Sentence examples for dreadful plague from inspiring English sources

Thucydides, having scarcely brought the Peloponnesians into Attica, switches styles dramatically to record the outbreak of a dreadful plague at Athens.

"A Trip to the Island of Equality," a 1792 reply to Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man," is a dystopia (on the island, the pursuit of equality has reduced everyone to living in caves), but Mary Shelley's 1826 novel, "The Last Man," in which the last human being dies in the year 2100 of a dreadful plague, is not dystopian; it's merely apocalyptic.

"We've got to recognize the problems and deal with them in a significant way, or that dreadful sin will plague us forever".

The fear of terrorism is not so dreadful as the fear of plague.

See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/112 Today's diverse populations within the vast Eurasian continent, whether east, west, central or south, retain a horror of 'the plague' - as dreadful an agent of gruesome death as Ebola virus and yellow fever.

It might explain the dreadful silences that too long plagued her family.

But having read the damn book, I am now plagued by a dreadful impulsiveness – my fervid brain tracks across the over-lit realms of modern indulgence on the lookout for newer and more dangerous forms of abandonment.

This was a non-story, in other words, a false alarm, and yet, for a brief period, everyone in that atrium must have felt a dreadful kinship with all the victims of the mass shootings that continually plague our country.

MINUSES: Mr. Malkovich's histrionic Murnau is a dreadful recapitulation of the hammy tics and vocal mannerisms that have increasingly plagued his screen performances over the last decade.

He had maintained relationships with the Gates and Agee families, and he says the killings, and their dreadful aftermath, were instrumental in making him want to look at the violence plaguing the African-American community.

The dreadful time is recalled in art, maps, death tallies and other artifacts in an exhibition, "Plague in Gotham!