Sentence examples for * the pestilence from inspiring English sources

There's the pestilence thing.

They advance against that standard, rather than the pestilence, beggary and injustice of serfdom.

"Once the pestilence sets in, it doesn't give up," he said.

Now the pestilence had broken out on a real city street.

It is generally agreed that the pestilence he describes signifies the Third Reich.

He reveals that he, too, was a victim of "the pestilence".

He was in Athens when the great pestilence of 430 429 raged; he caught the disease himself and saw others suffer.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse – pestilence, war, famine and death – so familiar during the middle ages, appeared again in the modern world.

Emperor Leopold I's reaction to the great pestilence of 1679 was firstly to flee the city and then to declare he'd erect a Pestsäule (plague column) when the all-clear was given.

Whether the epistolary pestilence is the work of bin Laden or a rogue state or, as some in the F.B.I. think, a demented American scientist, journalists are big targets.

Between 1347 and 1351 the "Great Pestilence" swept westward across Europe killing millions of people.