| 单词 | pestilent |
| 例句 | Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Now be gone with you, pestilent little beggars! Go find pockets to pick somewhere else!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z More beautiful than the sight of a spring field after three years of living in that pestilent cesspit of a city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The air was steeped in evil during those muggy, pestilent days. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The gloomy soliloquy that follows, in which Hamlet calls the world a “foul and pestilent congregation of vapors,” seems more a youthful pose than an agonized cry. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z Trapped as we are in the sucking, pestilent swamp of political and economic woes, it is understandable that Americans would long for that elusive Simpler Time. Fall TV: Been there, seen that 2011-09-13T22:09:05Z Wright’s own righteous anger is aimed at the usual pestilent enemies of the natural world and ecological balance — parasitic insects or their human kin, “developers, apparatchiks, celebrities, lobbyists” — her zingers outdistancing predictable “green” rants. A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z By Galloway’s reckoning, the pestilent side effects of unbridled capitalism could be boiled down, in both cause and solution, to women’s willingness in the bedroom. Perspective | No, more sex is not the answer to the country’s problems 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It could be described as ‘a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.’ ArtsBeat: Elmore Leonard’s Life in The Times 2013-08-20T17:11:25Z A swath of the Santa Clarita Valley is under a first-of-its-kind quarantine after the invasive and pestilent tau fruit fly was found in the area, officials announced this week. No fly zone: Swath of Santa Clarita Valley under quarantine due to invasive tau fruit fly 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z But racist real estate rules and low pay sequestered Mexican workers and their families in cramped, often pestilent shacks, where deadly tuberculosis spread just like COVID-19 has today. L.A.’s love of sprawl made it America's most overcrowded place. Poor people pay a deadly price 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Trump is a proven misogynist, a racist and a ball of pestilent, narcissistic slime. Why I don't care about the "pee tape" — and you shouldn't either 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He gets as far as lamenting that the Earth itself “appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors” before being blown up by a rocket. Performing Hamlet in GTA Online is simply the best theater experience lockdown can offer 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Island living looks like a privilege when the world is pestilent. Cut Off From the World Again, Australia Now Finds Silver Linings 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z On the plus side, they are one of the world’s most proficient exterminators, yearly consuming millions of pestilent insects, grubs and worms. Letter of Recommendation: Starlings 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Acland saw polluted water as a potential contributor to pestilent air, not as a medium for the spread of an invisible agent of disease. The Topography of Disease 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Still, “The Good Mothers” is casting a wider net, indicting an entire pestilent culture. Review | Facing down the Mafia, and misogyny, in Southern Italy 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But even empty, the pestilent, waste-fouled enclosure where the Africans had spent the Atlantic crossing offered clear evidence that the Clotilda had been used in a capital offense — the crime of slave trading. Opinion | America’s Last Slave Ship, and Slavery’s Stain 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Some who were importuned or pawed, like Angelina Jolie, stalked away and told studio executives that she would never work with the pestilent mogul. Opinion | Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood’s Oldest Horror Story 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z The pestilent, overcrowded prisons of the Philippines and Indonesia will continue as prime recruiting grounds for extremism. Winning the war with IS in the Philippines, but losing the peace 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z In these pestilent, perilous times, when the very idea of distinction between truth and falsehood is under siege, it’s more critical than ever to keep a sharp lookout for destructive false analogies. Resurrecting another big lie: The myth of Social Security as “Ponzi scheme” 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z They’re no longer a kind of pestilent subspecies of Australian beach culture. Great to be a grom: young surfers have gone from punchbags to future world beaters | Jock Serong 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Imperial authorities proclaimed the leopards pestilent and awarded generously for their skins. Rare Persian Leopards Released Into Wild Near Olympic Town 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It's the sound of police helicopters on perpetual prowl, insistently searching South-Central Los Angeles for the violence and crime that hang over that part of the city like a debilitating, pestilent haze. A gritty 'Boyz N the Hood' ushers in a new phase of cinema 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z But the author of the just-published book “London Fog: The Biography” noted that this was not the pestilent miasma of yore. Your Monday Evening Briefing: Kansas City Royals, Egypt, Republican Party 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z When faced with concerns about productivity, any possible pestilent threat to the harvest needs to be eradicated, which often means pesticides. What's stopping us from eating insects? 2013-07-24T15:15:15.430Z Tacitus goes on to describe Christianity as “a pestilent superstition,” and its adherents as guilty of “hatred to the human race.” Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z And while ye go about to drive your neighbour out of his land, ye must needs first bring into your own land the most pestilent puddle of unthrifts that can be. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z "Then India is well rid of two pestilent scoundrels," said Dalrymple unconcernedly. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z It is a pestilent heresy to declare that a Christian ought to walk through life like a man with a hidden sickness. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z "They are represented to me as dangerous persons, pestilent refugees from England, and obnoxious alike to the Emperor, the Prince of Spain, and the Queen of England." The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z That pestilent Colet--I'm glad the rector acted on my hint. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z When his destiny was less severe than this, a life insufferably tedious was led by him in barracks pestilently unhealthy. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z It would not matter at all whether the Eagle dropped from a great or a moderate height, for in either case the skunk would receive its enemy with the usual pestilent discharge. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z You haven't yet freed yourself from the pestilent influence of Dickens, though you have much more sense, too, than nine women out of ten. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z There was no doubt about the reality of Drake's religion; and it was part of his simple belief that he was chosen of God to scourge a pestilent enemy of mankind. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z He thought Colet, whose doings had been reported to him, a troublesome, pestilent fellow, and he was not sorry that he had got his head broken. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Would it be wise as well as loyal to send this lover packing--to disclaim at once both him and his pestilent opinions? The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z It was a pity to have to annihilate so bold a varlet; and yet the independent ways of these same bold varlets are pestilent,--dangerous to the lords who are set over them. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z “Great ringing of bells in populous cities,” says Bacon, in his “Natural History,” “disperseth pestilent air, which may be from the concussion of the air, and not from the sound.” Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z The fact is that you've got some pestilent socialistic notion in your head that I'm very sorry to see there. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z The Morning Herald rejoiced that there were still places which would not put up with the incursions of the Manchester League, "the most knavish, pestilent body of men that ever plagued this or any country!" The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z It was reported to the mar�chal that his paid servant had harangued his cronies under the village tree, and had used pestilent expressions anent the local magnates. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The doom of the farmer must be something calculated to appal,--to spread terror broadcast, or his pestilent example might be followed by other swine. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z I gave a stab under the fifth rib to that pestilent fallacy,—"Our country, right or wrong,"—by tracing its original to a speech of Ensign Cilley at a dinner of the Bungtown Fencibles. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z On the former view hung the mass of putrescent and pestilent dogma that had fastened itself upon the sweet and simple teachings of Christ. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z The man is a low, pestilent fellow!" he continued severely, "and obnoxious to me and to all decent people. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z “Of those that eat my bread, is there none that will rid me of this pestilent journalist?” Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z How exasperatingly pestilent, therefore, was it now of Masago to give to the festivity a mournful turn of warning by slowly beating the bell as if for some popular calamity. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z These are the pestilent offspring of theology—your distracting chimeras, which "Turns them to a shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z The Londoners had then their reservoirs of filth, called laystalls, in various parts near the river; and the pestilent accumulations spread disease all over the city. 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 I made another journey among the gipsy tables and the pestilent bric-à-brac, and returning sat down, not on the sofa beside her, but in a chair a few feet away. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z Before long, she escorted her distant cousin and future husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a dashing and bold young Harvard student, on a tour of the pestilent tenements, which moved him. Exploring Your Inner Neophiliac (Part 1): Winifred Gallagher 2011-12-12T18:33:54Z The sultan resolved to make an end of this pestilent brood, but Hamet himself, warned at the eleventh hour, escaped the fate of his kinsmen. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z All which things are spiritually to be understood by you, that your souls may not wither away with so pestilent a famine, for want of the word of God. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z Do you feel, then, the pestilent mist Of hate and scorn closing around you? The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z These charities appeal to enlightened self-interest, as well as humanity, and, if we will not ask in kindness who is my neighbor, we shall ask in fear, either of pestilent disease or aggressive violence. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z I wish I could blot out the silk stockings, the rustling cassock, the simper, the pestilent love letters, the pretences, the artificialities of the man; they are oppressive; they rob his words of weight. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z The choleric governor swears that he will now hew in pieces the pestilent, ranting Quakers. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Romney's picture, with that frightful nightcap and eyes gleaming with madness, is a pestilent thing one would forget if one could. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z And thereafter, they published a declaration to the generation of antichrist, the pestilent prelates, and their shavelings within Scotland. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z And then the Spirit of Art read that such and such a picture represented a dreadful defeat, that a pestilent hospital, yonder one a scene of torture. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z The negotiations were concluded, and we were just marching out of that pestilent Zbaraj. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Here were these pestilent outsiders, the Ropers, assailing the reputation of the neighbourhood by complaining of being robbed. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Evil is by him regarded as a pestilent weed, which only exists, owing to some oversight in the making of the world, for which he is at a loss to account. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z I admit his children are fat and numerous, but it is because they live on the hill-side, where no pestilent breath from the city ever comes. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z To which she replied testily: "It is you who set the example of throwing money away on sweet things for those pestilent little village brats." A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z "That he is well nigh forced to do, because of his chains and the pestilent smell," said the cook. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z As is usual with these tit-bits of French talk, no name is given to the Hollander, and he may live, for aught we know, only in the pestilent brain of the easy paragraphist. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Wolsey, suspicious and troubled, came to warn the king of “a pestilent heretical libel being abroad.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Ornithogalum nutans is another of the bulbous plants that, though beautiful in flower, becomes so pestilent a weed that it is best excluded. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z It might be a rat, or some pestilent animal. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z She knew the pathology of the pestilent revenge-sore that blights the lives of men. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z "The pestilent heathen is dead, and half his boat's crew with him," answered the sheriff, with a grim smile. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z There were books on the king’s supremacy, for or against, which cost some of their writers their heads; and there were “injunctions against English books,” frequently renewed as “pestilent and infectious learnings.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Have I not had enough of the pestilent old hulk, think you? The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z And thus many have tried Muck, and, on trial, pronounced it a pestilent humbug. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z The pestilent summer atmosphere of cities hung over Vienna, saturated with decay, and reeking with filth. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z "See how the pestilent things have wounded me," added the hired man, exhibiting his thumb from which the blood was falling in heavy drops. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z The pestilent Scotchman, however, had an agreement for a lease of his farm for twenty-one years, drawn up by the Duke's own solicitor, and had expended several thousands of pounds in improvements and farm-stock. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The hot summer months of June and July had brought additional discomforts to the crews, and early in August a pestilent sickness spread from ship to ship. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z The fellows that teach them, too, are musty, snuff-taking, prosy old dogs, with heavy shoes and greasy cravats,—the very reverse of your race of dancing and music masters, who are a pestilent crew! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z They are, to my thinking, a pestilent race, either tyrannizing over the weakness, or fawning to the vices, of their employers. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Impatience is not my prevailing weakness; but these pestilent annotators have often been instrumental in convincing me that I am no stoic. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z The THING, this pestilent thing was bearded with the semblance of a tangled mass of coarse, grey iron wire. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z They could not bear a sharp rebuke, and, more than once, a happy and pointed retort rid her, for weeks, or even for ever, of the pestilent presence of one or other of them. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z I cannot possibly anticipate a return earlier than eight or ten years; and who is to count upon eight or ten years in that pestilent climate? Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z George Saintsbury in his scholarly and fascinating History of Criticism in Europe cannot forgive Aristotle for this "pestilent heresy," as he calls it. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Lemprière was the great magician who summoned up before my delighted eyes the denizens of a sphere where existence was unvexed by any pestilent arithmetics, and where the slavery of the inky desk was unknown. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z This "pestilent wilfulness" is really the key to the whole position. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z "We have so many Christian customs nowadays," said Jossel grimly; and he thought of the pestilent heretic in his own synagogue who advocated that ladies should be added to the choir. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z In the early Church the Fathers sometimes thought the prophecies fulfilled in the person of some especially pestilent heretic. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z And yet this pestilent Woman ceased not to attempt other Enterprises. The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 2011-01-05T03:00:50.050Z Without that philosophy, it is impossible for the world not to seem at times as it did to the desponding Danish prince, "a sterile promontory," and a "foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Will Shakespeare," he said, jumping back again, "get thee down to——Ah, I forgot that pestilent Shakespeare hath not been to the office for a whole week. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z He is more fierce than a wolf; more crafty than a fox; more vain than a peacock; more voracious than a swine; more pestilent than a viper; fiercer than a bear. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The pestilent insects were flitting about everywhere, and it was evident not only the trek oxen, but the milk cows and horses were being assailed by them. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z And so with reason we ask of you to be released from the discouragement which has fallen on the body of the Church by the pestilent exercise of tyrannical power.” The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII "The boy was in a most pestilent fright," said Lazaro, "and therefore somewhat more snowy than was natural; nevertheless, I have seen darker skins among the damsels of La Mancha." Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico I shall find the pestilent fellow," he said, "and I shall also penetrate into the mystery of that fair Lindabrides who dwells beneath his roof, and masquerades about the city at nights. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z And then had come that pestilent act of the legislature under which his parish had been divided. Rachel Ray Is she aught but a pestilent abstraction, like dust cast in our eyes to obscure the workings of an intelligent First Cause? The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer He also prays him that the Holy Catholic and Apostolic faith may be preserved by him from “the pestilent malice of the Greeks”. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII The story is true!" said Cortes with a frown, "and that pestilent young cub of heathenism has fled to give the traitor warning. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico You pestilent young jackanapes, do you suppose I haven't noticed your idleness? Sinister Street, vol. 1 The river stagnates, pestilent With carrion by the current sent This way and that—and yonder lies The moon, just like a woman dead, That they have smothered overhead, Deep in the skies. Poems of Emile Verhaeren No doubt he is one of these pestilent rebels—eh?” The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec "O, man," she cried, shaking her head at him, "for love of Heaven don't be so pestilent humble—I despise humility in horse or man!" Our Admirable Betty A Romance The river became so full of bodies that the air was made pestilent. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands To his disappointment, he discovered that the only reference in history to an Earl of Saxby made out that particular one to be a most pestilent Roundhead. Sinister Street, vol. 1 On that pestilent and wild Isthmus there had been very little chance to make up for the disadvantages of his youth. The Spanish Pioneers So they went inland, faring badly as they staggered up and down this pestilent country. How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest When they left me in my abasement, the air felt pestilent with their brutal laughter. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. There was no one to interfere, and nothing but an infinity of pestilent nullahs and loose stones to check. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel You idle young blackguards, you pestilent oafs, you fools of the first water, write them out. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Pizarro sent him on to Panama to work for help, and himself stayed to cheer his men in pestilent Chicamá. The Spanish Pioneers Thou hast rid the people of two pestilent witches, whose spells have robbed me of one of my bravest fighters. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story This pestilent savage was squatting on his haunches, holding forth volubly, emphasising his points with a flourish of his kerrie in the air, or bringing it down with a whack on the ground. A Veldt Vendetta Thou, Nangeza, hast a pestilent tongue and an evil heart; wherefore my servant Untúswa must seek a new wife, for thy place among us shall be empty. The White Shield But these pestilent, two-footed beasts—by net, trap, falling stake, pit, or noose—are unceasing in their secret malice, and there is no safety in the plain, bush, or rock-fastness against their wiles. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories "Ah! pestilent jades," I exclaimed in the bitterness of a boyish heart; "this then is the love of woman." International Short Stories American But the insult offered to our King and nation was so great that, at all hazards, this pestilent tribe must be stamped off the face of the earth. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story So Blagge, I say, thrust us both out, with many vile words, for a pair of pestilent, prating, pragmatical rascals.’ Rewards and Fairies Among the African corsairs was one by the name of Dragut, distinguished for his daring spirit, and the pestilent activity with which he pursued the commerce of the Spaniards. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 He has taken life—human life—and somehow the consideration weighs; in spite of the feeling of relief at having rid himself, and the world, of that most pestilent thing alive—a blackmailer. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion When not grappling his throat with her plaguing, pestilent fingers, it is only because she is recoiling to strike again. Seeds of Pine John Bright is a pestilent fellow, Always ready for making a fight, But of all his low bluster and bellow, We East India Directors make light. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) What kind of a pestilent horror did we live in? Do Unto Others The banks of this river had long been the refuge of a horde of pestilent marauders, who, swarming out of its mouth, spread over the Mediterranean, and fell heavily on the commerce of the Christians. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 A blackmailer is the most pestilent vermin on earth, and shooting’s too good for him. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion Thus virtue is often a valuable handmaid to success, and may be used for our purposes, when we want her assistance, and afterwards be whistled to the winds as a pestilent jade. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion This was followed by a cruel effort to extirpate what was now looked on as a pestilent foreign faith. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality If no great discoveries were made, if no nests of the pestilent creatures were unearthed, the justices of the peace were kept quite as busy with examinations as ever before. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 For let me tell you that this Vertua, a Neapolitan by birth, who has been fifteen years in Paris, is the meanest, dirtiest, most pestilent miser and usurer who can be found anywhere. Weird Tales, Vol. II. The Kit-Kats were originally Whig patriots, who, at the end of King William's reign, met in this out-of-the-way place to devise measures to secure the Protestant succession and keep out the pestilent Stuarts. Old and New London Volume I Contemporary papers were encouraged, or rebuked, as the case might require, with becoming zeal, and the "pestilent opposition sheets" were attacked with that felicitous but inexorable sarcasm which distinguishes editorial contests. History of Morgan's Cavalry If Aristophanes never succeeded in ruining a party, at least he succeeded in discrediting some pestilent opinions. Pot-Boilers Why did not Brooke leave this pestilent creature in her own abode, with the insolent, aristocratic friends who had done their best already to spoil his life! Brooke's Daughter A Novel Yes, the enemy--that pestilent noise was still in its lair watching his fragile kingdom, eyeing an opening, searching out his jugular. The Land of Look Behind It is in Venice, therefore, and in Venice only that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) I have little doubt that this scullery was a pestilent place. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Some had been ruthlessly hunted down by a skilled body of German assassins; others had died under the cruel attacks of the pestilent Frenchman. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 That is how the pestilent cackle of many people affects me when they rave about the sea. An Ocean Tramp If he has promised at all it is to that pestilent fellow at Headford. The Landleaguers Sure it is folly that thus ye should strive and contend about mortals Till there is tumult in heaven, nor the least satisfaction awaits us, Banqueting wholly forgot, and the pestilent rivalry upmost! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 "Silence, imp! or I 'll make thine ears, of which thou hast had such pestilent service, shorter by a span." Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 It is a pestilent doctrine and a denial of all virtue, to say that we have a right to do what we will with our own. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle To deal with 'that pestilent fellow Howe,' to use Macdonald's phrase, was a first charge upon the energies of the government. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion One of the pestilent “fire ants” of his country had managed to snuggle among the crevices of the lounge, and its nip was like that of a red hot pair of pincers. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America But the Roman Jews were merely pestilent heretics. Dreamers of the Ghetto I suppose her pestilent father thought it was the nearest way to a coronet. Is He Popenjoy? As for this common sword, it flattereth me with a golden scabbard; but it hath in it a pestilent edge, and whetteth itself in hope of a destruction. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. You see I am selfish enough to look for another visit, though this pestilent hole is no place for you to visit. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning The news brought him a more complex thrill than that shock of horror at the treacherous persistence of a pestilent heresy which it excited in the breast of his fellow-citizens. Dreamers of the Ghetto Out of my sight with you: I know what you are; you are one of these pestilent fellows called Higher Critics. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Before Felix, I was accused by Tertullus, speaking for the priesthood, as a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews and a leader of the sect of the Nazarenes. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight "Out upon you, pestilent fellow!" cried one of the servants. Robin Hood A few of these noisy brawlers like Henry and Jefferson and Adams, and those pestilent Puritans who have been ever stirring up strife, and a few foolish men easily turned with every wind that blows. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia It is more likely that the pestilent fever of the winter was a respiratory disease rather than a disorder resulting from "stinking beer." Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Nor were the ship's crew who assisted them much better; for 40 of them took a pestilent fever, and turned mad and leapt over board and perished.—Wodrow. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies The one-room log cabin is a pestilent menace to decent living. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Then Monceux told them, with bristling eyebrows, how he had been instructed by the Bishop of Hereford that the pestilent evil bands whose power had once been broken had re-formed in Sherwood. Robin Hood I hear there are other troubles abroad and that those pestilent Puritans, who were never able to live in peace for any length of time, have rebelled against the King. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia During this winter the colonists—in addition to suffering from want of food—had to endure a "pestilent fever" of epidemic proportions matched only by the seasoning of 1607. Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Tell me now, thou pestilent companion; when the priest layeth the bread and wine upon the altar, afore the consecration, what then is there?’ Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution “Well, you tub-thumper, you see that the gentlemen of England are more than a match for pestilent pennyweight rebels.” The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel In the effort to carry out these principles, Bentham at least brought innumerable questions to a sound test, and exploded many pestilent fallacies. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. It is not six weeks since I denounced him as a pestilent traitor because he demanded, for some reason, that escapes me, the blockade of a city called Belfast. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 Up came the Guard, every man of them Six Foot high, and for all they were Sauerkraut Soldiers, pestilent Veterans who knew what Fighting meant. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Taking me with you, and standing close by you, they counted me a very pestilent heretic, and treated me as such.” Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution The pestilent infidel at Bullhampton, as he called our friend, had not attempted to deny the visits to the young woman at Salisbury. The Vicar of Bullhampton Rather bring the more pestilent to submission by gentleness.... The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Then came November with its pestilent sirocco gales and its dampness, pierced and cut through now and then by the first northerly winds of winter. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 But it is, on the whole, a pestilent and dangerous heresy. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' Now, I grieve to say, it is my duty to turn from the description of so great a man to discuss these pestilent fellows here. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura "Disgrace," "insult," "ignorance," and "malice,"—these were the words with which the Marquis found himself pelted by this pestilent, abominable, and most improper clergyman. The Vicar of Bullhampton The beating of his heart seems to Quinton as thunder on the air, which is heavy and oppressive, a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours! When the Birds Begin to Sing The Pope insisted the Emperor had no right to interfere in the treatment of a pestilent heretic. John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr Miss Keller goes on in her article to tell the women of America that blindness is by no means the most terrible result of this pestilent sin. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade The book is a particular enlargement upon Mill's general view that it is a pestilent error to regard such marked distinctions of human character as sex or race as innate and in the main indelible. Studies in Literature and History The Vicar was a pestilent man to whom punishment was due, but the punishment should be made to attach itself to the man, rather than to the man's office. The Vicar of Bullhampton The father was the braver of the two, and stood in the middle of the floor, confronting the pestilent Yankee who had thus so unceremoniously invaded his house. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer And he called upon every loyal subject to aid in the extirpation of the pestilent heresy that threatened France with ruin. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan He resolved in his autocratic mind to sweep that pestilent city and all whom it contained from the face of the earth. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Mr. Trigger, from Percycross, was to be up with reference to the pestilent petition which had been presented against the return of Griffenbottom and himself. Ralph the Heir TO discover the pestilent Blackbeard in Carolina waters was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. Blackbeard: Buccaneer It is in Venice, therefore, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 It is impossible to keep beyond the reach of the sarcasms and sophisms, the insidious and pestilent teachings, of modern infidelity. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan "This man is a pestilent fellow," said the community. Drolls From Shadowland It is one of these traders, of whom we spoke but now; and as pestilent a knave and rogue as ever sold goods by short measure, and paid his purchases in light coin! The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 Didst ever hear so pestilent a knave?" said Victor, laughing; "one would suppose I had disparaged the accursed things! The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 He could not have had much difficulty in defending himself from the charge, about which he remarks he had been 'of late very pestilent reported.' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Do you call her better, the pestilent crather, when, from her first going to the grand place on the hill, never a word about them has been got from her at confession? Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse The statement that the anaconda kills its prey by its pestilent breath, is wholly fabulous. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America ‘He died by reason of a most pestilent fever,’ answered the wounded man. The Red Romance Book "Ay! but he did, most pestilently," interposed Catiline, almost fiercely; "but come, come, why don't they carry him away? we are losing all the morning." The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 And you'll permit me to say, sir," roared the General, whose eyes were protruding from his head, "that my plan will be carried out if every pestilent political in Granthistan is opposed to it. The Path to Honour His book was branded as 'pestilent,' placed in the Index, and stamped with the condemnation of the Church. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 On the twenty-eighth, some Catholic soldiers broke into his place of refuge, and finding a pestilent heretic lying ill, they threw him out of a window. The Story of Rouen I understand that you two young men formerly belonged to the squadron of that most pestilent heretic and pirate, Cavendish; is it not so? Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess It was their justification in their own eyes, that he was a "pestilent fellow," a "stirrer of seditions," and an abomination amid sacred institutions which God had given. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) But the truth is, it is not true magnitude, but a swelling out of the superabundance of pestilent humours. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning My pestilent perversity gave me a shock of pain for her. The King's Mirror He deplored the fact that the Jacobins were for replacing it by a newer and more pestilent religion, the cult of liberty, equality, the republic, the fatherland. The Gods are Athirst When ignorant negroes, instigated by pestilent emissaries, went beyond endurance, the whites killed them; and this was to be expected. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War I challenge you on earth to find So foul and pestilent a wind. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 The head spring of all envy, also issues out from pride, and this divides, in many streams and waters, all our courses and ways, with putrified and pestilent corruptions. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Her sire, who, upon his trackless wilds, could have outstripped the pestilent simoom; and with throat unslaked, and hunger unappeased, could thrice have seen the scorching sun go down, had not greater powers of endurance. Rookwood It makes a good landfall, and enables us to continue the rest of our run with confidence, and to dodge those pestilent cruisers of yours. The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles “Prithee man, get into the carriage out of this pestilent throng, that I may the better hear thee,” said the governor. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 I learned the Gospel of Christ Jesus, if that be what you mean by pestilent doctrine, from Master Trudgeon at the first. The King's Daughters Republicanism is one of those crude and pestilent innovations which I shall set my face against! The Island Home In all epidemics of the Middle Ages, such persons as were afflicted by pestilent diseases were declared contaminated by the devil, and carried to churches and chapels, a dozen at a time, securely bound together. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing But what was my consternation, when I beheld him advance deferentially to my pestilent visitor, and taking off his hat, respectfully offer to conduct him on board! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Of such work, God knows, was as much as she chose That dreary winter-tide, When Death hung o’er the damp and pestilent camp, And his scythe swung far and wide. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands They were treated as pestilent fanatics because they bravely held up the ideal of the Republic, and sought to make it real. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 “Ha! the ‘pestilent heretic’ helped thee to it, I reckon!” replied the guest laughing. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada A month later those pestilent "books from Geneva" turn up again. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 From its wallow in the marshes, where the pestilent grey fog hung round its dwelling, the monster, known to all men as the Grendel, came forth, to kill and to devour. A Book of Myths If I had only known that wine was taking advantage of her exceptional opportunities to betray my misplaced confidence in this popular but pestilent fashion, I would have made firewood of her long ago. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 I gave a stab under the fifth rib to that pestilent fallacy,—"Our country, right or wrong,"—by tracing its original to a speech of Ensign Cilley at a dinner of the Bungtown Fencibles.—H. The Biglow Papers "Wicked persons" had invented slanders against the queen's person, and had sown "pestilent heresies" in the realm. The Reign of Mary Tudor “There resides in the grieving A poison to kill; Beware to go near them, ’Tis pestilent still.” Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson And then to the attendant gendarmes, who, by now, numbered some twelve highly edified stalwarts, he shouted an order for the instant incarceration of these pestilent folk. The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III. Under various names they are scattering their pestilent doctrines through the country. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs "No, sir; as pestilent barren a journey as ever I trotted on, and the people seemingly on the hill, for their crops are unco late in the field." John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Now as ill-luck would have it the first barber I lighted upon was this pestilent fellow. Tales of the Caliph He moved me from the pestilent place where I had been thrown down helpless by the soldiers, and laid me in a more comfortable and cleaner part of the tent. In the Forbidden Land But I have seen as much of the surface of the country and as much of its people as most men, and I have found the pestilent print everywhere, and everywhere have found it influential. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile When the parson heard this, he was exceedingly mad, and in a great rage called them pestilent heretics, unfit to live in the commonwealth of Christians. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs His own landlord, the Duke of Somerset, was of this way of thinking, and after some remonstrances at second-hand which proved unavailing, his Grace resolved that this "pestilent Scotchman" must be got rid of. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion By that time, moreover, he was probably a good deal hampered by some of his colleagues and their pestilent pre-war pledges. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 “You know the pestilent fanatic well, I suppose?” Hunted and Harried Yellow Jack! hie thee back! hie thee back To thy pestilent swamp quickly hie thee; For we’ll drink sangaree, Whilst our hearts throb with glee, In thy death-doing might we defy thee, Yellow Jack!” Rattlin the Reefer In the seventeenth century, it was agreed that, next to the Münster Anabaptists, the Quakers were of all dissenting sects the most pestilent and blasphemous. Beginnings of the American People In vain the Lord Mayor and the Recorder Jefferies threatened as before; the Lord Mayor shouting out, “Gaoler, bring fetters, and shake this pestilent fellow to the ground!” A True Hero A Story of the Days of William Penn Whoever first made use of that pestilent phrase "business as usual," whether it was a Cabinet Minister, or a Fleet Street scribe, or some gag-merchant on the music-hall stage, had much to answer for. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 The surly Atlantic keeps watch over it and growls off the pestilent crowd of excursionists who bring uncleanness and greediness in their train, and are pursued by the land-sharks who prey upon such frivolous flying-fish. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Ecclesiastical tyranny has, for the most part, founded itself on the idea of Vicarianism, one of the most pestilent of the Romanist theories, and most plainly denounced in Scripture. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The air was pestilent; and the force was glad, indeed, to march on the next morning from the locality. On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War But how was this pestilent young cub of an Englishman to be got rid of? The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection “Ah, yes, they are a pestilent lot, those British—always thrusting their noses into other people’s business!” agreed my unabashed chum. The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba “I am quite a new recruit, and only joined just in time to witness the destruction of that pestilent British man-o’-war, the wreck of which you doubtless observed as you entered the river.” A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story And thus ended my long and persistent pursuit of one of the most pestilent and formidable gangs of pirates that had haunted the Atlantic and West Indian waters for many years. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Quadr.” is an innocuous and sweet animal; but, when pressed hard by dogs and men, it can eject such a most pestilent and fetid smell and excrement, that nothing can be more horrible. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 It will be interesting to observe the expression on the countenances of our Spanish friends when our engines—tampered with by those pestilent revolutionaries—break down!” The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection If it was not to be dogged by a trail of pestilent hatreds, the antagonisms evoked by its advance must be composed in every Indian village or tribe before it progressed farther. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Name of the home of a certain Englishman, called in the chronicle “the pestilent Morton,” who set up a May-pole in colonial Massachusetts. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 I think it is a pestilent practice, Sir! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 The pestilent fevers that rise out of the marshes of the Euphrates valley and the diseases bred by the humid heat of summer were alike traced to demons lurking in the soil. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Even the historic cannon now reposing in our historical rooms was used to break up 'pestilent abolition meetings' in our own midst. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 There are, of course, exceptions to all such widely founded laws; there are poisonous berries of scarlet, and pestilent skies that are fair. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers He had urged the Emperor and Electors, since this pestilent fellow would not return to God, to extirpate him and his heretical books. Henry VIII. For six days and nights the temple of devotion is filled with the pestilent vapours of the dead, and on the seventh they are absorbed by the living. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. It's a capital heap o' stone in it, that one must allow,—and your roads are pestilent bad. Stories of Comedy He speaks of it in connection with other throat manifestations under the heading of "crusty and pestilent ulcers of the tonsils." Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages Why do we make that a contest between the patricians and commons, which ought to be between the state and one pestilent citizen? The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 The storm cleared the air and dissipated many a pestilent vapour, but it left a trail of wreck and ruin over the land. Henry VIII. "And a pestilent knave," concluded a fiery-faced man whom Anthony did not know. By What Authority? Than whose doctrine, which is an art of deceiving, nothing can be more pestilent. Apologia pro Vita Sua Might was right in Milan as far as he was concerned, but he determined that he must make a stand against this pestilent fellow. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study Old Dr. Lyman Beecher, the foremost champion in his day of the old Orthodoxy, spent his life in combating what he deemed the pestilent Unitarian heresy. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Much of his early writing has encouraged among the modern youth that most pestilent of all popular tricks and fallacies; what is called the argument of progress. George Bernard Shaw The bankers, grateful to Charles for breaking up a pestilent nest of Barbary pirates, threw the receipts for the money they had loaned him into the fire, turning their gold into ashes in his behalf. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII Gerard says: "If you do but take a piece of the root, and hold it in your mouth, or chew the same between your teeth, it doth most certainly drive away pestilent aire." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure No sooner had she entered it than she was plunged headlong into those very same ‘pestilent amusements,’ the mere approach of which had made her flee to this supposed asylum. Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings By the upper classes he is abhorred as a specially obnoxious and pestilent person. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. They are not likely to infect you with their pestilent doctrines and principles; but they may, in an unguarded moment, make you do violence to your favorite maxim—Nil admirari. Sword and Gown A Novel Her books were denounced as pestilent, and the public advised against maintaining her acquaintance. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. In what precious age was maddening rivalry so universal, giggling laughter so pestilent an epidemic, triviality at such a premium and sublimity at such a discount? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life I had one fiery night when this same dragon “tic” held me for some hours with pestilent violence. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle There was no window in the building; a few small apertures near the roof made a pretence of giving air, and into this foul and pestilent hovel the prisoners were packed, screaming and fighting. The Four Feathers So things go, until some pestilent Yankees flood the markets with better articles at a lower price; and British consumers suddenly discover that they want something that the native manufacturer cannot make. Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures He had been regarded as a pestilent thorn in the sides of all ministers. Phineas Finn The Irish Member They invoke the General Assembly to exercise their constitutional powers, promptly and decisively, for the correction of a long-continued, and wide-spread, and pestilent social evil. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. We fly to the tropics where mankind is the victim of hot and pestilent winds; there we bring cooling breezes. Stories from Hans Andersen In that pestilent enclosure only the myriad vermin lived lives of comfort. The Four Feathers Nevertheless, I wish that I were with you in that house of yours, inaccessible to the pestilent air of the infamous city. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Carlos muttered something that I did not catch about "spies of that pestilent Irishman." Romance The wrongs of Napoleon, the cold cruelty of the English government, and the pestilent petty tyranny of Sir Hudson Lowe, were the perpetual themes of table-talk all over Europe. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte This pestilent Sir Humphrey was upsetting every tradition of the office. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood The first sip of love is pleasant; the second, perilous; the third, pestilent. Public Speaking Often more than one family lived in a single damp cellar, in whose pestilent atmosphere twelve to sixteen persons were crowded together. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 And it can't be denied that there's Tory members in the House as factious as any of them pestilent Radical chaps that get up strikes out of doors. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Some folk have been clearly rid of such pestilent fancies with very full contempt of them, making a cross upon their hearts and bidding the devil avaunt. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens My friend," said Mrs. Wesley coolly, "you have a pestilent habit of not listening. Hetty Wesley The brutalities of candour, the pestilent wit which blights whatever it touches, are not distinctively American. Americans and Others Father, you talk of pestilent heresies, but what know you of the doctrines taught within walls you never enter? The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot We who have lived in Italy all these years, know the full pestilent meaning of Austria everywhere. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II "You and your men are down there associatin' with the most pestilent set of robbers and land-pirates that ever disgraced a civilized country," announced the Colonel. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul I now felt the whole truth of Hamlet's description—the ways of the world "flat, stale, and unprofitable;" the face of nature gloomy; the sky a "congregation of pestilent vapours." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Did not Tully tell Brutus it was a pity to have spared Antony? and did he not speak the Philippics? and are not 'words things?' and such 'words' very pestilent 'things' too? Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals But, an thou wilt swear to do my bidding in the future, and avoid all pestilent controversy with those false scions of thy house, thy chastisement shall be light. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot I wished to have gone to Rome; but at present it is pestilent with English,—a parcel of staring boobies, who go about gaping and wishing to be at once cheap and magnificent. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals In a word, they would commence a series of measures for recovering the country from the possession of its pestilent enemy, and for restoring the rightful sovereign to the throne. King Alfred of England Makers of History Such tricks might have answered in the time of Ali Baba and the forty thieves; but we suspect that, even then, an "open sesame" would have been found for this pestilent defile. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 It is a good and good-humoured man, but pestilently prolix and paradoxical and personal. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals If there is one point above others in which "pestilent custom" should be ignored, it is this. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library However, I have grievances enough to occupy me that way too;—but for fear of adding to yours by this pestilent long diatribe, I postpone the reading of them, sine die. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals Should he accept it, or was it safer to ignore this pestilent disturber? The Clarion DAMER'S GOLD: A fortunate rescue from the torments of miserliness and pestilent heirs; the author's notes on the origin of the play are interesting. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays He brooked no discussion of his measures by any pestilent editor. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned He fell ill in that pestilent town, as all the world knows. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War The mark of its pestilent touch on the foliage, and its destructive effect on the tubers, are unfortunately too familiar in gardens and on farms. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition In that instrument we solemnly discarded the pestilent heresy of fancy politicians, that all men of all races were equal, and we have made African inequality, and subordination, the chief corner-stone of the Southern Republic.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Colonel Armstrong sent a message praying him to come and help him to attack a pestilent nest of savages which is the curse of his life. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America If this young man had not been one of the irreproachable Maynes Appleboro might have set him down as a pestilent and radical theorist and visionary. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man But the new government had hardly been inaugurated before it was disturbed by the pestilent pretension of State Rights, which, indeed, has never ceased to disturb it since. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 A Guy in a Blue Mask, who carried a placard bearing the name of the Ex-Premier, described the remarks of both his brother Guys as pestilent drivel. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892 Then began a long harangue from the great man, in which the wiles of the devil in the pestilent doctrines of the heretics, so-called Lollards, were forcibly and not illogically pointed out. The Secret Chamber at Chad Once old Shooba cur'd me of a pestilent Fever, with Simples, when I was a little Child, and our Leech had given me Over, nor did he Bleed me once. A Woman Named Smith Wherein, that is, in which pestilent speeches, necessity, or, the obligation of an accuser to support his charge, will nothing stick, &c. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Iyéyasu now put forth strenuous measures to root out utterly what he believed to be a pestilent breeder of sedition and war. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century "Out of my way, pestilent fool!" cried the hag. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The Assyrians have our wells, and half the tanks Are dry, and the pools shoal with baking mud: The water left to us is pestilent. Emblems Of Love Thou art a child of perdition—an impious and pestilent heretic! Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 But it has been done; and I hope that for a long time to come we shall hear no more in Germany of pacifism, internationalism, democracy, and similar pestilent doctrines.' Outspoken Essays They were denounced as heads of a formal conspiracy, a clandestine association, a midnight band, united in a horrible community of pestilent opinions and sombre interests. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) You shall not be troubled with these pestilent witches much longer. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest He denounces the whole Colony of Massachusetts—men of his own national stock—as the pestilent offspring of an "irreconcilable faction," which had originally left England deeply imbued with the doctrines of Republicanism. The Framework of Home Rule Yes; because they would not understand, and would breed all sorts of pestilent heresies. For the Faith "It is notoriously the most pestilent robber's nest between Mayence and Cologne." The Sword Maker Here is a pestilent fellow who is not content with disturbing the peace of the Union with his new fanaticism, but must needs presume to make the dear Union odious before the world as well. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Parliament of Ireland, more and more drenched, under their unceasing and pestilent activity, with fresh doses of corruption. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question It was, in truth, a pestilent anomaly, repugnant to the genius of the people; and the disposition and character of the present proprietaries did not tend to render it less vexatious. Montcalm and Wolfe You have been known to consort this long while with that pestilent heretic, Thomas Garret. For the Faith And wilt thou honour such a pestilent corse? The Seven Plays in English Verse This would have put an end to the pestilent growth of suspicion among Nationalists, and it would have enabled Redmond to launch at once his appeal for soldiers. John Redmond's Last Years An armed band of pestilent conspirators sought the nation's life. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Your sots are sheer abominations, But they who deserve castigations Much more than poor "drunks," Are those pestilent skunks Who poison the people's potations! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 Having questioned me closely, he let me go, only warning me to have no dealings in the future with so pestilent a fellow. For the Faith And he at hand, the husband she extols, Hounds on the cry, that prince of cowardice, From head to foot one mass of pestilent harm. The Seven Plays in English Verse As a prophet, he deliberately tried to restore, by a pestilent anachronism, in a Christian age and country, the ferocities attributed to ancient Israel. John Knox and the Reformation At length: "You had better get away from this pestilent hole," he panted out. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories Hence those who are put to the test by them are angry with me, and not with them, and say that "there is one Socrates, a most pestilent fellow, who corrupts the youth." Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates You knew that that pestilent man was being sought for, and had escaped out of our hands, and you assisted him to further flight, and told nothing of what had chanced. For the Faith On land the Sultan was sweeping all before him; at sea this pestilent Genoese was dragging into servitude all the best mariners who sailed beneath the banner of the Prophet. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean Eighty-two "pestilent heresies" were counted as having already sprung up in 1637; others say one hundred and six; others, two hundred and ten. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 The old trees decay'd, and in their room grew A stubborn, pestilent, poisonous crew. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 These Irishmen all the world over are pestilent fellows. Clementina Don Silverio stayed on in the sultry and pestilent steam which rose up from the floor. The Waters of Edera Life for the knights of this order was looked at literally with a single purpose—the advancement of Christianity and the downfall of that pestilent heresy which proclaimed that Mahomet was the prophet of God. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean One of the most pestilent of all social nuisances is the athlete who must be eternally performing "feats," and then talking about them. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The promotion of Sport is the purpose Plain of this pestilent Bill, which neutralises the victory Won, with much labour, by Me, my gift to the sons of the furrow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891 Not only is the wood cut for burning, but the cattle browse down the young growth; and a pestilent grub has of late attacked the older trees and destroyed them in great numbers. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Yes, you do obtain something; for from such words proceed absurd errors, and fatal and pestilent prejudices. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Hearing this, I addressed my ship's company, telling them I could not conceive what this pestilent fellow meant by making such an uproar. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Unhappily their feverish unrest is apt to communicate itself to men who are not naturally idlers, and thus their influence moves outwards like some vast hurtful wind blown from a pestilent region. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Within his sunshine basked and buzzed and stung; And, now the shadow comes, off, like a fly— A pestilent and stinking fly—he goes! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Not suspecting the true cause of these ailments, I attributed them to climate and the locality, and especially to the pestilent winds which had brought an epidemic ophthalmia among the natives. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands This goodly promontory, the earth—particularly that portion of it known as Quicksand—was to him no more than a pestilent congregation of vapours. Heart of the West [Annotated] Such letters always bring me to think of Harriet Martineau's pestilent plan of doing to destruction half of the intellectual life of the world, by suppressing every mental breath breathed through the post office. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) When I see the callous indifference with which illness, misfortune, and death are regarded by the dainty classes, I can scarcely wonder when irate philosophers denounce polite society as a pestilent and demoralizing nuisance. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Like Hamlet I had lost all my mirth—whatever I ever had—and the clouds seemed but a "pestilent congregation of vapors." The "Goldfish" But now, without further ceremony, he dribbled his liqueur into the pestilent visage; and it folded and molded itself, that instant, down to a glittering bowl-round knocker. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English What the pagan observer saw in the new religion was "a pestilent superstition," "hatred of the human race," "a malevolent superstition." Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Bigotry's waning fast, my boy, But Cant we sometimes hear, And Chester cant is pestilent cant, My Lord, that's pretty clear. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 But, strangely enough, it was observed that just in proportion as the Squire became more considerate, Jack became more arrogant, pestilent, and troublesome. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 Thus deliuered he his father from present death, and all other from so pestilent an opinion. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 Fish and reindeer milk were his food, a pestilent plague of flies his worst trouble. Hero Tales of the Far North Then he encountered the dwarf Alberich, and was warned that he would fall victim to the pestilent dragons, which had bred a number of young ones, destined, in time, to infest all Europe. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art I believe the people will continue to come into this crowded town, until it gets to be as pestilent as Rotterdam in the dog-days. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Silence your pestilent minstrels, and depart peaceably to your own homes. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance But a more refined operation of this pestilent indolence is its way of infusing into the mind the delusive belief that it can attain the objects of activity without its exercise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 It is extraordinary to watch the gradual emasculation of the monsters of Greek myth under the pestilent influence of the Apollo Belvedere. The Defendant Here was a means of at once swelling the man-power of his country and ridding himself of a pestilent ne'er-do-well. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 It was nothing but a mass of liquid flesh and pestilent pulp!… Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Never should Englishmen drink his health more earnestly and solemnly than to-day, when rebels have driven him from his capital, and pestilent traitors threatened him with armed force. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War And I think the same situation would be involved if the critic were concerned to point out that Pindar was scandalously immoral, pestilently cynical, or low and beastly in his views of life. All Things Considered "That pestilent English officer, if you please, M. le Juge," said the detective. The Rome Express So by the London train upon the morrow From holiday delights he gets release, Conspuing, more in anger than in sorrow, The pestilent amenities of Peace. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 By St. Dennis and my good sword, were I not hampered by this pestilent invasion of the Scots, I would desire no better pastime than to drive the ill-conditioned serfs howling from the walls. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 He says of Romulus, "that he chose a spot abounding in springs, healthy though in a pestilent region; for her hills are open to the breezes, yet give shade to the hollows below them." Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero I was under the impression you had imbibed some of those pestilent abolition sentiments coming into vogue. The Garies and Their Friends The two were classed together by English Conservatives, as "pestilent fellows" and "promoters of sedition." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 There was a pestilent heresy about, concerning the satisfaction to be derived from a good conscience,—as if anybody ever did anything which was not to be hated, loathed, despised, and condemned. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet. Heroes of the Telegraph But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. The Devil's Dictionary Where are we to be free from this pestilent race? The White Company The flies are pestilent—incredibly noisy, intrusive, and disgusting—and oh, such swarms! Letters from the Cape Saint Giles's church clock, striking eleven, hums through our hand from the dilapidated door of a dark outhouse as we open it, and are stricken back by the pestilent breath that issues from within. Reprinted Pieces What is the name of this pestilent race, and how many of them are there?' Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. The Devil's Dictionary This Fairfax was but a pestilent fellow, and, as he had to die, he might as well die thus as any other way. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan I left the Monastery but now, and, I warrant thee, they promise small welcome to those from the pestilent cities. Gathering of Brother Hilarius Richmond's army has been considered a factor in the germination of the seeds of pestilent disorder which broke out soon after in the camps of Litchfield, and on the banks of the Severn. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Algiers, one of the pestilent Barbary States, held a number of American captives which she refused to release except upon the payment of a large ransom. Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch House-dog, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. The Devil's Dictionary That pestilent Buckingham, to gratify his own wounded vanity, had by this time involved the country in war with France, as well as with Spain. A Child's History of England Some of the women fell on their knees and clamoured in half delirious prayer; the rest slunk dismayed to their pestilent homes. Gathering of Brother Hilarius It is sometimes cultivated, but has become a pestilent weed in fields from New York to Virginia. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W Thou hast called me pestilent, niddering, And weakling: yet I boast me better far Than thou in wit and speech, which things increase The strength of men. The Fall of Troy The question is, whether this intruding fellow, and a lot of cheating attorneys and pestilent dissenters, are to interfere with an arrangement which everyone knows is essentially just and serviceable to the church. The Warden So Blagge, I say, thrust us both out, with many vile words, for a pair of pestilent, prating, pragmatical rascals.' Rewards and Fairies Early and late the Prior toiled with the Brethren and his band of workers, nursing the sick, burying the dead, and destroying the pestilent dwellings. Gathering of Brother Hilarius Place a healthy man in a pestilent atmosphere, and he will inhale death. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Most cunning and most pestilent of men, Nor I, nor any other Argive, saw Thee toiling in that fray, when Trojans strove Fiercely to hale away Achilles slain. The Fall of Troy But they must do this, somehow or other, without letting the river be tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away. Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home After one day of rest, the prayers of my hostess began to lose their power of keeping me from the pestilent side of the Golden Horn. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East As represented by Lord Palmerston, Great Britain had got to be regarded as the most pestilent, intrusive, mischief-making of neighbours. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 It is a good and good-humoured man, but pestilently prolix and paradoxical and personal8. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Here he sets himself to comfort Pluto who lay betwixt us, panting miserably, with lolling tongue or snapping fiercely at these pestilent flies. Martin Conisby's Vengeance Land was falling in and they bought it up; domains belonging to the State were so unworked as to be falling into the condition of rank jungle and pestilent morass. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate No; let him remember that Maxwell's ways of looking at things were none the less pestilent because she put them into words. Sir George Tressady — Volume I A radical of Paine's school was considered by good society as a pestilent blackguard, unworthy of a gentleman's notice,—much as an Abolitionist is looked down upon nowadays by the American "Chivalry." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Did not Tully tell Brutus it was a pity to have spared Antony? and did he not speak the Philippics? and are not "words things?"2 and such "words" very pestilent "things" too? The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 If ever an author has been justified in giving the cut direct to a pestilent reviewer, this was the occasion. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller When yet if you consult historians, you'll find no princes more pestilent to the commonwealth than where the empire has fallen to some smatterer in philosophy or one given to letters. The Praise of Folly I dare say if I were in a miserable mood, having been deceived and disappointed like Hamlet, I should with him see there nothing but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. Wilfrid Cumbermede Will no man free me from this pestilent priest? Becket and other plays If the sky was not "a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours," it was nothing better than a canopy of gray and blue. The Flight of the Shadow In the first place, the pestilent fever, which he fought with giant doses of quinine, proved very intractable and held him in its grip for months. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller One lives always amidst a clamor of evil tongues, a pestilent trail of poisonous suspicions. The Mischief Maker When I was in the fifth form, I carried to my master the translation of a chorus in Prometheus, wherein was a pestilent expression about 'staining a voice,' which met with no quarter. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 Even when leaving the 'pestilent shore' she was 'haunted by the shadowy presence.' To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Do you know anything about this pestilent manuscript she raves about? Authors and Friends "A pestilent rascal!" was the testy rejoinder of the old Commodore, who, with his daughter Rose, had accompanied her Ladyship on the day in question to the House of Assembly. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada I see ye are none other than two pestilent atheistical fellows, who make sport of Cadis and magistrates and stand not in fear of reproach. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III When the pestilent slave heard this, he was enraged and his eyes reddened: and he came up to her and smote her with the sword on her neck and killed her. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II And in came the old woman, to whom said he, "Dost thou know me, O pestilent old woman?" The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I He who would study the artes humaniores must turn of necessity to two fountain heads; and he finds them in the trampled marketplaces of two noisy, turbulent, unreasonable, pestilent little democratic cities,—Athens and Florence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics The rear-guard, cut into from behind by the pestilent ghazees, found its route encumbered with heaps of abandoned baggage around which swarmed Afghan plunderers. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Amjed looked at him with angry eyes and said, 'Why hast thou tarried till now, O most pestilent of slaves?' The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III When he heard her words, he hardened his heart and said to her, "O pestilent baggage, wilt thou bandy words with me?" The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II He looked at me and replied, "O pestilent old man, I will sell her to a Jew or a Christian rather than to thee!" The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Ships of war would soon clear the coast of pestilent sea-robbers, and give free scope to trade and navigation. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 After some fighting and more marching he withdrew from that turbulent region altogether, abjuring its pestilent tribesmen and all their works. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Verily, 'this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire,' appears to him no better 'than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.' Shakspere and Montaigne You have been all your life under the dominion of a pestilent spirit of self-will. Ghosts When I opened the subject to her, she said to me, "An thou leave not this talk, pestilent hag that thou art, I will assuredly use thee as thou deserves!" The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Yet any other human beings, perhaps, would rather have faced the most outrageous storm, than continued to breathe the pestilent air of the steerage. Redburn. His First Voyage I blame thee not; The blame is with the immortals who have sent These pestilent Greeks against me. National Epics Never had I ventured into so pestilent and forbidding a place. The Mystery of Cloomber While the public was engaged in these and the like debates, the illness of Augustus waxed daily more grievous; and some strongly suspected the pestilent practices of his wife. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola There is a deal of pestilent talk which one sometimes hears, amongst young men especially, about 'following nature.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The pestilent lanes and alleys which, in their vocabulary, go by the names of Rotten-row, Gibraltar-place, and Booble-alley, are putrid with vice and crime; to which, perhaps, the round globe does not furnish a parallel. Redburn. His First Voyage The smoke which rose around us appeared to purify the pestilent air by which we were surrounded; and I attribute the preservation of my health, in a great degree, to the exercise of this habit. American Prisoners of the Revolution I think none can deny seeing in these late troubles the first fruits of those pestilent notions of equality, whereof we heard so much from certain quarters, during the late war of independence. The Duke of Stockbridge My Lord, if you take not some Course with this pestilent Fellow, to stop his Mouth, we shall not be able to do any thing to Night. The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead for Causing a Tumult at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey in London the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th of September 1670 Prophecy is vain, but it is entertaining, and I will prophesy that Gaul will move in our time, and that the movement will be directed against the pestilent humbug of the parliamentary system. On Something And in the eyes of the capitalists were the agitators pestilent fellows, and they would fain have crucified them, but durst not for fear of the people. Equality Yes, dear Gelid, so sure as you have been landed down on your posteriors now—ah—you shall be handed down to your posterity hereafter, by that pestilent little scamp Cringle. Tom Cringle's Log "Such a resolution was introduced by Thomas Gold of Pittsfield, a pestilent fellow, but we threw it out." The Duke of Stockbridge Never star on Apulia, the thirsty and arid, Exhaled a more baleful or pestilent dew, And the gift, which invincible Hercules carried, Burned not to his bones more remorselessly through. Horace The fourth is altogether deadly, pestilent, and full of ranke poison. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 At first they derided him, but, seeing his earnestness, grew angry, and denounced him as a pestilent fellow, an anarchist, an enemy of society, and drove him from them. Equality "There again now," said Aaron, with an irritable grin,—"why, Tom, your style is most pestilent—you lay here and you lay there—are you sure that you are not a hen, Tom?" Tom Cringle's Log Can it mean that by sacrificing our interest in Slavery we appease the spirit that controls that pressure, cause it to be withdrawn, and rid the Country of the pestilent agitation of the Slavery question? The Great Conspiracy, Volume 4 Look at the confusion your pestilent fowls are creating amongst my papers—papers that concern the safety of the republic! The Purple Land I say not, my son, that there are not abuses in the Church as well as elsewhere; but these pestilent doctrines lead men to disregard all authority, and to view their natural masters as oppressors. A March on London They are caused by violent heats, in combination with the excessive humidity of the air, bad nutriment, and, if we may believe the natives, the pestilent exhalations rising from the bare rocks of the Raudales. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 England, through her colonies, was at that time driving a lucrative trade with all of them; but the demon of change was abroad, blown thither by the pestilent breath of European liberalism. Tom Cringle's Log Henceforth he becomes a 'man-eater,' the most dreaded scourge and pestilent plague of the district. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter With this pestilent infection our people were much discouraged, and many of them died, the survivors being in great trouble and perplexity. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time We say that it is a pestilent perversion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 One grumbler in a family is as pestilent a thing as a diseased animal in a herd: if he be not shut up or killed, the herd is lost. Bits about Home Matters On the tallest spire of the place, which was now sparkling in the early sunbeams, the French flag, the pestilent tricolor, that waved sluggishly in the faint morning breeze. Tom Cringle's Log Then censure, good my lord, what bookmen are: If they be pestilent members in a state, He is unfit to sit at stern of state, That favours such as will o'erthrow his state. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 Their arms and legs also swelled, and many tumours broke out over their bodies, proceeding from a pestilent stinking humour, which threw them into a flux, of which thirty persons died. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time "I admonish you maids—I, his mother, who suckled the scamp ere he flew— An ye trust to the Boy flying naked, some pestilent 55 prank ye shall rue." The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" We were now getting near where the cholera made such havoc during its last visit,—a pestilent jungle, where disease is always prowling about, "seeking whom it can devour." Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine The Angelica sylvestris was popularly known as "Holy Ghost," from the angel-like properties therein having been considered good "against poisons, pestilent agues, or the pestilence." The Folk-lore of Plants Against this pestilent and abandoned race of men, most civilized countries have enacted penal laws. Thaumaturgia Come sit ye, lad, what time I tickle the noses of these pestilent fish. Beltane the Smith He is an ill favoured looking varlet; and is, I doubt not, a pestilent heretic. By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic The day was sunny, but no sunshine could ever reach that nook, nor any fresh breezes disturb the pestilent vapours that harboured there, festering in the sluggish gloom. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine I spoke of the pestilent fellow because you wanted a reason for my keeping you close at home. The Prince of India — Volume 02 You bad dog, why did you come, pestilent? Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Mayhap 'twas by reason that the fish, see you, the pestilent fish—Ha! Beltane the Smith Sheep are at present successful, but in some localities the spread of a pestilent “oat-burr” is depreciating the value of their wool. The Hawaiian Archipelago It was a close, pestilent, little cul de sac, shut in by a dead brick wall at the far end. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine Paul was counted a pestilent fellow, or a moover of sedition, and a ringleader of a sect, … and Christ himselfe, as well as Paul, was charged to bee a teacher of New Doctrine…. The Emancipation of Massachusetts To exchange the salubrious air of Brattleboro' for the pestilent atmosphere of this place with your system rendered sensitive by water-cure treatment would be extremely dangerous. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Mannikin?" roared Ulf, great hands opening and shutting, "unworthy to touch axe of thine, thou pestilent beast! Beltane the Smith Some will judge him to be a pestilent fellow; some will rate him as a reformer, a prophet, perhaps a martyr. A Handbook of Ethical Theory But this was another instance of how the unemployed operatives of Lancashire are being driven down from day to day deeper into the pestilent sinks of life in these hard times. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine What brought me was concern for you; I would not have you ruined by this same pestilent wealth, this temptation for plunderers; many is the man it has sunk in helpless misery. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Thirdly, that it is the nurse of abuse, infecting us with many pestilent desires: with a siren's sweetness, drawing the mind to the serpent's tail of sinful fancy. English literary criticism Why, the man, bating he is a pestilent Roundhead and Puritan," said Whitaker, "is no bad neighbour. Peveril of the Peak My lord, said Justice Chester, he is a pestilent fellow; there is not such a fellow in the country again. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works The accursed, pestilent old fanatic!" he repeated between his teeth; and then he said, after drawing a long breath: "they must go to Paris, and let Fouquier Tinville deal with them. La Vendée M. de Fontaine, Knight of the Order of the King, had a severe continued pestilent fever, accompanied with many inflammatory swellings in sundry parts of the body. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) All the air is filled with the pestilent effluvium of his nostrils. Dreams and Dream Stories Tough, pushing, loud was he, with power of hate To beat e'en King's; so pestilent his prate, That Barrus and Sisenna you would find Left in the running leagues and leagues behind. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry "Worthy Adams of such pestilent Eves," Tristan answered. If I Were King I count its people but a pestilent herd of daubers, rhymers, cutthroats, and courtesans. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel I know your affection for that pestilent Grecian. The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence There are now and then such angelic beings as Mr. Hanway and Mr. Howard; but our race in general is pestilently bad and malevolent. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 This provoked a stern and stony stare from the Turks, and an “ugh!” which said plainly enough, “Then you are a pestilent heretic.” Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 The world would be small, were its oceans all land, To harbour and feed such a pestilent band. Friends and Neighbors The pestilent atmosphere of this place seems to invigorate me. Born in Exile As you go down into the depth, a pestilent atmosphere and heavy as earth buries you. Under Fire: the story of a squad Her face gleamed out upon me in the pestilent gloom of the charnel-house; her eyes beckoned me—her young faithful eyes that were now, I felt sure, drowned in weeping for my supposed death. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten When I approached," writes Crockett, "I immediately recognized, in the captive, the pestilent little animal that had shammed sickness and escaped from me the day before. David Crockett His Life and Adventures He had a singular amiability of nature, and his boyish spirits were not yet subdued by the pestilent climate. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy But they could escape in time; they had a cosy little corner preserved for themselves, safe from these pestilent worries. Will Warburton The Britannia Loan, &c, &c, &c, had run its pestilent course; exciting avarice, perturbing quiet industry with the passion of the gamester, inflating vulgar ambition, now at length scattering wreck and ruin. The Whirlpool Crowds no longer collect together in great and pestilent cities for purposes of court intrigue, of commerce, and vicious gratifications. An Essay on the Principle of Population "Mr. Pipes," said the painter, with disordered accent, "methinks the doctor was in a pestilent hurry with that message of his." The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle By my troth, gentlemen, I have been a reading over Nick Matchivill; I find him good to be known, not to be followed: a pestilent humane fellow. The London Prodigal; "by William Shakespeare." as it was played by the King's Majesties servants. This is almost entirely due to that pestilent institution the "Coffee Circle," or Kaffee Klatsch, that standing feature of German provincial life. The Days Before Yesterday The scribblers are at the root of all the trouble with their pestilent doctrines; but it is too late now, the mischief is done. In the Reign of Terror |
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