| 单词 | pestilential |
| 例句 | As soon as he opened the door he felt the pestilential attack of the chamberpots, which were placed on the floor and all of which had been used several times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The gypsy wrapped him in the frightful climate of his look before he turned into a puddle of pestilential and smoking pitch over which the echo of his reply still floated: “Melquíades is dead.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He put it all to boil in a pot of castor oil until he got a thick and pestilential syrup which was more like common caramel than valuable gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "Have you been in this pestilential city long?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Their snorting of a many-headed dragon filled the glow of noon with a pestilential vapor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Isaac the Joiner saith that the Lord shall smite down whom He wishes with His pestilential scourge; that no such vain practice as introducing fevers shall help a man escape Jehovah’s wrath. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This strain traces its roots back to Thomas Jefferson, who described large cities as “pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.” Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking 2012-11-03T19:00:00Z Stationed in Liverpool in the 1850s, Hawthorne wrinkled his nose at the "smoky, noisy, dirty, pestilential" landscape to which he was chained, serving out a consular position. Movies: Italy Porn (For Ladies Only) 2010-06-05T01:57:00Z Later, she recounts the pestilential effects on troops through history of the filth fly but its redeeming quality, in larval maggot form, as a wound cleaner — devouring decaying flesh like a minesweeper clearing a minefield. Yes, there are maggots: Mary Roach's 'Grunt' delights in the physicalities of going to war 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Jefferson viewed “great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.” Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “He saw the potential of New York to be a great city even when it was little more than a pestilential muddle at the toe of Manhattan,” Baker writes. From safety pins to 3-D printers, inventions from a 'Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers' 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z He ratchets down his usual fretful-puppy winsomeness to create an eloquent yet non-judgmental vessel for the character’s hollow charm, careering ambition and pestilential value system. Review: Nightcrawler: Jake Gyllenhaal Wants to Take a Picture of You in Pain 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The Middle Ages and Renaissance produced a body of “pestilential music”:motets, madrigals and other compositions responding to the horrific plagues of those times. Pandemic pop: At home and around the world, black-humored new songs about coronavirus go viral 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Faced with a pestilential presidency, the Democrats are ready to rally to around the Delaware Democrat. Who won the Biden-Sanders debate? Our panelists weigh in 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z In those cases, it can be hard to identify the pestilential pooper: livestock, reptiles, rodents, and dogs can all spread Salmonella, along with other, less common animals. Machine learning could one day help figure out what gave you diarrhea 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Even the by-products made from it -- plastic for example -- are a pestilential presence. A Nearly Invisible Oil Spill Threatens Some of Asia’s Richest Fisheries 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z What a pestilential little picture is “Fist Fight.” ‘Fist Fight’ review: It’s hard to pick sides in this cynical comedy 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z An eyewitness in 1860 cast an eye on the city’s canals and glimpsed “dead cats and all kinds of putridity,” in a stagnant pool “reeking with pestilential odors.” Draining the Swamp 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Foetid and pestilential, this wasteland has long been a haven for the waifs of Kenya’s fifth city, the country’s highland capital and long-distance running heartland. Revealed: how raid by Kenyan police drove street children to their deaths 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This is Latin for “Perhaps a gusher of patriotic kitsch will stanch the leakage of our market share to pestilential craft breweries.” Patriotism in a beer can 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Surface temperatures are indeed increasing slightly: They’ve been going up, in fits and starts, for more than 150 years, or since a miserably cold and pestilential period known as the Little Ice Age. The Climate Snow Job 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Many, including scientists involved in the original eradication campaign, think there is no reason to retain such a pestilential pathogen, and that the job of eliminating it should be finished properly. Whoops! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z To make his case, he points to the unbalanced ecosystems of the eastern woodlands, where deer populations have reached pestilential proportions. Catfight: How mountain lions are struggling to survive 2014-03-09T21:00:00Z They have a powerful ally in the pestilential climate, which brings on those deadly fevers that kill more than perish in battle. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z On that account, I yearned for a friend, someone in whom I could confide; and it was not long before I found such a man on board that pestilential ship. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z Some did not come at all, and their bones found unmarked graves in the pestilential ditches of the Sacramento. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Others regard him as a wind-hero, who disperses the pestilential vapours of the fens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Of their own companions only forty were killed and about eighty wounded, of whom, however, the greater part died through the pestilential air of the place. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z In this clash of opinions one point seems to be universally admitted—a pestilential disease, disfiguring the race of man and making the body an object of loathsome deformity, spreading all over Egypt. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The beneficent sun, which kindles into life so many forms of loveliness and beauty, fails not to engender venom and death from the rank slime of pestilential swamp and marsh. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z When an epidemic has assumed a pestilential form the patches, which may in isolated cases make their appearance at any time in a hospital, are rarely absent in fatal cases. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z You, the man of conscience, shrink from doing so, but are willing to shut them up in the pestilential hole yonder, so that an agonising fever may kill them for you. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z The Scriptures state that this pestilential malady was produced by the ashes that Aaron and Moses scattered up towards heaven to be wafted over the country. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The towns are now also kept very clean and wholesome, particularly the capital, so that island seldom suffers from any pestilential diseases. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z A pestilential disease appeared in consequence of the numerous dead bodies left in the woods exposed to the wild beasts and the birds. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The latter held himself well, and did not in the least look like a man who had borne much responsibility in pestilential Africa. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Dr. Caius called it “a contagious, pestilential fever of one day, prevailing with a mighty slaughter, as tremendous as the plague of Athens.” Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z In vain he entreated his wife to remove from the pestilential sphere of action—she would not leave him. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z What pestilential vapor, fraught with death, Would rise, and overspread the lands beneath! The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z I pushed hard against the planks, and then felt something move, as if a door on its hinges; at the same time a rush of offensive pestilential air entered by the aperture. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z What swarms of vermin from the sultry south Like frogs surround thy pestilential mouth— Clad in the garb of sacred sanctity, What madness prompts thee to invent a lie? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z At present the stove fills the room with a nephitic and pestilential gas, so that I have to keep the window open. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z According to the law of the Jews, who appear to have been in constant dread of pestilential disease, the inhumation of the dead were most hasty. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Rome, the alleged "holy city," the centre of church power, was a pestilential swamp of vice and crime beyond the ability of words to describe. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z Things happened at which any pious soul would shudder, I, ashamed of myself, resolved to leave that pestilential place, never to return to it again. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z The change from the pestilential swamps, through which they had been so long floundering, was most grateful, but the animals suffered greatly, and before they reached their first camping-ground, two had given out. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z But as the Duke looked on me as nothing less than a pestilential traitor to the Nihilist cause, was it likely that he would consent to meet me? By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z It is somewhat singular, but suppuration of the brain is more offensive than the foulest ulcer, and it is with great difficulty that the pestilential effluvia can be tolerated. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Many cities also went to ruin, and the famine and pestilential state of the air destroyed thousands of men and cattle. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z The old town is the upper or northern part, and is inhabited by the poorer classes, its streets being badly paved, crooked, undrained, dirty and pestilential. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z When it is desired to suck out heavy or pestilential vapours, the blow-hole of the bellows is fitted all round the mouth of the conduit. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z It neutralizes pestilential effluvia, and, combined with capsicum, makes a good application for sore throat. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Loss of memory has been observed as a frequent occurrence after the prevalence of pestilential diseases. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The neighborhood of the rice fields is less pestilential in Lombardy and Piedmont than in South Carolina and Georgia, but still very insalubrious to both man and beast. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z I hear that you have quitted the pestilential air of Rome, and have gained a little health in the country. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z The bellows, by the first method, blows fresh air into the conduit through its nozzle, and by the second method blows out through the nozzle the heavy and pestilential vapours which have been collected. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z In Vera Cruz some silent but respectful tokens of veneration were bestowed upon the fathers, several of whom died in that pestilential city before the vessels were ready to transport them beyond the sea. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Dr. Caius calls it a pestilential fever of one day; and it prevailed, he says, with a mighty slaughter, and the description of it was as tremendous as that of the plague of Athens. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z A short distance from here hundreds of carcasses of seals were scattered on the beach, whence emanated pestilential odours. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z It is that pestilential spirit which has wrought evil among God's people, and caused them to become a byword to the nations of the earth, and an abomination to the Lord of Heaven! The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z I shouldn't be at all surprised if it's a pestilential mud-hole. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z These blankets and rags were vainly stretched over sticks, to form the semblance of a habitation, wherever the earth gave firm foothold, even along the borders of the pestilential marsh. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Are we ruled by certain laws that are only changed in the manifestations of Providence, by peculiar visitations, such as war, famine, and pestilential maladies? Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z This pestilential plague spot, into which it was hardly safe to venture, was done away with in the years 1890-95. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z One point urged in its favor was that "its unfortunate inmates were protected from those pestilential fevers rising from crowded and ill-ventilated rooms." The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Some time ago I was taken—I forget by whom—to a pestilential but rather amusing place in Fortieth Street. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Neither of the four great pestilential diseases appeared—cholera, yellow fever, plague, or remittent fever. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The ideas of corruption are closely connected with those of putrescency; and putrescency has ever been considered the chief source and focus of pestilential maladies. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The theatres over there are insupportable; the atmosphere’s pestilential. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z This renowned artist died of pestilential fever on the 11th of January 1494, and was buried in S. Maria Novella. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z When he smelt the horrible fever smell of the pestilential Lumi swamp, he hoped Miss Eva would not get fever in Mombasa. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z The deadly miasms of Central America, the pestilential atmospheres of Central Africa, and the frozen mists of either pole, are braved by the inquiring travellers of the civilized races, but not with impunity. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The convalescents there had a right to walk freely through the corridors to take exercise, and to breathe air less pestilential than that of our infirmary, which was close and saturated with deleterious emanations. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The pope too condemned his exposition as pestilential, and Isenbiehl “as a good Catholic” retracted. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z She called upon an all-seeing Providence to purge the district in general, and Arloes Road in particular, of its pestilential populace. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z The South African Dutch would not submit to being ruled any longer by the pestilential English. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z A sense of all-absorbing curiosity prevailed as we landed at the stone steps, overlooked by the yellow ochre walls of the arsenal, in the picturesque, though pestilential city. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z “If they remain here long the air will be full of pestilential vapours.” Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z A well-read fool is one of the most pestilential of blockheads. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z The desire to possess himself of Spinoza's works, still in the odour of pestilential heresy, haunted him like a passion. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z But when I visit this pestilential place its manners are. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Let your Grace take a walk down 'Royal Street,' which flanks your Palace grounds, and see whether houses so pestilential ever stood in a street of so dainty a name? Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z And Laskóy proceeded to conduct the imperial guest to the dungeons, even to the most noisome, regardless of the pestilential atmosphere which met the visitor. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z On another occasion we encamped in a delightful but pestilential spot, and for ten days afterward our men died at the rate of from two to six every twenty-four hours. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Comparatively small, shamefully overcrowded, close, ill-ventilated and pestilential, it insured nothing but the safe custody of the bodies of its miserable inmates. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z She was an only child, and lost both father and mother in one of those pestilential fevers which so frequently ravage the populous districts of Ireland. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Thick clouds of pestilential fever hung over the camp. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z Fetid and pestilential exhalations then rise, and produce malignant and typhoid fevers that almost always prove mortal. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z A swarm of these pestilential insects were buzzing around their heads, but, possibly owing to the protection afforded by the burnt cork, the mosquitoes did not press home the attack. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z After this, how can we be surprised if this flood of putrid emanations is transformed into a contagious typhic virus, whose subtle and pestilential effluvia are conveyed by the ox to considerable distances? On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z But thou, man! how often dost thou hang down over nature as a pestilential and mephitic vapor! The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z It was intimated to him that danger would arise from the pestilential condition of the house. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Then came the accompaniment of loose houses, and every other evil which seems to settle upon such places like a pestilential cloud. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z It's the bar that spoils the place, apart from the pestilential swamps. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Also there were cunningly devised screens of fine wire in all the windows, so that the marauding fly and the pestilential mosquito might not enter. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Leaving Bagamoyo, November 17, 1874, Stanley reached Lake Victoria Nyanza in March, 1875, his journey of seven hundred and twenty miles being marked by pestilential fevers, struggles through thorny jungles, and scant food and water. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Occasionally however we are amused by the efforts of the oligarchs to make their own school-books, or to root out of all educational text-books every reference to the pestilential heresy of freedom. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z All passion, all its crimson stream, from birth To murder, bloom and pestilential blight, All flows beneath the sanction of his light. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z It's good to sniff the open sea, after being cooped up in that pestilential river. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z She said that her life wasn't worth a farthing to her if the flies got into her home, and she would sooner jump in the river than submit to the pestilential infliction. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Our work in Cuba, Panama, and the Philippines has served to bring about hygienic conditions in supposedly pestilential regions which are vastly superior to those which obtain at home. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z The ship's lower decks were so pestilential that a sound man might hardly hope to go below without catching the disease. 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 If he is carried to a hospital, he is there surrounded by the pestilential breath of hundreds of his poor fellow-sufferers, where the best comforts that can be afforded are but scanty and dismal. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z "This pestilential hole, I hate it," said Christian, as they swept into the Lockjaw. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z I said that this was an age of grab—and, as far as I can see, it is a pestilential influence that must remain for years to come. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Having discussed the various theories formed to account for electricity, water-spouts, hurricanes, the rainbow, and volcanoes, he lastly considers the origin of pestilential and endemic disorders. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "We really ought to draw a cordon round the Austrian throne to protect it against the pestilential flood of democracy," said Sempaly very gravely. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z He could remember catching glimpses, in foreign cities, of innumerable pestilential places in which human beings were compelled to spend whole lifetimes, where none of these things was to be had. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z A campaign in the miasmatic and pestilential climate of the swamps was more likely to yield a luxuriant crop of cypresses. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z I am no longer surprised at those pestilential diseases that frequently depopulate Persepolis. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z At this peculiar epoch in the history of the country the political atmosphere of the South was literally pestilential. The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South 2011-03-17T02:00:12.580Z The sun of reason will of itself disperse all the mists of ignorance and the pestilential vapors of vice. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z I have been in the pestilential hovels of our great manufacturing cities, where life was corrupted in every possible mode, from the malaria of the sewer to the poison of the gin-bottle. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Along the Bay of Biscay in France, the sand dunes formerly drifted in ridges along the shore, damming up the streams and converting what was once a forest into a pestilential marsh. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The bloated form, the sunken eye, the painted cheek, shrink from that which would make their deformity more hideous, and hide themselves in places which their presence makes almost pestilential. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z In the meantime a "Holy Alliance" had been formed between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, for the purpose of repressing aspirations toward liberty in other lands, where this pestilential modern spirit was also rife. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z That is a happy phrase of Schalk's," said the King, making the conversation general with his amused air; "'the pestilential agrarian agitator.' Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z The air of these regions, freighted with this pestilential gas, often extends for one hundred miles inland. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z And this in the teeth of a pestilential epidemic, that annually robs it of its thousands of inhabitants. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Slaves! defend us from her touch And pestilential presence! Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z A northerner cannot visit this cemetery, and read the familiar names of the multitudes who have ended their lives in this pestilential climate, without experiencing emotions of the most affecting nature. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z "Confiscate everything," he cries, "then ship the whole crowd of that pestilential rabble, and don't let me hear another word about them." Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z This has a sterile soil, but it is surrounded by a belt of fertile coast land with a humid and pestilential climate. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z They revoked at Marburg, as you can see from the articles drawn up there, the things hitherto taught in their pestilential books concerning baptism, the use of the sacraments, and the preaching of the word. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z No fell ambition wastes me there, No, nor the south wind's leaden air, Nor Autumn's pestilential breath, With victims feeding hungry death. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z The spirit of Liberty, that pestilential emanation of a fallen humanity, everywhere at war with Authority, that sacred emanation of Divinity. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The autumn sun was blazing down upon the ancient city of Ravenna, and, over the flat pestilential country around it, an unwholesome malarious vapour hung thick and heavy. A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel 2011-01-22T03:00:18.233Z It is not only effective in quenching thirst, but it is used largely in the treatment of pestilential fevers caused by the malarial vapors arising from many sections of Africa. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Accompanied only by the natives, she travelled among cannibals, pushed her way through mangrove swamps and pestilential morasses. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Is it not true that under yon vast expanse of heaven there is nothing more corrupt, more pestilential, more hateful than the Roman Curia? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z These have infected you with a pestilential heresy. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The ceremony being now over, the priests and their attendants hastened back to the chapel to take shelter from the rage of the storm, as well as to escape from the pestilential stench. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Saint Pierre, a smoky pestilential charnel, was only alive now through the lamentations of those who had come down from the hills for their dead. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z My health requires change from the pestilential vapour of this city. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z One of these pestilential highwaymen stopped us and tried us on this very road, not five miles off. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z "Do you expect to deliver the Church of that pestilential Gerolstein?" The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The night was uncommonly dark, and a pestilential blast blew from the plain of Catoul, that would have deterred any other traveller, however urgent the call: but Carathis enjoyed most whatever filled others with dread. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Nor, finally, are they so mortal and pestilential, but God can heal them, as the prophet assures us: “The wicked shall not fall by his wickedness in the day that he turneth from it.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z As he was unable to pay this sum, he was at once committed to prison, where fever, caused by the pestilential atmosphere, carried him off on the 22nd of September 1662. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z As they report in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, the researchers found that several pestilential organisms were affected by the oil. Pesticides: Smoking them out 2010-11-18T11:27:00Z Indeed, the era when the word “swamp” was accompanied by the adjective “pestilential,” or the word “desert” by the word “barren,” is long past. A Soft Spot for Public Lands 2010-10-06T20:29:00Z The surrounding marshes infect the air with pestilential vapours, and when the river overflows its banks, the country all around becomes one immense sheet of water. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Fasts such as these, accompanied with true repentance, would prove an impregnable wall and fortification against all our enemies; a sovereign medicine in all pestilential diseases; and a safeguard about all our estates and possessions. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z These, however, he did not long enjoy, as he fell a victim to a pestilential disease which, commencing at Basil in the spring of 1564, afterwards broke out in his native city with increased violence. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Equally impossible was it for his wife and himself to remain another night in the pestilential atmosphere of Adderbury Cottage. The Princess Galva A Romance If this revenue is scattered by the hand of corruption among the public officers and magistrates and rulers in the community, will it not propagate vices more numerous, more malignant and pestilential among them? Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams They set sail from this pestilential island as soon as possible; but before they reached the Cape, three-and-twenty had died, including Green the astronomer, and the midshipman whose suggestion had saved the ship. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Men could be destroying their slums and pestilential habitations and rebuilding spacious and beautiful cities. The Salvaging Of Civilisation Hollow-eyed pale faces, sick and dying men, were to be seen in every row of huts; the vicinity of the camp was pestilential from the decaying bodies of dead animals. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. The miserable place was draughty, damp and pestilential, but it was the only lodging the poor boys could afford, and offered at least some protection from the merciless cold of winter. In Paths of Peril A Boy's Adventures in Nova Scotia But soon it was no longer possible even to bury them, and the dead bodies lay rotting in the sun; adding by their pestilential odors to the malignity of the disease. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. Had the air of the place been infected with some pestilential malady, their eagerness could scarce have been greater. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Though living in the same houses with the gay dance-saloons, they avoided them as they would pestilential places. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them The pestilential vapours themselves would appear to be nothing more than carbonic acid gas. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 The wound, on being probed, gave out a foul and pestilential discharge, and, when that was cleared away, out poured a stream of arterial blood. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. The destruction of his army seemed inevitable, if it was not soon removed from this pestilential atmosphere, and his indomitable pride was crushed at last. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. She grew sick and faint as the pestilential tale expanded, and horror was piled upon horror. Thirty To-morrow night it is proposed to invade the dormies while the whole house gorges below and listens to slush about their pestilential pots. Years of Plenty Such an atmosphere—vast, dark, pestilential, and capable in its condensation of producing the most intense chemical action—is a necessity of an earth condensing from a vaporous and incandescent state. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Alas! in its glorious inactivity it grew sickly and pestilential. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Each man required a pull at something invigorating, if only to neutralise the inhalation of so pestilential an atmosphere. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War At length the pestilential smell of thousands of dead bodies of men and animals drove the conquerors forward. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 You are at once the fer� natur� of humanity, and the pestilential atmosphere that poisons—that poisons—" "Oh! there you are 'pounded '! One Of Them He was confined in a pestilential dungeon, where, clothed in rags, and having nothing but a little straw for a bed, he languished during twenty-one months. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The saddest part of the story will be soonest forgotten—the frightful consumption of human life in those damp and pestilential jungles. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses There's the snake root, so much admired in England for a cordial, and for being a great antidote in all pestilential distempers. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts There were no more funerals, for the Pope forbade burials, whether in hallowed or in unhallowed ground: the air was filled with the pestilential stench from unburied corpses. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) And departing this life shortly after by a pestilential air 10 Nov. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West In many of the huts, or at least on the places where the huts had stood, heaps of these bodies had burnt together in one pestilential mass, and now emitted an unbearable stench. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Fever breeds so prodigally in that pestilential squalor that 40,000 people were estimated to have died of it in a single year. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Though the sky was freckled with stars, their light was dimmed by the dull atmosphere that prevailed, for the place was pestilential and deadly. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier From furrowed plains, sown thick with bursting shells— From mountain gorge, and toppling crags o'erhead— From wards of pestilential hospitals, And trenches of the dead. The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches Behold him here, for whom, so many days, Impervious clouds concealed thy sullen rays; For whom, as man no longer claimed thy care,765 Such numbers fell by pestilential air! The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition So dangerous is Heat in all Kinds of pestilential Distempers, and so diffusive of Contagion. A Discourse on the Plague One paper, in one short broadside, managed to call him an "obscene rogue," "profligate adventurer," "venomous reptile," "pestilential scoundrel," "polluted wretch," "habitual liar," and "veteran blackguard." The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 Some books are vacant, some are deadening, some are pestilential. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home Had you been able to infect all your comrades with your pestilential breath, and had a verdict in her favor been rendered, I should certainly have set it aside immediately. The Spiritualists and the Detectives Hardly was I installed when I noticed a pestilential smell that made me sick. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun All such matter cast into the street instantly disappears, while, if left exposed to decay in the hot sun, it might prove pestilential. The Pearl of India Added to this, the seeds of a pestilential disease had already been sown. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Again, remote position and pestilential climate have daunted curiosity and repelled research. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Oh, glorious King, may the Almighty deliver us from these pestilential Vagres! The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The corpses of the wretches who died of inanition strewed the fields, roads and highways; the decomposing bodies poisoned the air, engendered illnesses and even pestilential epidemics until then unknown; the population was decimated. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium If pestilence, then why are the skeletons not found in the great ossuaries and masses that mark the pestilential destruction of other Indian races? Through Our Unknown Southwest We were then far from land, and a pestilential disease was raging among us in all its terrific forms. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Upon the whole, sir, it is a pestilential, topsy-turvy, harum-scarum whirligig. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years She had dwelt here seven mortal years, in this gloomy wood, by these yellow waters, amidst these pestilential marshes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. The Asiatics, and other Nations, where pestilential Disorders are much more rife than with us, lay more Stress on the Juice of Lemons in these Fevers than on the most celebrated Alexipharmac.” An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany From here they were marched on to the first Siberian etap�, one of a long series of foul and pestilential prisons which were to be the only halting-places on their long and awful journey. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Resolved, That we will resist, even unto death, all the attempts of this Society to transport us to the pestilential shores of Liberia. Thoughts on African Colonization There, in their small and reeking cells, filled with damps and pestilential odors, they were confined day after day, year after year, condemned to perpetual inactivity and silence. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times And in the same way if Cavendish Square came sniffing up pestilential effluvia in Drury Lane, it was The Square's look out, not Typhus's. When Ghost Meets Ghost The word charlatan clung to him like a pestilential memory. The Moving Finger But in one year the "Little Minister" was dead of a pestilential fever. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria The only outlet available at the moment beyond the sea was French Guiana, and it was again to be utilized despite its pestilential climate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Neither air nor sunshine ever penetrated into these infamous alleys, from which escaped, at all seasons of the year, nauseating odors, and too often, also, pestilential miasmas. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 It was of comfortable dimensions, and without a stove; and here I betook myself with my children, escaping from the pestilential atmosphere of the other compartment, and performing our journey with ease enough. Records of Later Life We had arrived too late to procure cabin places, and were obliged to dine in an unsavoury den, reeking with pestilential odours. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia There was a pestilential air about, a miasmic, brooding fog thickened by innumerable clouds of mosquitoes. Letters from my Windmill "Burn up and blow out the confined air, that there shall be no pestilential foes to greet them on their own hearths." Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The time, after the rainy season, when water covers the pestilential swamps, and is to be found everywhere, was the most suitable for the purpose. In Desert and Wilderness Every year, when the heat of summer prevailed, the atmosphere was filled with putrid exhalations, which produced fevers and pestilential disorders among the inhabitants. The History of Sandford and Merton Let us heed Carlyle's stern monition:—"The Jew old-clothes having now grown fairly pestilential, a poisonous incumbrance in the path of of men, burn them up with revolutionary fire." Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" I became very angry when I was there, both with her ladyship and that pestilential old clergyman, and told them both pretty much what I thought. Marion Fay Here in the midst of a primeval forest, on the banks of a pestilential stream, without proper shelter or proper food, they remained for nearly three months. The History of the First West India Regiment No brother friar droned consolation to him or held the cross to his eyes—was he not a pestilential infidel, an outcast from both worlds? Dreamers of the Ghetto You try to make yourself useful as well as pestilential. Once to Every Man My Lady sees no Company, forbears Plays and Operas, and every Room of the House looks as if a pestilential Distemper was raging in the Family. The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money Along the drain from the Gas House a number of women on hands and knees were scrubbing clothes or washing dishes in a pestilential water that stained the stones on its edges black. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore She was always cheerful, and few people knew how much she was suffering from the effects of years of hard work and privation in a pestilential country. Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines The pestilential leaven of freedom had been at work while monarchies slept in security. A Short History of Spain Youths cannot get at the Aeneid, the spirit and majesty of it, I mean, owing to the pestilential numbers of grammatical reminiscences recalled by almost every line. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The religious orders are suppressed, impious books of every kind and pestilential publications are disseminated, wicked and pernicious societies are everywhere and under every form multiplied. Pius IX. And His Time And it would leave the cave well cleansed of pestilential insects. In the Morning of Time Everything was against Mary Seacole in this pestilential stable, but nevertheless she was the means of saving some lives. Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines But no pestilential Washington clique, none of the West-Pointers, back him, and the pets, the pretorians, may have refused to obey his orders. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 And how he, Dickie, had been very sick of the pestilential fever, but was now, thanks to the blessing and to the ministrations of good Dr. Carey, on the highroad to health. Harding's luck Rome was the lonely and ruined capital of a pestilential desert, and its population was composed of marauders in various degrees. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome The continuance of the session in London was at that time rendered impossible by the pestilential sickness already referred to, which every day increased in severity. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) In the meanwhile, my dear," said I, throwing down the crow-quill pen and pushing my drawing away, "if you remain in this pestilential condition of morbidness, you will die without the necessity of drowning yourself. The Belovéd Vagabond This social, putrefied evil, and the accumulated matter in the South, pestilentially and in various ways influenced the North, poisoning its normal healthy condition. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The air was stifling, the rooms pestilential, full of filth and fever. Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The floor of it was paved, and at the side of it flowed a pestilential stream, carrying along in its slow-moving water a quantity of miscellaneous filth: it was thick as soup with impurities. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas What foul coalition circumvented you, and whose pestilential breath is now whispering in your ear? Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors The pestilential marshes around Charleston yield a great abundance of rice. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The Southern pestilential influence would poison not only the North, but this whole hemisphere. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The chill winter and the hot summer found them crowded in their pestilential prisons. Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly A sense of relief on departing from pestilential Canton was inevitable, and there was little to attract us longer at Hong Kong, to which city we returned in the steamship Powan. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months I am well aware that in time of war, on the field of carnage, in camp, where the pestilential fever rages, or in the crowded prisons of the enemy, human life is but little valued. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier From year to year the pestilential atmosphere creeps forward, narrowing the circles within which it is possible to sustain human life. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject We hid from them a whole day among the rank weeds—up to our shoulders in the water of a pestilential fever-swamp; Claire, the baby, on her mother's back, and both the boys on mine. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Though the atmosphere be pestilential, it does not always infect trees and roots. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood In the Pontine marshes they find a favorite retreat, and in the pestilential Maremma scarcely any other animals are to be seen. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. Dr. Wells then forcibly illustrated the dangerous and pestilential results of our system of burying the dead, planting the germs of diseases in the ground to come forth again, and corrupting the water supply. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 These are at present pestilential swamps, and valueless, because there is abundance of other fertile soil in more favorable situations, which demand all and more than all the labor which our country can supply. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject In the scorching days of August the keepers deny admission to the place: there are flies that bear upon them the poison of the carrion, pestilential flies whose sting is deadly! Germinie Lacerteux The uncovering of hundreds of bodies by the recession of the waters has already filled the air with pestilential odors. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Hot as it was, I thought they were better off moving than in this pestilential spot, but it was impossible to get Ivan started. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia "From the charnel-house of the Vienna cabinet," he exclaimed, "a pestilential air breathes on us, which dulls our nerves and paralyses the flight of our spirit." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The moral atmosphere of these countries, compared with England, must be as a healthful breeze to a pestilential marsh. The Faith of Our Fathers The mass of them are sleek in body and pestilential in morals. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Social reformers near at hand are often intolerable bores and religious fanatics frequently a pestilential nuisance. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Can you, for a little selfish gain, persist in converting the bread of multitudes into pestilential fire? Select Temperance Tracts The eastern districts are flat and pestilential, where they sink down to the shores of the Caspian Sea; rugged and sterile where they adjoin the desert of Iran.” Ancient States and Empires Therefore they must be avoided as most pestilential teachers of licentious living who permit the perpetration of all crimes. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church And yet, as a matter of fact, they are the most pestilential in their morals of all the people of the land. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War The atmosphere becomes still more foul and pestilential, from the partially closed port-holes, and from the indifference of the nurses to the necessary cleanliness required. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery I wish you and I could go over there and clean up that pestilential Prussian herd! Where the Souls of Men are Calling Society can not become stagnant, otherwise it runs the risk of becoming like stagnant water, which generates pestilential miasma. The Woman and the Right to Vote By-and-by, a pestilential disease made its appearance in the camp of the pilgrims, and carried off thousands of victims, including two hundred and fifty knights. The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. We get rid of unhealthiness of a narrow cut with no current, which is the case with Suez Canal now, where the mud is pestilential from ships' refuse and no current. The Life of Gordon, Volume II I have soared through Differential, Deeply drunk of Finite Boole;3 Though its breath is pestilential, Reeking of the hateful School. The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. The same excuse would serve if he met any of those pestilential police prowling about the grounds. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Seized at length as with panic, he hurried on with every mark of agitation, until he had plunged into one of the most noisome and pestilential quarters, or rather suburbs of the town. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. The pestilential vapors from the surrounding marshes were rapidly putting all the crews in the sick bay, while the clouds of gnats and mosquitoes that hung about made Jack's life a wretched one. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 I put my trust in him when he says that the cause of epilepsy is the overflowing of this pestilential humour into the head. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura The ensuing weeks were worthily employed by the French army in clearing out the pestilential garrisons and making it possible for wholesome rule to succeed to the seven weary years of strife. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II After utilizing our halt by filling our gourds and killing an armadillo, we hurried to get away from a spot where the air seemed poisoned with pestilential miasma. Adventures of a Young Naturalist They garner up happiness and they store the harvest of pain; they make the "majestical roof fretted with golden fire" and the "pestilential cloud." The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 And the lamp flickered somewhat in the pestilential damp. John the Baptist This nobleman died of a pestilential disorder at the castle, in the year 1361, greatly lamented by the inhabitants of Leicester. A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers One after another of the inhabitants fell before its pestilential breath, until at length physicians and the voice of daily experience pronounced it infectious. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. She was not expected, and some folks were hoping that she had gone to the bottom of the Atlantic, or was lying rotting in some pestilential mouth of the Orinoco. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea He saw bridges, piles of buildings, dark flowing canals, a strange medley of streets, some broad and beautiful, others dark, narrow and pestilential, reeking with the fumes of dram-shops. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath How to escape from our perilous position on the banks of a pestilential stream, haunted by catawampodes and other fell birds of prey, now became a subject for consideration. He He resembles the stagnant pool, whose impure waters, filled with the loathsome creatures, and all manner of filth, saturate the atmosphere with pestilential vapors, and spread around it disease and death. Anecdotes for Boys Close to the house of our inhuman master was the fetish grove, a horrible place, surrounded by rank grass, dirt, and reeking with odours pestilential. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason Captain Drake dropped anchor well away from the shore and its pestilential night mists, and made all snug against the morning. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea After death, they inhabit the most pestilential marsh of the kingdom of darkness, and their souls are scourged without mercy. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Quite unconsciously she came to judge the world to which she had no real access according to these books which offered her as truth the issues of sick and pestilential minds. The Goose Man Honey is taken that is in close proximity to dead bodies, corrupting by thousands, creating a pestilential vapor, of which it has probably absorbed a portion. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained The sky is lurid, pestilential; it touches with plague what it illuminates. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Thence, bursting like a mighty flame, A pestilential poison came, Consuming, as it onward ran, The home of God, and fiend, and man. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Meanwhile as Antony's camp had been placed in a pestilential spot for midsummer heat, he suffered great losses from disease. A History of Sea Power Not less than 5,000 men were at that moment dying by slow torture in the foul prisons or pestilential floating dungeons of New York. The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 But if the bodies of mother and child lay dead, they would no longer be conscious of the pestilential air. Spontaneous Activity in Education With the greatest tenderness and care did those gallant fellows carry their helpless burdens, notwithstanding the mass of filth with which they were covered, in consequence of their long imprisonment in the pestilential hold. The Three Commanders But its effects still lingered in them, and it was all about them with its pestilential miasma. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Various are their haunts: the tops of mountains, the pestilential marshes by the sea, but especially the desert. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria The 16th New Hampshire, however, had suffered so severely during its six week's confinement in the heart of the pestilential swamp that it was reduced to a mere skeleton, without strength either numerical or physical. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps But one hundred thousand people perished during the first year, in consequence of the severity of their labors, and the pestilential air of the place. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges There was a pipe in it but no water, and I say without fear of challenge that it was pestilentially dirty. Third class in Indian railways But this loving Christ goes down, down, down into the thickest, most pestilential atmosphere, reeking with sin and corruption, and stretches out a rescuing hand to the most abject and undermost of all the victims. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The pulp of the fruit is slightly acid, and the juice expressed from it is valued as a specific in putrid and pestilential fevers. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture General Johnston posted his army between Richmond and the Chickahominy river, the 47th regiment being on the left, not far from Meadow bridge, and in the pestilential low-grounds of that sluggish stream. Reminiscences of a Rebel The chief characteristic of Fuzby was a pestilential spirit of gossip. St. Winifred's, or The World of School He introduced them into a shed, and Durtal recoiled, deafened by horrible cries, suffocated by the pestilential heat of the liquid manure. En Route Bonny stands in a region of swamps, and the climate exhales at all times of the year pestilential vapors which are not at all suited to the white man. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent And Naples harbour is admittedly one of the most pestilential holes on the face of the earth. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance A long sickness will weary friends at last, but a pestilential sickness averts them from the beginning. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel The boast of Seal Bay was sufficiently alluring to those who had not yet set foot on its pestilential shores. The Heart of Unaga Tenderly and carefully did these strong, rough fellows bear their helpless burdens, notwithstanding the filth which had accumulated on them during their long imprisonment in the pestilential hold. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 The pestilential influence of this horrid place empoisons the pure air of Vaucluse, and will eventually compel me to quit my retirement. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Every year sees the President driven from his Mansion by pestilential vapors, and the sanitary condition of the city is extraordinarily bad. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War He was sent in chains to a pestilential part of the island, with the intention that toil and disease should end his life. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Before the month was over, the other Europeans had died from the pestilential climate of Nigeria, and Clapperton, alone with his faithful servant, Richard Lander, pushed on. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Wounded and taken prisoner in August, 1914, he suffered severely at the hands of the Germans, and his account of the camp at Wittenburg does nothing to decrease one's loathing for that pestilential spot. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 Much has been said of the “pestilential climate of Africa,” and the certain doom of those who venture within the spell of its miasma. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver So we docked at Cologne before six o'clock in the morning on a Sunday, the weather being by now pestilential. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Hundreds have been slain; thousands have been sold into slavery; many more have been banished to pestilential districts, where disease has laid them low. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar She continues her quest, and from the pestilential plains of Egypt she takes back the last sigh of the maiden who sacrificed herself to her love for the youth who stole out to die alone. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Of course, they assume a very pestilential character. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure The foreigner is already on his way to sully with his hot and pestilential breath the purity of thy beloved. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy No, not all the gold in the mines would get me to that pestilential plague spot. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 He also sent officers to announce to those who had been banished to the pestilential districts that the day of deliverance had come. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Then, leaving him still chained up, we went into the garden and nearly fainted from the pestilential odours borne on the breeze, which was again south-east. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 From this last case, as well as from many others similar, but too numerous here to recapitulate, it appears that the human constitution requires a certain miasma, to prepare it to receive the pestilential infection. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Here is shewn a ghastly pool, a breathing-hole of the grim lord of hell, and a vast chasm breaking into Acheron yawns with pestilential throat. The Aeneid of Virgil I am told that this is the survival of an old custom of placing hyssop before the Bench by way of febrifuge to protect him from pestilential vapours from the dock. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 Conspicuous among them was the ill-omened "fever tree," with its gaunt, bare, ungainly arms and yellow bark—the tree whose presence indicates a pestilential air. Impressions of South Africa Out from the inscrutable white forest murder breathed like a pestilential air. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life In general, outside of a few cities, the island is healthful, notwithstanding the contaminating effect of the pestilential cities. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 It was like a pestilential rock dropped on earth. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. They were scandalized by a report, which spread with pestilential ease, that I had known my wife but three short weeks when I asked her to walk the long walk with me. St. Cuthbert's They delight in those steaming marshes which are pestilential to other beings, and wallow in stagnant water. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals But they were filled by the pestilential dead, and I passed by without exploring them. The Scarlet Plague “Go down into the slums of our great cities, or to the pestilential East, and there observe the survival of the fittest, undisturbed by human knowledge or human pity,” recommended the Professor. The Daughters of Danaus Passing through several dirty streets the slave led the slaver to a better sort of house in a more salubrious or, rather, less pestilential, part of the town. Black Ivory Good pure air, the pestilential atmosphere of the English cellar dwellings. Selected Essays Though the sea-breeze was very reviving after the hot pestilential air of New Orleans, yet as it came directly in our teeth, our captain wished it from some other quarter. Peter the Whaler I found myself once more exposed to the pestilential air of an African river. The African Trader The Adventures of Harry Bayford The whole force now pushed forward, and without further opposition crossed the pestilential swamp which surrounds Coomassie, and entered the town. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign Pity that he could not forge a chain which would for ever restrain the murderous hands of the Arabs and half-caste Portuguese, who, for ages, have blighted his land with their pestilential presence! Black Ivory The house which had been provided for him was close to a morass, the pestilential exhalations of which were increased by the sewers of the houses all opening into the street. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley Yet pestilential as is the clime, the scenery is very beautiful. Peter the Whaler The tempests which raise the fogs from the ocean have no influence here, and they are strangers likewise to that hot moisture which produces the pestilential fevers in England and America. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 And yet, dear Julia, ladies as tenderly brought up as yourself have gone forth cheerfully to little short of certain death from pestilential airs, and have neither shrunk nor murmured when the call came. Amos Huntingdon It’s a precious sight better than this pestilential West Coast at all events, say what you will. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Withdraw these bars and you let loose upon society a pestilential crew of murderers and marauders. Seen and Unseen The man led the way into a small room, foul and pestilential in its closeness. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch He seemed to have a very rough time of it, living all alone in that pestilential climate. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 When I get washed up—" "That's an order," snapped the officer, "do you think, on this pestilential unlucky planet, we can afford any more bad luck? The Colors of Space And all th’ uncleanness which does drown In pestilential Clouds a pop’lous Town? Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees Neither shall the devils send forth a better smell; for, although327 they are spirits, yet those fiery bodies unto which they are fastened and confined shall be of a more pestilential flavour.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Even as it struggled in through the crevices and cracks of that old bag, it was like a breath of Paradise, after the vile, pestilential atmosphere of that room! The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch The noisome exhalations of carcasses, and the very winds, which should have purified the air, loaded with infection and pestilential vapors from the Nile, increased the evil. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March There's a little lake that lies In a valley, where the skies Kiss the mountains, as they rise, On the crown; And the heaven-born élite Are accustomed to retreat From the pestilential heat Lower down. Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses The water of the husks is sovereign against all pestilential infections, and that of the leaves to mundifie and heal inveterate ulcers. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees Into its profound and pestilential depths, indeed, she can see. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 They swarmed everywhere, and the discovery of a dead camel an inch or two under the sand in "A" Company's bivouac area rejoiced their pestilential hearts. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 If detracters were thoroughly persuaded that by their evil speeches they rendered themselves more odious than those of whom they speak ill, they would be effectually cured of this pestilential habit. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March As it was, he walked with no less equanimity through the pestilential mazes of the city and bazaar. The Great Amulet After a ride of thirty miles, they were unexpectedly exposed to a pestilential atmosphere at Khoy, where they spent the night. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. At last, after three hundred yards of silent scurry through this pestilential tract, they struck hard ground, and went at full speed up the hill-side for open country and purer air. Jack Haydon's Quest And so pestilential was their touch considered that it was a crime for them to walk the common road barefooted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The district is pestilential to a degree, and, in no sense of the word, a white man's country. With the British Army in The Holy Land In August, 1348, the pestilential scourge, known as the Black Death,554 appeared in England, and reached London in the following November. London and the Kingdom - Volume I The officers of the law were upon them: 'What, yet another conventicle of these pestilential heretics to be broken up?' shouted a wrathful voice. A Book of Quaker Saints The sea has forsaken the harbor, which is now a pestilential morass. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Beside them a smudge dribbled a wisp of smoke sufficient to ward off a pestilential swarm of mosquitoes and black flies. North of Fifty-Three We have seen that the summer climate of the Lower Jordan Valley is pestilential. With the British Army in The Holy Land The fifteen hundred new men landed in that pestilential climate, in the unhealthy season, paid bitterly for their imprudence. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III In fact he was as completely invisible as the pestilential germ on the back of a sick flea. Born Again They nurse the sick, breathing the pestilential atmosphere of the hospital. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It comes down from the hills thick with pestilential matter. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. So there we were, arrested by some unseen hand; and this became the more unpleasant because a pestilential smell was in the place. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 It was formerly held in high esteem by the Egyptians, when diluted as a drink, in pestilential fevers. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure In that year, while the Blessed Beauty lay in chains and fetters, in that dark and pestilential pit, “the breezes of the All-Glorious,” as He Himself described it, “were wafted” over Him. Citadel of Faith Meanwhile a pestilential distemper crept in among the English forces, so long cooped up in narrow vessels. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. At every fair-time "a kind of pestilential fever" raged, so that at least 400 folk were buried there annually during the five or six weeks of the market. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. It is, also, not uncommon to find near them mines of salt and nitre; and caverns sending forth pestilential exhalations. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. If a pestilential exhalation is drawn from some decaying substance, it is not the fault of any alteration in the sunlight. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The bitter air of the northland had been cleansed of a pestilential breath. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The town was in a very disturbed state--large numbers of the Dervishes were still possessed of their arms, and the greater portion of the troops were withdrawn from the pestilential town. With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman The evening was warm; a most pestilential sort of mist usually covers the ground at dark. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government Here was a cavern, which sent forth a most pestilential vapour. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. The city, we were told, was involved in confusion and panic, for a pestilential disease had begun its destructive progress. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 As there is plenty of water in and near the mine, they should cut at once this abominable dam, which forms a pestilential swamp, the cess-pool of the neighbourhood. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Dread Acheron from beneath Bursts in a whirlpool, with its waves of woe, And jaws that gape with pestilential death. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor In vain I shewed him, that when winter came, the cold would dissipate the pestilential air, and restore courage to the Greeks. The Last Man When a pestilential disease breaks out in the city, the plainness and urgency of the case compel all to see in the sickness of one the danger of all. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society I question much whether her disease was pestilential. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 There has been of late a good deal of pestilential gossip by luxurious gentlemen at home about the Staff and its work. Leaves from a Field Note-Book This man kept his genius so long stagnant that it decayed on his hands, and then into his pestilential music he poured his poison, and would have made the world sick. Visionaries Thus gas-lighting, which to Sir Walter Scott was a "pestilential innovation" projected by a madman, weathered its early difficulties and grew to be a mighty industry. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization The gardens, so late a paradise, were transformed into the seat of corruption and pestilential putridity. Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred In and Near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, And Subsequent To, The Sanguinary Series Of Engagements Between The Allied Armies Of The French, From The 14th To The 19th October, 1813 Effluvia of a pestilential nature assailed me from every corner. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Situated amidst stagnant waters and morasses, its air is pestilential, especially to strangers. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte This pestilential passion has already ruined several great houses. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe There are always enough of that peculiar pestilential species who exist upon the breath of authority to catch up the whisperings of fancy and infect a whole military community. General Scott Although exposed to one of the most pestilential climates in the world, he did not lose a man. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders At length, a confession was extorted from him that there existed a pestilential disease in the city; but he added that it was hitherto confined to one quarter, distant from the place of his abode. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Before October was far advanced the pestilential air of the place, and the scarcity and badness of provisions, had filled his hospitals, and left him hardly half the number in fighting condition. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte That is to say, one of these twins is a pestilential fellow and the other is decidedly agreeable. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries You are a scathe and a blight; a pestilential ogre, drunk with self-worship. Destiny When we turn from such representations of divinity to "the Word made flesh" we seem to have escaped from the pestilential air of a charnel-house to the sweet, pure breath of heaven. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans Instead of pestilential or malignant fever, it might be a harmless intermittent. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Escaping the arid and pestilential blasts of April and May, and the noxious exhalations of the four succeeding months, the column advanced into Cutch. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 425 Volume 17, New Series, February 21, 1852 Not many days were required, after the fall of Calvi, to remove the fleet, and the seamen who had been serving on shore, from the pestilential coast. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Indeed, from the excessive heat of the weather, the survivors, besides the offensive disgusts naturally excited, felt very alarming apprehensions of some pestilential visitation; which, however, they happily escaped. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 Oswald and Corinne traversed the Pontine marshes—a country at once fertile and pestilential,—where, with all the fecundity of nature, a single habitation is not to be found. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy It was obvious to conclude that his disease was pestilential. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The yellow fever will discourage the growth of great cities in our nation, and I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Against his brother editors he hurled such epithets as "loathsome and leprous slanderer and libeller," "pestilential scoundrel," "polluted wretch," "foul jaws," "common bandit," "prince of darkness," "turkey buzzard," "ghoul." Fifth Avenue In the summer pestilential fevers and agues crept out of the marshes and wasted us. Carette of Sark I requested to see a piece of it; but, on opening the cask, so disgusting and pestilential a smell took possession of the hold as compelled me instantly to quit it. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 What's this! methought some pestilential blast Struck me, just entering; and some unseen hand Struggled to push me backward! tell me why My hair stands bristling up, why my flesh trembles? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Such pestilential perversion of truth is freely circulated and firmly believed, for contradiction never penetrates to those gulled by these lies. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent To his eyes they were a pestilential crew. Fifth Avenue It was a foul pestilential place, there is no doubt. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College A pestilential Panama, for instance, is not natural, but subnatural, and must be brought up to its divine nature, when it will serve the children of God. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking There are woods not far from Nancy from which there comes a pestilential stench which steals down the wind in gusts of obscene odor. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 He was always absolutely true,—an oasis in the pestilential desert of Humbug; but the present time allowed him a fine occasion. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. The Art of Public Speaking He turned the blessings my lips uttered into blighting curses, that fell on the happy couple like pestilential rain! Idolatry A Romance Even as late as three hundred and ninety years after the foundation of Rome, a chasm opened in the Forum, and emitted flames and pestilential vapours. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Sandstorms are frequent, and at times the baleful simoon sweeps across the entire tract, destroying with its pestilential breath both men and animals. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. We have come from a pestilential city and we have touched the dead. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem The question now presents itself to every friend of humanity—to every philanthropist; is there no remedy for these evils, or must we groan under their pestilential influence forever? A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery Everywhere apprehension was felt lest he had fallen a victim to the ferocity of the savages, or to the pestilential climate. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Mean of the thermometer 83 1/2 From the time of our entering the Strait of Banca, we began to experience the powerful effects of this pestilential climate. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 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 Left to themselves, the rivers tend to desert some portions of the alluvium wholly, which then become utterly unproductive; while they spread themselves out over others, which are converted thereby into pestilential swamps. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. This mortality was occasioned by a malignant pestilential fever, which attacked indiscriminately all the inhabitants of Batavia, Europeans, natives, Chinese, and blacks. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 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 His spirit broken and his body smitten with incurable disease, the fleet under his command anchored at Puerto Bello after a heavy passage from Escudo de Veragua, a pestilential desert island. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon Unfortunately for the new-comers, the farm was located on the edge of a pestilential marsh, the poisonous exhalations of which soon brought the whole family down with the ague. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made This dragon here, the murderer of his mother, glares before the house his pestilential gleams—the object of my detestation—Menelaus, dost thou speak to this unholy wretch? The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. He appeared to her under the most hostile and monstrous form, breaking everything, and vanishing in a trail of pestilential vapours. The Cathedral Wherefore, after taking these out, the rest of the fish is thrown away, and as these lie in great heaps to corrupt, they exhale pestilential vapours and infect the air. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 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 The drainage of the town was taken in hand to some extent about fifty years ago, and the pestilential ditches and sewers that existed to within thirty years of the present time have gradually disappeared. The Evolution of an English Town Where gold and silver are to be found, or where wealth is to be acquired by commerce, men will readily settle, however barren and unfavourable the country, or however pestilential the climate. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 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 The two others were a young man and a maid, whom a pestilential fever had carried off after a short sickness. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 The clothes, only that morning taken out of pickle to be aired by the good wife, were pestilential. The Cathedral The air is very temperate and wholesome, unless when rendered otherwise by pestilential exhalations, that are most common after earthquakes, to which this country is peculiarly liable. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 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 On this occasion two fires were lit, between which cattle were driven as a preventative or charm against the murrain and other pestilential distempers. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 To the other terrible calamities inseparable from war, especially when carried on in this barbarous manner, a pestilential disease was superadded which committed dreadful ravages in Chili, especially among the natives. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 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 He had been dead above four-and-twenty hours, of a pestilential fever. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 As they stood warming themselves they discoursed of the pestilential incursions of the devil, when suddenly the performance was repeated. The Cathedral The most pestilentially lucky devil under the sun. Jaffery Meanwhile ague, fever, and death have been stalking all night long about the plain, within a few yards of their couch, and not one pestilential breath has reached the charmed precincts of the forest. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series There is a blight of unbelief abroad—a nebulous, pestilential rationalism. Children of the Mist Yes; I'm to release from prison the followers of the pestilential VENIZELOS. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 The further we went the thicker became the air; and at last the effluvia was so stifling and pestilential, that the torches burnt pale and dim, and more than once threatened to go out. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 To judge from the fervid descriptions given us by Jaffery and Liosha, Albania must be a pestilentially uncomfortable place to live in. Jaffery They're all pestilential, and if I had my way I'd have them stacked in the market place and burned by the common hangman. Septimus The odour of the fowls and rabbits, the goat, and the pig, all mingled in one pestilential stench. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Even had they been victorious, he argued, they had intended to leave their present camp, which was unhealthy at all times, and was now in the hot season becoming pestilential. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. The climate of the Terai, unpleasantly but not unbearably hot in the summer months, is pestilential and deadly during the rains, when malaria and the more dreaded black-water fever take toll of the strongest. The Elephant God Adrian was a lucky devil, a pestilentially lucky devil. Jaffery He had heard the Cure which he regarded as a divine unction termed a pestilential quackery; the words burned red-hot in his brain. Septimus He was laughing because he had prevented his favorite from coming to his pestilential resting-place. The Nameless Castle The Synod therefore proceeded against them in their absence; and ultimately, on the 24th of April 1610, pronounced them guilty of pestilential errors, and corruptors of the true religion. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands So great was their amazement that any one should have escaped from these pestilential vapours, that they attributed it to divine interposition, and looked upon him with some of the awe of superstition. After London Or, Wild England He is suffering now from weakness and fever; but he might get well, especially if we could move him out of this pestilential air. The Sign of the Red Cross She did not call the Cure pestilential quackery. Septimus The poor lunatic, it seems probable, had cherished a delusion that his haughty mistress sat in state, unharmed herself by the pestilential influence which as by enchantment she scattered round about her. Twice Told Tales I was promptly informed of this, and urged the president to supply a remedy therefor at once, in order that that pestilential fire should not spread in these islands. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 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 The weather was always hot, often damp and sultry, and the atmosphere on shore so pestilential, that no one was permitted to remain there after sundown. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 4, April, 1884 Moreover, they inhaled the pungent fumes of the burning drugs and vinegar which alone made it possible to breathe the atmosphere tainted by so much pestilential sickness. The Sign of the Red Cross None but Indians could live and labour and travel habitually, in such a pestilential atmosphere. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Graves were hastily dug and the pestilential relics as hastily covered, because the dead were enemies of the living and strove to draw them headlong, as it were, into their own dismal pit. Twice Told Tales The dungeon in which he was confined is yet pointed out in Blackness Castle, a dark, dismal, pestilential vault. Sketches of the Covenanters Push on, brave bearer of piercing Light, Through pestilential gloom, Where crawls the spawn of Corruption's night! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891 He will be strangled or choked by the pestilential smell if we cannot get him away. The Sign of the Red Cross In the Atacama districts, and along the banks of the River of Emeralds, the physical obstructions are difficult to overcome, and pestilential diseases of malignant character forbid the long sojourn of the European. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Between here and Vera Cruz, people prefer travelling in the Diligence, or in some covered carriage, to exposing themselves to the sun in the hot and pestilential region of the coast. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern He it was who invented the "republican marriage"—the drowned bodies of whose naked victims dammed the river Loire, and rendered its water pestilential. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy At the time of Dr. McLean's arrival at James Island, many soldiers were sick with the pestilential "camp fever" of that sultry climate, or were suffering from the wounds of battle at the army hospital. Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Lopez de Mosquito—viler than his pestilential name—had murdered the Sultan, who was then his guest, chopped up the body, and thrown it into the sea. Elizabethan Sea Dogs The Ouse was "a slow winding river," watering low meadows, from which crept pestilential fogs. Cowper He was President before Comonfort, and is now established with his Indian regiments in the hot pestilential regions of the Pacific coast. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern The stagnation of a deluge caused by the torrential swelling of the Tiber produced a pestilential disease, and a stranger visiting Rome might contemplate with horror the solitude of the city. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Chopin concludes that a lease is only voidable in case of material defect, or nuisance, as of pestilential air, not in a case which, after all, is a mere vice d’esprit. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Unfortunately, of all the sickly climates of Africa, this is perhaps the most pestilential, and Mr. Nicholls, before commencing his journey, fell a victim to the epidemic fever. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Prolonged residence in this pestilential Congo had sapped his constitution; the poison was constantly eating at him; and he must either get relief in a very short time, or give up the fight and die. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle The water filters through the sand-hills, and forms great stagnant lagoons; a rank tropical vegetation springs up, and the air is soon filled with pestilential vapours. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern It is so unpropitious to European life that the pestilential breath of death may be said to lurk in every calm, and to be wafted in every gale. A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 He affirmed that their oaths were falsified by their own log-books; and that from their own accounts the very healthiest of their vessels were little better than pestilential gaols. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II I suppose it is the intermediate region between the sea-board and the mountains that becomes so pestilential when once the warm weather sets in. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 If we omit the great plague spot, the city of Havana, it will appear that Santiago is in a region as pestilential as can be found in the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Thus religion becomes a mere haunted and pestilential jungle of beliefs. The Making of Religion Chia`na, a small, stagnant, pestilential affluent of the Tiber, now deepened into a healthful and serviceable stream, connecting the Tiber with the Arno. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Back he went into the pestilential charnel-pit, where he crawled around on hands and knees and groped for half an hour. Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews He described hell to them as a pestilential hole, where all the filthiness of the world flowed together. Pictures of Sweden He's a pestilential cur, that has got himself introduced into the family, and the sooner we get quit of him the better. Mr. Scarborough's Family A late Learned Physician has found that a Salt extracted out of snow is a sovereign Remedy against both putrid and pestilential Feavors. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 The bookseller dares not to exhibit their books on his counter: all presume them to be pestilential: no one knows their contents or dares to inform himself. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed Her little Jack was placed in her arms, and they endeavored to cross that pestilential marsh in the quickest manner. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen The clubs, those hot-beds of the revolution, still exercised their pestilential influence over the populace of Paris, and stirred the rude masses incessantly to fresh paroxysms of discontent and disorder. Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era The odor of burning human flesh and other pestilential fumes seemed to assail me. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography In addition to the exhalations from the exposed part of the river's bed, there are others of a still more pestilential character, which arise from stagnant pools at the foot of the hill. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America With glad welcome he discovered David Cairns here and there among short-story contributors, but the love of man and woman which the stories in general exploited, struck him of Indian ideals as shifty and pestilential. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Was it not enough that I was publicly dishonoured? that I was deprived, by the pestilential influence of some demon, of the opportunity of avenging my dishonour? Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are They order vinegar in cases of quinsies and ardent fevers, and garlic in those of a putrid, malignant, and pestilential kind. Travels through the Empire of Morocco It is quite inconceivable with what increased zeal new candidates for African discovery come forward the moment that the death of any fresh victim to this pestilential country is announced. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 The usual conversation at his stepmother's table was, as he would have said, so pestilentially high-brow that he seldom troubled himself to follow it enough to join in. The Bent Twig "You pestilential little cad!" cried Jack, wheeling round and letting out his wrath; "go home!" The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction At all times, this crowded and ill-kept prison was infested by the gaol-fever and other pestilential disorders, but these were mild in comparison with the present terrible visitation. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire After much persuasion, I prevailed on some of them to make use of the fuming mixture of brimstone and aromatic ingredients, in all cases of pestilential fevers. Travels through the Empire of Morocco Abominable as the Boer War was, the mind of England was less pestilential after it than before. Essays in Rebellion Disguised with Huitzilopochtli, he irritated the people until they stoned the brother gods to death, and from the corrupting bodies spread a pestilential odor, to which crowds of the Toltecs fell victims. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent She remained a perfect woman all along her full tale of years, and not as some of them do become—a sort of slippery, pestilential old man in petticoats. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Leonard remained by him for a short time, but, overpowered by the pestilential effluvia, and the sight of so many miserable objects, he was compelled to seek the open air. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell. The Devil's Dictionary Eden was a hard school to learn so hard a lesson in; but there were teachers in the swamp and thicket, and the pestilential air, who had a searching method of their own. Martin Chuzzlewit This morning’s post brought your packet, and the announcement of an extra mail to-night—so I can send you a P.S. I hear that Capetown has been pestilential, and as hot as Calcutta. Letters from the Cape From its surface exudes pestilential odors, and a drop of malignant liquid from its depths, extracted from time to time, spreads all repugnant ills upon the world. The Tarn of Eternity In this dismal region it was found impossible to obtain a free circulation of air, and consequently the pestilential effluvia, unable to escape, acquired such malignancy, that it was almost certain destruction to inhale it. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Again, a pestilential disease made its appearance, to which many hundreds fell victims. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 In the first place, the pestilential disease, or plague, seized upon the city, and ate up all the flower and prime of their youth and strength. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Their foe, not vexed with pestilential air Nor stagnant waters, ample range enjoyed Upon the spacious uplands: yet as though In leaguer, famine seized them for its prey. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars A thick and pestilential fog clouded the height of the vaulted dungeon. The Monk; a romance Oratorically you soar like the condor when its shadow falls upon the highest peaks of the Andes, but logically you grope among the pestilential shadows of an intellectual Dismal Swamp, ever mistaking shadow for substance. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 The army of Frederic encamped at Brundusium; but a pestilential disease having made its appearance among them, their departure was delayed for several months. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 |
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