the World in a Sweeping New Novel 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “Musicians, if they choose to, can drive a tonal wedge through the noisome pestilence; the stench that often accompanies our contemporary societal lifestyles,” he said. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z A destiny manifested through misinformation, butchery and engineered pestilence. More Shabazz Palaces mystery: Sasquatch! 2010 poster, website prose 2010-05-19T23:31:00Z Floods, pestilence, famines, wildfires: What he calls the “elements of climate chaos” are veritably biblical in scope. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z At a time when we face many plagues — pestilence, fire, drought, floods — I find it particularly meaningful to return to the biblical riches that symbolize rebirth and renewal, which we so deeply need today. This Rosh Hashana Salad Is a Fresh Take on Ancient Flavors 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z There was a crown of mirrored shards that summoned a supernatural pestilence. Falling for Couture’s Gravitational Pull 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Global economic collapse ensues, as all our great cities suffer Mosul-like violence, famine and pestilence, while a remnant of humanity eventually survives by scavenging and subsistence farming. Even in the 21st century, H.G. Wells still speaks to our fears and dreams 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z “The Mummy” is the first of a slew — a swarm? a pestilence? — of features reviving those old creatures, including the one from the Black Lagoon. Review: ‘The Mummy,’ With Tom Cruise, Deserves a Quick Burial 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z It had witnessed the rise and fall of empires, invasion and occupation by infidels, heresies large and small, plague and pestilence, and ruinous wars of king against king and emperor against pope. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z The pestilence, in this case, is not zombies but us: human beings, who kill not from hunger but coldly and casually, because it’s mildly convenient. Review: A Watered-Down ‘Watership Down’ on Netflix 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The narratives of tropics simultaneously containing possibilities for paradise and pestilence can be traced back to the beginning of colonial scientific exploration. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z The aforementioned scene in a bar plays like a B-movie rehash of Oedipus learning about pestilence at Thebes. Review: Balagan experiments boldly with 'Oedipus' 2010-05-27T20:18:00Z Being a purveyor of pretend pestilence might seem an odd career turn for Oliver, 40, who was a Chicago corporate attorney when he incorporated Giant Microbes in 2001. Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on 2010-12-18T16:09:14Z Instead there’s much chitchat about blood and mutilation, pestilence and plague. | 'What She Knew': Oedipus? Mom Explains It All to You 2010-12-08T20:38:00Z “Plague,” in the sense that it’s been used repeatedly in the discourse over the last few months, is a metaphor — not a pestilence, at least not according to its original definition, but a violent attack. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z It is true that Tom is a pestilence with cognitive issues. Perspective | Who would be a better president than the current one? For starters, my cat. 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z “Fun and games in pestilence/We could use, use some kindly kindliness,” he sings in “Tag,” adding, “Still shake your fist/A kind of gritted bliss.” Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z This year, the cicadas coincide with a triptych of human-born pestilence. I’m terrified of the cicada onslaught 2013-05-20T23:45:00Z Blood flowed out of the monster as if it were a “leech filled with the blood of many persons”; with the monster defeated, “the pestilence which was rife among the people ceased.” Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z By their very nature, these are dark, depressing, violent affairs beset by plagues, pestilence and all manner of unnatural and otherworldly forces. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Death refused to take a holiday and a pestilence stormed across the globe. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z That form of communication takes on a new usefulness when the world is hit with a winged pestilence: batlike creatures attracted to noise and flesh. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Silence’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z His study came on the heels of another one published last November, which found that nearly a third of southern Sierra forests were killed by wildfires, drought and pestilence over the last decade. Millions of California trees are dying; Joshua trees are just the latest victims 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z War, famine, pestilence and death — that dreaded equine quartet — threaten to topple our dominance on this planet. Are humans a cancer on the planet? A physician argues that civilization is truly carcinogenic 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z We instinctively comfort ourselves: I will never set foot in a submersible, my life will never be uprooted by war or pestilence. Opinion: Here's one more thing to worry about in California — tsunamis 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z But what gave this pestilence particularly severe force was that whenever the diseased mixed with healthy people, like a fire through dry grass or oil it would rush upon the healthy. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z When that happened, the gods could bring death and devastation through floods and pestilence. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Tuberculosis has carried off many of their neighbors, and the pestilence has provoked a range of superstitious remedies among the villagers. ‘The God of Endings’ review: A look at the dubious pleasure of eternal life 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “If you let sewer rats in,” said Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s online safety commissioner, “you know that pestilence is going to come.” Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going. 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s that pesky speed-of-light limit on cosmic travel — not to mention war, pestilence and the eventual asteroid that has Earth’s name on it. Let’s Hack the Universe 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z When the ferocity of the pestilence began to mount, for the most part people ceased with this custom and replaced it with a far different one. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Zumba’s livelihood would then take another hit: a 2013 a pestilence decimated his small cacao plantation and to this day he doesn’t have the $1,500 necessary to replant. In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In 2013, Zumba’s livelihood would then take another hit: a pestilence decimated his small cacao plantation and to this day he doesn’t have the $1,500 necessary to replant. In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z All kinds of pestilence writhes within raw turkey meat, and safe preparation isn't just a good idea — it's a must to keep everyone at the Thanksgiving table safe. How to kill the most common pathogens in turkey 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z We have also seen that the pestilence he embodies is not limited to him. Whatever the hell happens in this election, let's commit to facing the truth 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z In the Scripture, Jesus presents a long list of natural disasters, pestilences and global upheavals. End is near, new Bible prophecy books assert as market demand surges 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Banning orders and jail sentences for serious offenders are the only measures than can cure the game of this pestilence. Who is having the time of his life? Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z “Wherever they’re successful, only pestilence and disease will follow in their wake.” Everything You Need to Know about Polio in the U.S. 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z “There are a lot of viruses that have been named after different places in Africa, which contributes to an inappropriate association of disease and pestilence to parts of Africa,” Besser said. MPX? Mpox? The struggle to replace ‘monkeypox’ with a name that isn’t racist 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z He is the bottom of a dumpster that hasn't been cleaned for a lifetime, sprung to life as a living pestilence. Donald Trump is finally running scared: Liz Cheney and Jan. 6 committee have him cornered 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z These hearings are shaping up as a solid roadmap toward wiping away this human stain and pestilence from our national psyche. Jan. 6 miniseries unfolds plot: Barr calls bulls**t, Rudy was drunk and Trump's in trouble 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z They found genetic fingerprints of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in individuals who had been buried with tombstones referring to a “pestilence” at the site by Lake Issyk Kul, in what is now Kyrgyzstan. Black Death’s ancient origins traced to lake in Central Asia 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But he knew the medieval diagnosis of “pestilence” encompassed many horrific diseases. 800-year-old graves pinpoint where the Black Death began 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Some had inscriptions saying, in an old language, Syriac, that the person had died of “pestilence.” Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue. 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But now the crisis is real and present, with food shortages, electric outages and pestilence already plaguing us. Opinion | As climate catastrophes multiply, Republicans rethink denialism 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Masque of the Red Death," attendees of a festive ball held during a mysterious pestilence meet their doom. How many people died because Trump mocked mask-wearing? We'll never know 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z It doesn't take much to say you're better than that flea circus of pestilence. Joe Biden is finding out that "better than Trump" is not nearly good enough 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Now, Slavin is senior author of a new study of ancient DNA from the “pestilence” victims showing they were indeed infected with the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, that caused the Black Death. 800-year-old graves pinpoint where the Black Death began 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The researchers found plague DNA in the teeth of three individuals whose tombstones said had they died of “pestilence.” Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue. 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Or, as Sen. John Berrien of Georgia said, official relations with Haiti would “introduce a moral contagion” that would make even the most horrifying pestilence seem “light and insignificant.” The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Or, as Senator John Berrien of Georgia said, official relations with Haiti would “introduce a moral contagion” that would make even the most horrifying pestilence seem “light and insignificant.” The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if the trend is among the most heinous scourges on the human race, like war, famine, pestilence. ‘Chic' carpet is the interior design trend born from the dustbin of American culture 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z When he reported that the people had died of “pestilence,” they each immediately thought, “We should do DNA!” 800-year-old graves pinpoint where the Black Death began 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z There have been fires, floods and the pestilence of a global pandemic. Australia election: Enter a lacklustre advert for democracy 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Fugitive blacks got the worst food, clothing, and shelter available, so pestilence took thousands who had just grasped their liberty. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The flight of refugees through history has incited warnings that they carried disease and pestilence — charges sparked more often by xenophobic hysteria than fact. Russia spread anti-vax lies in Ukraine. Will it cause a COVID crisis for Europe? 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z "I hope our good neighbors support us and remember that this pestilence can go beyond Ukraine. Good people must stand up for what is right." In LA's Eastern European diaspora, solidarity for Ukraine 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “I hope our good neighbors support us and remember that this pestilence can go beyond Ukraine. Good people must stand up for what is right.” In LA’s Eastern European diaspora, solidarity for Ukraine 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Some transplants came to realize that urban density, the close contact with fellow citizens that seemed so threatening in a time of pestilence, was the first thing they missed. They fled for greener pastures, and there were weeds 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Tragically, the exchange brought pestilence, enslavement, and destruction to the Taínos, but Native Americans managed to survive through a tenacious process of resistance and adaptation. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z No pestilence had been ever so fatal, or so hideous,” begins Poe’s 1842 tale about a prince who parties with revelers safely locked away in his posh castle while the hoi polloi outside perish. Review: A new piano concerto by Daníel Bjarnason gets a little help from Edgar Allan Poe 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z None of that has changed, but the times certainly have, and in an era of global pestilence and heightened geopolitical turmoil, Emmerich’s doomsday visions offer a strange and generally welcome comfort. Review: 'Moonfall' is stupid. That's mostly a good thing 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Along the way, Wolf helped aspiring grape growers and winemakers with myriad problems, pests and pestilence that challenged every would-be vintner’s dream in the Old Dominion’s humid climate. Perspective | If you’ve ever enjoyed a Virginia wine, raise a glass to this retiring scientist 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “Younger generations have never known anything like it. The succession of natural disasters — from drought to flood, fires, pestilence, a once-in-a-century global pandemic, the recession it caused — has pushed our country to the very limits.” Australia has $1 billion plan to convert ideas into jobs 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Pogroms and pestilence would kill the majority of the Indigenous population over the next century. More Australians are paying tribute to Indigenous people. Some worry it’s just lip service. 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Poverty blights whole cities, spreads horrible pestilences, strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it. Ghislaine Maxwell's trial is a sideshow — powerful, abusive men will not be held accountable 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z They were known, from the 1921 movie “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. Commentary: Greed in college football? Lincoln Riley and Brian Kelly are just the latest examples 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “Go before the border closes, the crevasse widens, the herd thins, the engine stalls, or the pestilence spreads,” he implores. Review: How a SoCal travel writer found beauty in the ugly places 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The first-place Arizona Cardinals and Las Vegas Raiders each conquered pestilence and hardship as longtime assistants rallied their resilient teams to road victories in Week 6. Fill-ins lead first-place, unrattled Cards & Raiders to wins 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It was here that the first isolated pestilence hospital was built on a solitary island in the lagoon, a precursor to today’s COVID-19 isolation wards. No stranger to plagues, Venice opens film fest with caution 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z It ended like a real-life biblical apocalypse, complete with floods, pestilence, locusts, and the worst drought in modern California history. Column: Apocalypse, cow — our growing drought and the great L.A. cattle escape 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Old records are shedding light on a 1700s pestilence with uncanny parallels to our pandemic. Live: Coronavirus daily news updates, May 21: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Now, digitized church records are helping to round out the picture of how the colonists coped when it was their turn to endure pestilence. Old records shed new light on smallpox outbreaks in 1700s 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z They sang Psalm 91 in Punjabi: Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. Hope here, despair there: For Indian Americans, heartbreak over the homeland 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z In a Europe emerging from the bubonic plague, from cramped cities prone to pestilence and fire, there was an increased “fascination with airy space.” The Fragrances That Changed the Field 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The world’s answer is war, natural disasters and pestilence. Opinion | A falling U.S. birthrate is actually a gift to the planet 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z They were, however, frequently tagged as vermin, pestilence and counterfeit human beings. Perspective | Racists beat my Chinese grandmother. She knew the police would never care. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The game also uses the sound of swarming flies in various locales, which hint at pestilence and death. Why Call of Duty: Warzone is an all-time great horror game 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z “It should not be left to the vagaries of chance to encourage or stay the progress of those forms of disease, which neglected, become pestilences,” he argued. The Pandemic and the Limits of Science 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z It will grow until it chokes itself to death and succumbs to disease, pestilence and ultimately catastrophic wildfire. House votes to set aside 3 million Western acres in ‘massive land grab’ 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z As the Sumerians tracked this “wandering star” crossing the sky in the third millennium B.C.E., they noted its foreboding color and associated it with the malevolent deity Nergal, god of pestilence and war. Why are people so dang obsessed with Mars? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Inauguration Day in the capital city dawned to fierce winds, as if Nature herself were sweeping away the pestilence, financial misery, political violence and lies. Opinion | A president replaced. A nation redeemed. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z He would rather, he said, suffer "pestilence and famine" than see Frederick Douglass, a Black man and former slave, elected president. "Fort Trump": President wants to rename base honoring Confederate general for himself 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Knocking down the pestilence would open the possibility for economic recovery, as people feel safe traveling, shopping in stores and malls, eating at restaurants, taking cruises and returning to physical offices. So we finally made it through 2020. Um … now what? 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z If cities were going to be crushed by pestilence, they would have died millenniums ago. We can rebuild American cities after COVID-19 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Before the war started, Benning had said he preferred “pestilence and famine” to Black equality. Opinion | Let Trump try to defend racist, traitorous Confederates. Congress can still prevail. 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z “It’s a point of pride with me to ignore any guidelines that would prevent my bringing pestilence with me to this important family holiday,” one celebrator noted. Opinion | Americans revive spirit of first Thanksgiving by carrying disease to new areas 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z As often as these stories of pestilence and slaughter are sanitized, stories of Indigenous resistance are erased. Opinion | Captain Chain Saw’s Delusion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z It seemed appropriate to seek out this master of pestilence in a time of pandemic. Where are the bones of Hans Holbein? I spent lockdown solving art's grisliest mystery 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Stewart declared she would be "a willing martyr" for the African-American cause: "I can but die for expressing my sentiments: and I am as willing to die by the sword as the pestilence." Tear down the statues of racist traitors — and raise monuments to heroes of Black resistance 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Certainly, the fear of pestilence is already causing us to shun subways, thereby hurting a crucial mechanism that allows cities to thrive. Dystopia or utopia? The future of cities could go either way | Chris Michael 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Its residents have lived through multiple military coups, sieges, earthquakes, pestilence and other calamities, and know well that life must go on. In Istanbul Under Lockdown, Baklava Makers Are Essential Workers 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The world’s three leading religions have survived famines, plagues, pestilence and wars. After surviving wars, pestilence, religions use technology to beat pandemic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.” For locked-down high-schoolers, reading ‘The Plague’ is daunting, and then comforting 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z And when that thread is broken, by age or by pestilence, many stories will end with it, some never told. They Survived the Holocaust. Now They’re Confronting the Virus. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z “The pestilence began on Good Friday,” with many of the “best clergy” falling ill, Bishop Pitirim said. A ‘Breakdown of Trust’: Pandemic Corrodes Church-State Ties in Russia 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z American pestilence popped up periodically afterward, at least since the Barbary Plague was hushed up in Gilded Age San Francisco for fear of ruining the booming local produce industry, circa 1900. Commentary: U.S. should build a memorial 'plague column' for COVID-19, but where? Here's an idea 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The Times story prompted a slew of comments on social media, noting the appearance of the hornets in the US in 2020, alongside famine, pestilence and war. 'Murder hornets' in Washington state threaten bees and whip up media swarm 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z “The human experience. An experience both random and uncontrolled and, of course, peppered with pestilence, but it is something we all share.” For locked-down high-schoolers, reading ‘The Plague’ is daunting, and then comforting 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z For 14 months pestilence, pitiless and seemingly random, ravaged the village. What can the 'plague village' of Eyam teach us? 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The program aims to trace all of an infected person’s recent contacts to try to stem the spread of the pestilence. In San Francisco, Latinos account for 25% of coronavirus cases 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Few things are more pressing than eradicating the social pestilence symbolized by the place. Commentary: U.S. should build a memorial 'plague column' for COVID-19, but where? Here's an idea 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “There will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another food shortages and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs.” ‘People Would Be So Receptive Right Now, and We Can’t Knock on Doors.’ 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Albrecht Dürer’s cycle of 15 woodcuts at the end of the 15th century came at a time of pestilence and peasants’ revolts. The forgotten French tapestry with lessons for our apocalyptic times 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “A pestilence,” Procopius wrote of the plague, “by which the whole human race was near to being annihilated.” History’s deadliest pandemics, from ancient Rome to modern America In his novel The Plague, Camus said that “we learn in time of pestilence ... that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.” Does Surging Existential Dread Help Trump? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z And in a time of pestilence, the purest act of patriotism is protecting fellow citizens not only with action but also with inaction, putting life into suspended animation so that others may live. Opinion | Coronavirus in America: A Highlight Reel 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z In his novel “The Plague,” published in 1947, Albert Camus did not extend his imagined pestilence to the entire globe, like the coronavirus that is threatening the planet now. Perspective | In Camus’ ‘The Plague,’ lessons about fear, quarantine and the human spirit 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Michael “Action” Jackson, a figure of stability in a time of pestilence. ‘It’s like we’re expendable’: Detroit's first responders fall to COVID-19 pandemic 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Last December, I began rehearsing “Timon of Athens,” another tragedy composed during the worst years of the pestilence, but one traditionally dismissed by critics and audiences alike. Opinion | An unsung masterpiece finds its moment of truth in the District 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Globalization may have bound humanity in uneven chains of trade and profit, but it did not dissolve the primal fear of uncontrolled pestilence that has burrowed into human consciousness over millenniums. Photos From a Century of Epidemics 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z “Jesus said there would be pestilences and great signs in the heavens. And sure enough, both of those things are happening together.” This is not the end of the world, according to Christians who study the end of the world 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z His mission, he ultimately declares, is to state what we learn in a time of pestilence: “There are more things to admire in men than to despise.” Perspective | In Camus’ ‘The Plague,’ lessons about fear, quarantine and the human spirit 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z You can see those twin pestilences sprouting furiously on both US coasts. Unprepared America wakes up to coronavirus, gradually then all at once 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z At the time, Jewish people were scapegoated for the pestilence: One incident in present-day France saw 1,000 Jews burned alive after the group was accused of poisoning wells. Coronavirus spurs prejudice. History suggests that’s no surprise. 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The far right and its mainstream collaborators, along with the energy extraction industry, the finance sector, and corrupt oligarchs, are certainly a form of pestilence, a “them” that needs to be countered. How to displace the great replacement 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Knights escort an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in the hope of ending the pestilence ravaging Europe. Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: 'Throne of Blood' and more 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Funny that there’s pestilence always close to Trump. Perspective | The vermin in the White House 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z They are vectors of Clostridium difficile, salmonella, E. Coli, and Leptospira—consumers of refuse and carriers of pestilence. Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, and the Definition of a Rodent 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The ancient pestilence is a growing menace again in the United States, as well as around the world. Florida editorial roundup 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The threatened collapse of our life-support systems is bigger by far than war, famine, pestilence or economic crisis, though it is likely to incorporate all four. Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it | George Monbiot 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Sea lice are emerging that are immune to pesticides raising the spectre of a chemical arms race against the pestilence. Huge plans to expand Iceland's fish farms risk decimating wild fish populations 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z By the time he realized that human feces was being transported from 1,000 miles away to a nearby landfill site, a scene of biblical pestilence was unfolding upon West Jefferson. 'We're not a dump' – poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Before we unpack the pestilence of plastic though, let’s begin with a few basic facts. Plastic is probably harming your health—here’s how 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z “There is no one to claim them. There was disease and pestilence, and on top of that it’s a source of booby traps and a huge hazard to our force.” Matt Golsteyn planned to join the CIA and go to Iraq. Now he faces a murder charge. 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The U.S., for all practical purposes, had indeed eradicated these pestilences as vaccines developed by top health care pioneers like the legendary Dr. Jonas Salk virtually wiped out these dreaded afflictions. Editorials from around Oregon 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The declining kelp forests of northern California are unlikely to recover unless sea urchins succumb to a pestilence of their own or their natural predators are restored. ‘This is shocking.’ An undersea plague is obliterating a key ocean species 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z If it were fire or flood or famine or pestilence, this story would be much better known,” he said. 100 years ago in Boston: The day molasses was deadly fast 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z To fight the pestilence, the ants aligned themselves with a bacteria that produces a chemical capable of subduing the parasite. An Ancient Ant-Bacteria Partnership to Protect Fungus 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Unlike wildfire or pestilence, this president’s enthusiasm for twiddling his thumbs on Twitter cannot be contained. California Editorial Rdp 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Speaking of migrants from Tunisia, he said that the migrants weren’t fleeing “wars, epidemics, famines or pestilence” and that the country “isn’t exporting gentlemen, it seems more often they’re exporting convicts.” Italy’s New Populist Government Articulates Vision, but Few Specifics 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The industry requires property rights, which cannot be stomped on by pandering politicians with exaggerated fears of global warming and pestilence. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Aztecs called it the cocoliztli, meaning pestilence in the local Nahuatl language. One of history’s worst epidemics may have been caused by a common food poisoning microbe 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The word means pestilence in the Aztec Nahuatl language. Mexico: 500 years later, scientists discover what killed the Aztecs 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Some of these Americans may decide that the prophets aren’t to be trusted — and that the president isn’t quite the pestilence they make him out to be. Histrionics won’t defeat Trump 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “Unless something be done . . . the good citizens of Washington must during some hot seasons, find themselves visited by a pestilence!” A 47-ton witness to Washington’s past is slowly inched to the present 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The reason behind this “icky” phenomenon is that germs love warm places and our phones, face, and hands generate heat—making it a perfect storm to breed pestilence. HEALTH: Cellphones side effects 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z A pestilence unknown in Haiti for more than a century spread unchecked in a country with primitive wastewater systems already stricken by the earthquake, killing 10,000 and sickening a million. Editorials from around New York 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The plagues are, traditionally: blood, frogs, lice, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the killing of a firstborn. New York Today: How to Run for Office 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Life for many Somali refugees means confronting famine, anarchy, pestilence and death on a daily basis. For Stranded Somali Refugees, ‘Friend of America’ Is a Deadly Label 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The scourge of the HIV/Aids pandemic which swept sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s like a biblical pestilence made more urgent than ever the need to assist people to a pain-free death. 100 Women 2016: Fighting for a good death - BBC News 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s a pestilence — one whose repugnant views Trump has invited into his White House. Breitbart isn’t ‘just a publication.’ It’s a pestilence. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Oshinsky delineates the squalor in which impoverished immigrants have lived in New York and the pestilence associated with their misery. A public hospital that truly served the public over the centuries 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z However, the worst of the pestilence was over. Eyam plague: The village of the damned - BBC News 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z There is an optimism coursing through the 24th century that Roddenberry envisioned, one that imagines a united Earth that, having conquered poverty and hunger and pestilence, takes to the stars as one. Ranking every 'Star Trek' movie and TV series from first to worst 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z By the 23rd century, Roddenberry posited, imperfect humankind would somehow unite to conquer war, pestilence, intolerance and other ills to spread its enlightened vision into the final frontier of space. Who Stole My ‘Star Trek’? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z McNeil has covered other diseases of the world’s poor, including AIDS, malaria, avian flu, SARS, mad cow disease and other “plagues and pestilences,” as his author page puts it. What’s the best way to battle the expanding Zika epidemic? 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Hence, selecting poorly managed cities with dubious infrastructure capabilities, rampant crime, and of course a completely incapable health care apparatus in the midst of a contagious pestilence is idiocy of the first order. Brazil’s Olympic Catastrophe 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Loading up semi trailers with buzzing hives headed to points south doesn’t just protect bees increasingly weakened by disease and pestilence from harsh weather. For Wisconsin beekeepers, a question: To migrate, or not? 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z It would be melodramatic to suggest that this upcoming six-match stretch will define the Sounders’ season, that a loss to first-place Colorado on Saturday night at CenturyLink Field would bring pestilence and doom. Tough upcoming stretch could define Sounders’ season 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The Seder service recalls the Ten Plagues that God inflicted on the Egyptians: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and slaying of the firstborn. The Ten Plagues of Trump 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Organizers in Rio de Janeiro, like a monarch of yore, are beset on all fronts: befouled waters, a viral pestilence, a battered treasury, a besieged leader, a populace enraged. 400 years later, Shakespeare’s voice still echoes in sports 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Whereas ravens herald the arrival of death and pestilence or something, this bird merely means the players are about to enter the arena, which is a good thing, all told. Benfica v Bayern Munich: Champions League quarter-final – live! 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The pestilence seems to interfere with keratin in a frog's skin, making it hard for the animal to breathe and regulate electrolytes, often leading to a heart attack. How to Rescue These Adorable Tree Frogs The Republicans brought this pestilence upon themselves, starting with Newt Gingrich and Co. Donald Trump’s Presidential Run Began in an Effort to Gain Stature 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Ethiopians—both official and lay—are sensitive about their ancient, diverse country’s persistent association with misery and pestilence, while equally proud of its economic turnaround. On the edge of disaster 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Might Rupert Murdoch’s vision bring about what pestilence, fire and the Luftwaffe had failed to achieve?” Rupert Murdoch to marry Jerry Hall at 'cathedral of Fleet Street' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Whereas ravens herald the arrival of death and pestilence or something, this bird merely means the players are about to enter the arena, which is a good thing, all told. Benfica v Bayern Munich: Champions League quarter-final – live! 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Cataclysmic events including ear, famine and pestilence are increasingly looking very possible and perhaps even more likely. Why Are Corporations Hoarding Trillions? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The source of Maya's anxiety is a rapidly mutating pestilence that affects Dante's disreputable neighbors. Horror film 'Condemned' has a bad virus not worth catching 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But his most visible progressive effort is attempting to convert this traffic-choked city of 12 million into a bike- and bus-friendly zone where private cars are treated as a pestilence. Mayor Fernando Haddad’s Pro-Bike Push Polarizes São Paulo 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Biblical pestilence, plagues, fire, drought, floods, even skyrocketing prices are scary, but not more so than the continuation of the insidious kirchnerismo.” Police ‘Are Running Scared’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Biblical pestilence, plagues, fire, drought, floods, even skyrocketing prices are scary, but not more so than the continuation of the insidious kirchnerismo. Kirchner’s Exit Revives Argentine Hope 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The faithful, however, see the transformation as a sign that their patron saint is hard at work protecting Naples from pestilence, earthquakes and the hot temper of Mount Vesuvius. A pope beloved by many secular intellectuals is also passionate about miracles and relics 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The earlier guidelines characterized the discovery of America as mostly the story of Europeans bringing pestilence, destructive plants and cultural obliteration to American Indians. Hey, Conservatives, You Won 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It's why newspaper moguls have always put stories about war, famine, pestilence and death on their front pages rather than nice stories about lovely young men. Why villains are good for sport 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z This “pestilence” - a severe fluorine-intoxication from the ash - killed half of the Icelandic cattle population and a quarter of the sheep and horse population. This 1783 Volcanic Eruption Changed The Course Of History 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z On arrival at the vault, the seeds were plunged to a temperature of -18C, frozen in time against drought, pestilence, war, disease, and the slow-moving disaster of climate change. The doomsday vault: the seeds that could save a post-apocalyptic world | Suzanne Goldenberg 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z St. Vincent DePaul, who lived at that time and eventually lent his name to the university hosting Monday’s event, described his own lifetime as an era of “war, pestilence and famine.” Some Environmental Advocates Not Helping The Cause, Climate Scientist Says 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z "We still firmly believe that absence war, pestilence and famine, demand will continue to grow," Shell’s Henry said. Oil companies’ profits hit by quest for crude price exposure 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z “As you sit here, you denigrate me like I’m some sort of societal pestilence,” he said. Ronald Herron, Brooklyn Rapper Known as Ra Diggs, Gets 12 Life Prison Terms 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z “We’ve been protected by geography from world wars and pestilence,” she said. Durango native Margaret Liu is ‘The Mother of DNA Vaccines’ 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z “Neither ignorance nor imbecility can justify any person in establishing himself as a distribution centre of pestilence,” the editors wrote. Don't Make Vaccines a Partisan Issue After Christie Remarks 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z As the world warms, there will be more and more refugees fleeing droughts, pestilence, and extreme weather, worsening conflicts across the globe. 2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease,” Stewart said. The Risks of Viral Research 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Analyzing data from the Housing Vacancy Survey on complaints about leaks, cracked walls, pestilence and other issues from low-income households across the city, researchers found a pattern of escalating degeneration in public housing. In New York Public Housing, Policing Broken Lights 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Erick Erickson, the conservative writer and radio host, wrote: “At least this administration is consistent. It will let everyone and everything, including pestilence, cross our border.” G.O.P. Theme in Fall Election: It’s a Dark and Unsafe World 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z According to this belief, the End Times will be heralded by the bodily assumption of the righteous into heaven, followed by a period of pestilence, war, famine and death for those left behind. ‘Left Behind’ movie review: Reboot costs more, adds Nicolas Cage to amateurish mix It is also a public health pestilence that, critics say, vanquishes both brain cells and intellectualism. America’s Best and Drunkest Albert Camus in "The Plague" wrote, “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.” Stop Ebola by Building West African Health Systems 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z For instance, with sanitation, vaccines and antibiotics, pestilence went from being an act of God to a question of public health. The five biggest threats to human existence 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z And the very worst manifestation of entrepreneurial pestilence is, of course, California’s notorious Elon Musk. GOP Congressman Wants To Block Elon Musk From Competing In Space 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Along with famine, pestilence, war, it's estimated that a third of human life was wiped out. Here comes the flood 2014-03-21T17:03:18Z It was Rabelais’s “Gargantua and Pantagruel” all over again, and I told the farmers’ story slowly and carefully: Famine, floods and pestilence! Well: The Pies That Bind 2013-12-20T11:00:09Z Lobbying city officials and regulators, and comparing Downy and its Japanese counterparts to "pestilence," "industrial pollution" and "harassment," the nasally affronted are winning some small, but strategic, victories. In Japan, Fabric Softeners Wrinkle Some Noses 2013-12-13T03:46:45Z These radicals--it is wildly inaccurate to call them conservatives--are a pestilence feeding on ignorance and cynicism, preying on fear as a period of unprecedented prosperity wanes. Klein: Blame the Baby Boomers 2013-10-10T22:05:24Z Yes, droughts will get worse, flooding will get worse, pestilence will get worse, etc., etc., etc. Carbon Taxes Should Go To FEMA -- Who Else? 2013-10-08T06:48:00Z While communities might survive one failed harvest, two or more in a row threatened famine, which in turn could unleash pestilence and plague and massive social disruption. Here comes the flood 2014-03-21T17:03:18Z At various points during that long period the population fell, such as during the Black Death, and other assorted plagues and pestilence, and invasions from the Mongols and others. Population 10 Billion by Danny Dorling – review 2013-06-16T07:30:01Z Who would want that kind of job when he could just as soon save the world from famine, pestilence and stale popcorn along the right field line? Bryce Harper: A 20-year-old for the ages? 2013-05-12T00:46:21Z If your “CAUSE” involves the death of kids, it’s not a cause, it’s a pestilence. Dennis Lehane: Proud, brokenhearted to be Bostonian tonight 2013-04-16T08:52:00Z Wizards, witches, shamans – those with magical powers might release demons, pestilence or any number of evils, not the least being heretical thought, like science, that would turn the world as they knew upside down. Imagine There's No Fear 2013-03-24T04:02:41Z And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. Yesterday: Iraq. Tomorrow: Iran? 2013-03-18T15:13:32Z Abandoned factories and schools loom in empty shattered hulks over the sort of landscape that is usually the product of war or pestilence. Detroit: after decades of urban blight, technology boom gives Motor City hope 2013-01-12T14:22:05Z In the long term I am very optimistic about the City, because the City has shown throughout history that it is able to deal with pestilence, bombing, blitzes, fires, all those things. London's future skyline in doubt 2012-11-19T02:03:25Z Chris Christie said after the storms, he was now waiting for the locusts and the pestilence. Does God hear our cries? 2012-11-08T22:52:20Z “I am waiting for the locusts and pestilence next,” New Jersey Gov. Sandy-torn Northeast deals with more wind, snow 2012-11-08T14:32:00Z "I'm waiting for the locusts and pestilence next," he joked, in a reference to Old Testament plagues. Wintry storm brings new woe to hard-hit Northeast 2012-11-08T00:11:34Z I am waiting for the locusts and pestilence next. New storm hits battered New York 2012-11-07T23:01:26Z Another Tick-Borne Disease to Guard Against Despite its many delights, summer also brings its fair share of pestilence. Well: Babesiosis May One Day Rival Lyme Disease 2012-07-30T04:01:11Z In Chinese mythology, the advent of natural disasters — floods, earthquakes, snowstorms, drought, pestilence — is supposed to signal a revocation of the mandate of heaven that is bestowed by divine powers on earthly rulers. News Analysis: An Epic Flood Exposes a Creakier Beijing 2012-07-27T00:59:28Z It took pestilence and plague to revive the Lake Course at San Francisco's Olympic Club. A More Open Open Course 2012-06-07T04:00:00Z Here’s wishing famine and pestilence comes to all their tailgates. Mike Wise: Fans who yell ?Oh!? during national anthem are tainting a moment meant for patriotism 2012-05-19T21:15:42Z Like most European countries, Britain still has a smattering of offering caves, pagan ancient grottos where leaving gifts is believed to bring good luck, or simply stave off plague, pestilence and misfortune. Paul Scholes may have to play until he is 68 as austerity plan bites 2012-05-17T22:00:01Z Indeed dearth, murrain and pestilence went hand in hand, in that unhappy time we call the “good old days.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The monks often assisted by their labours provinces that were suffering from pestilence or famine. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z We have from the graphic hand of Chaucer a life-like portrait of a medical man of the fourteenth century who had gained his money in the time of pestilence. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z War, pestilence, the theologians: these were the three great enemies with which Erasmus says he had throughout life to contend. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z Poverty will be a pestilence in the South. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z But far more terrible than fire and flood were those two other scourges, with which nature afflicted the men of the middle ages, famine and pestilence. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z On the Alexandrian famines and pestilences, see Eusebius, H. E. vii. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The story of English pestilence closes with the Great Plague of London in 1665. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z And what needeth it here to speak of the destruction of good manners, since there is no man but knoweth right well that the universal pestilence of all mischievous living proceedeth at once from war. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z The railroads that pierce the vast interior quicken the internal commerce of the country, while the waters that are caused to flow over the rice-fields of Bengal abate the horrors of pestilence and famine. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Prehistoric pestilence The notion of digging so deep for life raises a darker question: Could some prehistoric pestilence be lurking in that ice waiting for a chance to come back and terrorize a defenseless population? Melting Glaciers Liberate Ancient Microbes 2012-04-18T15:45:01.093Z Every comet that blazed in the sky, every pestilence that swept over the land, appeared a confirmation of the dark threats of the theologian. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z No one need despair of the future in that direction; indiscretion and ignorance kill more human beings than plague, pestilence, or famine. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Besides all this, what mortal pestilence see we in every place. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z In 1399 an outbreak very similar to that of the Flagellants took place in Italy, stimulated by a pestilence which was ravaging the land. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Heresy was openly practised and taught; the heretic bishops set themselves up defiantly against the Catholic prelates, and there was danger that the pestilence would spread throughout the land. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z With the aid of the Normans he captured many fortresses and seriously crippled the power of the Greeks, but was compelled by the ravages of pestilence among his troops to return to Germany in 1022. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z “He was but easy of expense, He kept that he won in pestilence.” The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z But what is this, that worse is than any stepmother, which hath brought us forth this new unreasonable brute beast, the pestilence and mischief of all this world? Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z Earthquakes, pestilence, famine, had been disregarded warnings, and only the intercession of the Friends of God had obtained repeated reprieves. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z War and pestilence!" he thought, "bloodshed and death! Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z Hyllus and his brothers then invaded Peloponnesus, but after a year’s stay were forced by a pestilence to quit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Between 664 and 1665 there were many visitations, resulting in heavy mortality, to which the general name of plague or pestilence has been given, although they were not always identical in form. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Nature set no store on human life—earthquake, tempest, pestilence, famine, swept human beings into the jaws of death by the thousand and tens of thousands. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z Such a visit would bring, even to the faithful, the desolation of a pestilence. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z There is death and pestilence in the house. Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z But the Lord stretched forth his hand and smote the enemy with a pestilence. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Hodges’ writings give us a minute account of the “doctor in the time of pestilence.” The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Then pestilence would attack the Indians, followed by suspicion and excitement, as a result of which all the gains would be lost. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Our wives, instead of baking bread, must be continually making poultices, to prevent our being considered as walking pestilences: the ark must be returned. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Oh, call them not in!" said Marie de Clairvaut, "for they will be frightened when they see the state of the house, and catch the pestilence and die! Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z Neglect of the worship of these heroes was held to be 375 responsible for pestilence, bad crops and other misfortunes, while, on the other hand, if duly honoured, their influence was equally beneficent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Its strength was like that of a dinosaur in modern fable; having no one nerve-centre, the world-society could not be destroyed by inroads of barbarians, or the ravages of famine, pestilence, and insurrection. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z It was during those years that a frightful pestilence swept the natives away like flies, and there was great fear among them that Wyeth’s fort might harbour the scourge. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z The last was chosen, and it is recorded that seventy thousand men died of the pestilence, as a punishment for the offence of David. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z This was the epoch of one of those great pestilences which ravaged Europe. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z I need only say, that I was avoided like a pestilence by every man in government. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z At length a citizen dreamt that the sickness would cease when the body of St. Sebastian should be brought into the city, and when this was done, the pestilence was stayed. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Owe no man anything; avoid it as you would avoid war, pestilence, and famine. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z That thousands of persons may have been cut off by plague, or pestilence, at times, and in different nations, is highly probable—but not by a judgment for other men’s sins. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Before him walked the pestilence, And burning coals went forth at his feet. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z A fearful pestilence, followed by many minor calamities, had fallen upon the land and spread misery and panic through many provinces. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel, and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Thither they sailed, and hoped to settle; but a terrible pestilence came upon them, and decimated their already sparse ranks. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z For those who would justify such cruelty and wholesale butchery, as they would justify famine and pestilence the effect of natural laws, I can have no very great respect. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z David said: “I have sinned,” and for this an all-merciful God brought a pestilence on the people, and murdered 70,000 Israelites, for an offence which their ruler had committed. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Volumes have been written giving perfectly authentic histories of wars, famines, and pestilences that followed the appearance of comets. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Human heads, with streaming hair and glaring eyeballs, shot through the air like meteors, shedding pestilence and death throughout the land. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z A thousand pestilences rage in the heart of the great steaming forests, that strike down their victims with promptitude, and which are merciless as they are swift. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z His crimes brought plague and pestilence on his subjects, and his reign is a continued succession of wars, revolts, and assassinations, plottings and counterplots. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Meanwhile Paris was suffering not only from the sword outside but also from a pestilence within which brought death to many noble men. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z When pestilence stalks abroad, it is said to be planetary influence or divine wrath! Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z And there, upon the white sand, writhing in torture, were the dark forms of those who had been stricken by the pestilence. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z There was a cholera-waltz, and a cholera-galopade, and one man, immensely tall, dressed as a personification of the Cholera itself, with skeleton armor, bloodshot eyes, and other horrible appurtenances of a walking pestilence. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z About the same period he sent to Kwang-tung for his whole family, giving as his reason, that a pestilence would shortly visit the earth, and carry off the unbelievers. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z From Montreal the great influx of emigrants were forwarded away, by the Emigrant Society, as fast as they arrived, and by them the pestilence was sown at each stopping-place. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.... The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Cæsar had thrashed one of his slaves for no greater crime than having contracted the pestilence that was ravaging his camp. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z Among the simplest and least literary people, events that greatly disturb the routine of life—wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes—seem to develop writers automatically. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Ireland is nigh unto death of a chronic disease of famine, pestilence, agitation, despair, and insurrection. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z CLASSIFICATION.—The plague, pest, pestilence, and their equivalents in various tongues, are terms that have been used from the earliest historical times to designate every epidemic disease attended by great mortality. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The black pestilence of the fourteenth century also caused the most terrific ravages in England. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He believed that that fire would stamp out the pestilence once and for all. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z New Orleans, that brave old bright-colored Latin city, struggling with the aftermath of war and pestilence, was just the place for a man of his exotic tastes. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z No great war, no famine, no pestilence in the world's history has been so merciless a scourge as civilization in Congoland. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z He becomes the leader of his people, and despite pestilence, famine, and their own untutored passions, he leads them on to victory and power. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Thales, called from Crete to Sparta, cured a disastrous pestilence by its means. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z North Africa was also afflicted, and the valley of the Nile, whence the pestilence had evidently now crossed to the basin of the Congo. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z There was, as he realized, not much that he could do for any of them, and after all, his most strenuous efforts were of very slight avail against the pestilence that swept those forests. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z It is counted as one of David's errors, and Jehovah strikes the people with pestilence. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z They had been weakened before the coming of the Is´ra-el-ites either by war or by pestilence. Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers 2012-03-01T03:00:24.783Z In regard to the influence of medicine on population, can it be expected, that when the most fatal pestilences do not thin it, the most erroneous medical practice can be more destructive? Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Friar Clyn, the Franciscan Annalist, wrote of it:—“That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants, villages and cities, and castles and towns, so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.” Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z He had seen death and pestilence, human nature stripped naked, and unmentionable cruelty; and the priest was quite aware that one cannot live with the outcast, in Africa, and remain unchanged. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Not only famine, but pestilence had tightened its grasp on the city; and from this the rich had as much to fear as the poor. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The disastrous invasion of the Turks, incessant civil wars and devastation by foreign armies and pestilence, caused a very heavy loss both of population and of prosperity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z So terrific were the ravages of this pestilence, that the Americans considered its invasion as one of the data of their melancholy chronicles. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Look at poverty, for instance—we class it with ills that cannot be helped, such as pestilence and shipwreck, but it is surely a result of the injustice of our social organisation. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z It is filled with rapine and murder, and pestilence stalks through it unchecked. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z He passed into Asia, and attacked some of the provinces of Lysimachus with varying success; but famine and pestilence destroyed the greater part of his army, and he solicited Seleucus for support and assistance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z I could tell many dreadful stories of pestilence and disaster in that region, but the most awful experience that I have ever had myself took place in Northern India, in Darjeeling. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The moment the practice of embalming the bodies of men and animals ceased in Egypt, pestilence appeared. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z For such gods as Nzambi Mpungu do not appear to human beings on earth at all, except in tempest and pestilence. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Where the air reeks with germs of pestilence and there are countless leagues of swamps breeding corruption, one can expect very little from a few scattered hospitals and an odd mile of drains. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z In great cities the drainage of unhealthy streets, of foul quarters, may remove the seeds of pestilence. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Secession they regarded as fraught with all the evils of Pandora’s box, and that war, famine, pestilence, and moral and physical desolation would follow in its train. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z In 1542, under Justinian, Egypt was avoided as the focus of pestilence. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Famine comes, and drought and pestilence; the elfin child dies, and all is ruin and disaster. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z It has suffered terribly from "plague, pestilence, and famine," and from the awful rapacity of governors. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z For my part, I see no goodness in the pestilence—no mercy in the bolt that leaps from the cloud and leaves the mark of death on the breast of a loving mother. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z It proves that God sends the earthquake, the cyclone, the pestilence, for the purpose of killing people. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z The inhabitants, thus shut up to suffer the pangs of starvation in addition to those of pestilence, made the best of their way out of their prison by every possible stratagem and bribery. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In the long night of savagery, in the midst of pestilence and famine, through the long and dreary winters, crouched in dens of darkness, the seeds of superstition were sown in the brain of man. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z They not only wished to protect themselves from disease and death, from pestilence and famine in this world but the souls of their children from eternal pain in the next. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Simply this: The earthquake, the lightning, the pestilence, are no respecters of persons. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z While the Old Testament threatens men, women and children with disease, famine, war, pestilence and death, there are no threatenings of punishment beyond this life. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Great as the mortality was during this affliction, the history of various other pestilences in foreign countries presents as melancholy a result. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He will find it impossible to account for pestilence and famine, for earthquake and storm, for slavery, for the triumph of the strong over the weak, for the countless victories of injustice. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Is it easy to account for famine, for pestilence and plague if there be above us all a Ruler infinitely good, powerful and wise? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z I answer, that your God sends his pestilence on the just and on the unjust—that his earthquakes devour and his cyclones rend and wreck the loving and the vicious, the honest and the criminal. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z The clergy have always had great faith in famine, in affliction, in pestilence. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Upon that part of the sea-coast which bordered upon the regions of Carthage and Utica, the number of those carried off by this pestilence is said to have been two hundred thousand.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z As long as Jehovah attended to their affairs they had nothing but civil war, plague, pestilence, and famine. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z There are intellectual diseases as well as physical—there are pestilences and plagues of the mind. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z They supposed that they could in this way avoid pestilence and famine, and postpone perhaps the day of death. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z David concluded that as God was so merciful as to give him a choice, he would be more merciful than man, and he chose the pestilence. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z He kept that he won in time of pestilence; For gold in phisike is a cordial, Therefore he loved gold speciall. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He ruled with whip and chain, with pestilence and fire. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z They have pretended to have influence with the gods—that their prayers gave rain, sunshine and harvest—that their curses brought pestilence and famine, and that their blessings filled the world with plenty. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Why should a being who destroys nations with pestilence and famine expect that his children will be loving and forgiving? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z He curses them with pestilence, with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with extreme burning, with sword, with blasting, with mildew. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z If a good and infinitely powerful God governs this world, how can we account for cyclones, earthquakes, pestilence and famine? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z He described a being of infinite goodness, who not only destroyed his children with pestilence and famine, but allowed them to destroy each other. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z The hoary fen, In putrid streams, emits the living cloud Of pestilence. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z He will find it impossible to account for pestilence and famine, for earthquake and storm, for slavery, and for the triumph of the strong over the weak. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Is it possible to see "design" in earth- quakes, in volcanoes, in pestilence, in famine, in ruthless and relentless war? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z I do not forget health and harvest, home and love—but what of pestilence and famine? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z If we should have a few earthquakes or a pestilence we might fall on our knees, shut our eyes and ask the forgiveness of God for ever having had a thought. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z The number of the victims within a few months is estimated at 30,000, and the pestilence is still spreading. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z He fought pestilence and dirt, introducing an excellent water supply, and promoting, so far as he knew how, decent and sanitary living. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z In olden times, when the heavens were visited by comets, war, pestilence and famine were predicted. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z It was also believed that if the sacrifices were not made, this God sent pestilence, famine, flood and earthquake. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z But as we have no pestilence or famine, and as the crust of the earth is reasonably quiet, we can afford to examine into the real character of our God. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z The prairie all around is a vast field of death, covered with unburied corpses, and spreading, for miles, pestilence and infection. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Yet the masses could bear hunger and face pestilence, or fly from their native land; but they would not eat the bread of apostacy. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 2012-02-04T03:00:16.007Z Jonah was much like the modern minister, who seems always to be personally aggrieved if the pestilence and famine prophesied by him do not come. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z If there were no famine, no pestilence, no cyclone, no earthquake, would we think that God is not good? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Of both storm and pestilence we shall find a most interesting record in the church of Ashwell, the next and last place which we should see in this corner of the county. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z There is scarcely a doubt that the pestilence will spread to the tribes in and beyond the Rocky Mountains, as well as to the Indians in the direction of Santa F� and Mexico. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z If it should again become needful to punish mankind with annihilation on account of their wickedness, the instrument was to be the lion, or the hyæna, or pestilence—not a flood. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z He was only happy when predicting war, pestilence and famine. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z He should know that the supernatural has not succored the oppressed, clothed the naked, fed the hungry, shielded the innocent, stayed the pestilence, or freed the slave. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The Delians, suffering a dire pestilence, consulted their oracles, and were ordered to double the volume of the altar to their tutelary god, Apollo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z It pleased God to preserve me and mine from this noisome pestilence. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z To all appearance this eclipse, taken in conjunction with the presence of pestilence and rebellion, was regarded as an evil omen. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z It was not that a pestilence brooded over the place, but something worse, much worse. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z If we thank God or Nature for the sunshine and rain, for health and happiness, whom shall we curse for famine and pestilence, for earthquake and cyclone—for disease and death? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z In 1813 it was ravaged by a famine and pestilence, which destroyed a great proportion of its inhabitants,—according to some accounts, nearly one-half. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Once, when a pestilence had broken out in Egypt, the cause of the visitation was generally ascribed to the anger of the gods. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Occasionally in times of pestilence, when they were specially needed, as happened at least once in Saint Clare's life, they took care of the ailing and lent their convent as a hospital. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Austin knew that the black man is frequently stricken by the pestilence, and as he stood there on the little strip of desolate beach he felt his courage melting away from him. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z How heartless the Chinese, who, before they save a drowning man, first higgle about the reward, and take pleasure in pestilence, famine, etc., because those who survive profit by them. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z I am now in the midst of the pestilence. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z And Hea spoke to him: Captain of the gods, instead of the storm, let lions and leopards increase, and diminish mankind; let famine and pestilence desolate the land and destroy mankind. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The greater part of these died through the fevers and subsequent pestilence. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Corn seldom grew where his foot had once been, and he left behind him famine, pestilence, poverty, and death. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z Of great political importance was the pestilence of Bagdad, which, in 1831, carried off 2/3 of the inhabitants. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z But Colonel Ward, who had not thought fit to flee the enemy,—it was not his habit to flee enemies,—was stricken with the pestilence, and died in New York City, August 16. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Famine and pestilence at home drove men to emigrate hopefully to the golden East. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Thy house shall be smitten with grievous plagues; blood, and pestilence, and great darkness; fire shall devour thy goods; and thou shalt be a prey to the locust and creeping thing. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z The bad food, the sudden transition from excess to want, and the impurity of the tainted air, produced34 a pestilence. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z It shall attract the pestilence that walks, even at noon-day, in darkness, to the very vitals of the drunkard, as carrion invites the far-sighted birds of prey. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z At present, we have a deeper interest in the pestilence of modern times, though by some accounted of great antiquity. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z But to man she is the cause of evil as well as of good; of shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, and untimely death, as well as of all beauty and delight. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It has been used as a cure for pestilence, and, according to 10th century Muslim trader Ibn Hawqal, as an aphrodisiac. Ambergris, Treasure of the Deep 2012-01-12T21:30:14Z No sooner did the gates of death close upon that sweet and genial spirit, than war, lust, strife and pestilence burst upon the very people he had so tenderly loved. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The thunder and lightning of the battlefield are bad enough, but the starvation and pestilence of a besieged city are infinitely worse. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z David pleading for his people, who were suffering from pestilence in consequence of his sin in numbering them, says, "But these sheep, what have they done?" "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z And as in time of pestilence all diseases turne to the plague; so in this generall tumult, all discontentments sorted to Rebellion. The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First 2012-01-08T03:00:21.027Z He remained there, through a raging pestilence on board, until prisoners were exchanged. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z So great was the pestilence and the famine within the walls that human tongue could not describe it, for great woe there was, and such scarcity and penury in Assisi as had never been known. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z A healthful village is often changed to a center of pestilence merely by such an influx of strangers, the ordinary means of removing offal, etc., being no longer adequate. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z In vain did the Athenians pray to all their false gods to stop it: such prayers of course could have no effect, and the pestilence went on killing the people. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z Let us hope so; for of all pestilences which have ever scourged humanity, and desolated empires, none approach in magnitude those of the plague. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z Age like a tenacious pestilence shovels them off a treadmill. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z We cannot forbear mentioning a phenomenon observed at the time of the first appearance of the pestilence by Major Dom Pedro de Azevedo, one of the most distinguished men in Funchal. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Ha, prickle-arm�d knight, How oft the world hath cursed thee, Thou pestilence of Earth, The beldame who hath nursed thee! The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Some time before this, there had been a plague or pestilence in Athens; that is, a bad illness, which spread from one person to another, until thousands of people died of it. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z As an epidemic disease, it no doubt spreads from India, that mother of pestilence, where, in the province of Kutch and Guzerat, it is found as an endemic of great malignancy. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z The hurricane is said to have carried the pestilence away with it. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The loss arising from the latter cause is estimated at �20,000, an immense sum at a time when pestilence and famine were raging so fiercely. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Grace’s evil eye ever brought her bad luck when she crossed her path, and she shunned her as the pestilence. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z The sheep were thus sacrificed to that one amongst the gods, who would be kind enough to put an end to the pestilence. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z The terrible events three months of famine had revealed, and all the agonies of pestilence and madness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z It kindled the fires of persecution in every age; and as it came down the centuries, like a blazing comet, it carried with it "pestilence and war." The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z No American is as helpless before pestilence or famine as a Russian peasant, or as afraid to go to a burning house until summoned by the police. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z The ratio of population, in consequence of the pestilence, had fallen considerably below the ratio of accumulated capital seeking to employ labour. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z A spiritual pestilence is passing over the earth, and the souls of millions are perishing through its foul agencies. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z And yet with this stern, comfortless conviction on their minds—with hunger, and famine, and pestilence on every side—they never uttered one word of complaint, not even a murmur of remonstrance. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The bracer, as it is generally understood, he was minded this morning to avoid as if it had been a pestilence. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The nineteenth century has made even the poorest people more secure than ever before from oppression and lawless violence, as well as from pestilence and famine. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z In the year 1349 there was a dreadful pestilence in England, which swept off large numbers of the people. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Here above in this lesson Jesus said, "Nation shall arise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and great earthquakes shall be everywhere, and pestilence, and hunger." The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Will you advance on them in their swarming retirements of profligacy and pestilence? The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z How the Britons, compelled by the great famine, drove the barbarians out of their territories; and soon after there ensued, along with abundance of corn, decay of morals, pestilence, and the downfall of the nation.Chap. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z Hel is identical with death, and in times of pestilence is supposed to ride about on a three-legged horse and strangle people. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z The constant use of salted meat, with little or no vegetable addition, doubtless contributed to the shortening of life, to say nothing of the large numbers constantly swept away by pestilence and famine. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z With pestilence and with hunger we are frequently afflicted, but we have not yet seen manifest signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z So completely had the pestilence done its terrible work of destruction and obliteration. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z How the East Saxons, during a pestilence, returned to idolatry, but were soon brought back from their error by the zeal of Bishop Jaruman. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z “I praise the true God, call the people, convene the clergy; I mourn for the dead, drive away pestilence, and grace festivals.” Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z These three subjects—the popular leader facing the pestilence unmoved, challenging the splendid instant of victory, heart-sick with the bitter cost of a hard-won field—gave to Gros his chief title to fame. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z And must we say that vice, war, pestilence and famine are desirable to prevent it? Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question 2011-12-03T03:00:10.910Z As my mother and three sisters had been buried together in New Orleans, we had taken it for granted that father had followed them to the grave, a victim of the same pestilence. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z They repeated litanies, and implored God to avert plague and pestilence, and to enable them in due season to reap the fruits of the earth. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z The Reformation, and a recurrent pestilence, "the sweating sickness," a kind of inflammatory rheumatism due apparently to the unwholesome situation of the university, resulted in a sharp falling off in the number of students. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Frank directed his waggon for the Limpopo River, and, still battling with the pestilence, kept up his shooting so long as he had strength. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z It will make him regard religious error as a pestilence which must be checked, whatever may be the cost. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Men, women, and children have gone down in flood and pestilence, free from any stain of wrong, which can not be said of the victims of the Black Hole. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z We go out into our city to serve others by making the city clean and decent, and we find that we have helped to save ourselves from a pestilence. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The pestilences were sent by the most merciful gods! Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z A very pathetic picture this, made even more pitiful by the classic quotation from the British traveler, Lambert, who visited New York in 1808 and described it as a place ravaged by pestilence. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z "The whole country might be devastated by a pestilence, and the few survivors might lapse into anything." White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z And as they traveled a pestilence broke out, a sickness which spread thru all the villages and delayed them. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z In a world wherein war, pestilence, and famine held sway, the man of family had but slight chance of surviving as a philosopher or prophet or saint. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, imports pestilence and embraces consumption. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z It was evident that the men of the sea avoided Sable Island as if it were a pestilence, and came there only when it no longer mattered to them whether they came there or not. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z He staggered as if hearing news of pestilence or dearth, Then gasped in low and anxious tones, "And what's the whole lot worth?" The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z Perhaps this was the inauguration of the pestilence. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z Therefore, a wise miner does not mine in such places, even if they are very productive, when he perceives unmistakable signs of pestilence. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z But asked what would persuade him to sign on, he responded: “Short of pestilence, famine and the end of the world?” Supercommittee members face rising pressure from all sides 2011-11-15T16:29:10Z As in previous instances of pestilence, there was no enforced isolation of the diseased, and no relief of the suffering poor. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Dr. Reid says, "If the employment of the lancet was abolished altogether, it would perhaps save annually a greater number of lives than pestilence ever destroyed." The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z It is a counterpart to the belief that events in the history of mankind, like war and pestilence, are foretold by heavenly signs such as fiery comets. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Here we have the historical fact—an outbreak of pestilence in the Abyssinian army—which gave rise to the legend related above. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Goslin died soon after the preliminaries of the peace had been agreed on, worn out by his exertions, or killed by a pestilence which raged in the city. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z At this period a frightful pestilence swept over Seville, reducing the population by thirty thousand, and causing great suffering. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The notion of that island with the raging pestilence probably only existed in the fertile brain of the man who had been sent to induce me to leave Hong Kong. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z Hell can fable no torment exceeding it, and all the other calamities of human life—wars, pestilence, fire—cannot compete with it. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z This news was worse to me than war, pestilence, or famine; but still I knowed I could not help myself. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. 2011-11-07T02:00:17.560Z It was a sad season of pestilence and anxiety. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z When the curates, who formed the only society of Haworth, found their way to the parsonage, she avoided them as though they had brought the pestilence in their train. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z A few years ago a pestilence killed great numbers of them, and since then they have dwindled away. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Perchance it hath come to thee that there is a sect known as the Nazarenes, followers of Jesus of Nazareth, which are spreading like a pestilence on the wind over the world. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z After the famine followed a terrible pestilence, which in a short time destroyed such multitudes of people, that the living were not sufficient to bury the dead. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z In 1546, a desolating pestilence swept over the land, destroying, according to some writers, eight hundred thousand Indians, and, according to others, five-sixths of the whole population. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z As word of a brutal pestilence raging across Europe reached London, its residents started digging. Plague genome: The Black Death decoded 2011-10-26T17:20:52.043Z A pestilence, however, which attacked his forces compelled him to land in Italy three days later, and on the 29th of the same month he was excommunicated by the new pope, Gregory IX. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Opposite it, he came upon another miserable cluster of hovels, the abode of pestilence, want and superstition, and there found that Saul had passed through the village at high noon that day. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z After one year more, there was a great pestilence among the birds, so that there was an intolerable stench by sea and land, arising from the carcasses of birds, both small and great. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z In 1576, Mexico was again visited by a frightful pestilence, which spread rapidly, and carried off large numbers of victims. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z They are neither starved nor killed off by the pestilence in the dungeons of Richmond and Charleston. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The terrible pestilence, known as the Black Death, swept over Europe in 1348. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z As Marsyas had been under the oppression of Saul of Tarsus, she had become as a pestilence! Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z The pestilence of irreligion which you detest, will insinuate itself imperceptibly with those manners, phrases, and principles which you admire and adopt. Considerations on Religion and Public Education 2011-10-19T02:00:19.747Z Henry of Hunstanton elected his successor, and proceeds to Avignon, but dies of the pestilence near that city before obtaining confirmation by the Pope. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z We have also another instance in the check of a devastating pestilence at New Orleans, as observed and mentioned by Dr. Cartwright. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Italy was to be ravaged with pestilence and famine; from all sides the barbarian hordes would sweep down upon her. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z This pestilence was one of the epoch-making events in the history of the empire, as great a landmark as the Black Death in the history of England. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z The tempest that clears away the pestilence destroys many innocent lives, but it is not the less wholesome on that account. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. The Civil War Centennial Handbook 2011-10-15T02:00:27.210Z |
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