Sentence examples for fear of plague from inspiring English sources
The fear of terrorism is not so dreadful as the fear of plague.
The band of rogues who scam Blackfriars residents, claiming to be able to make their dreams come true, have the run of a grand townhouse because the gentry have left the city in fear of plague.
In 1500 fear of plague drove him from Paris.
The movie, which was directed by Marc Forster and was written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and a host of collaborators, evokes the hectic density of modern life; it stirs fears of plague and anarchy, and the feeling that everything is constantly accelerating.
There's something of SF about Cortés and his men advancing through Aztec Mexico (the archetype for all later invasion narratives and tales of space colonists), about the Black Death (the model for all our fears of plague), about the Somme, and, above all, about Treblinka, the Gulag, Nagasaki.
"The plague was nothing; fear of the plague was much more formidable".
The characteristic aspects of his theory—"papal conspiracy," the inability of contagious disease to strike twice, and the lack of fear of the plague in the Levant were debated and meticulously picked apart by his detractors.
They reveal a man of intensely competitive urges, impelled by a Calvinist fear of chaos, plagued by doubts, exceptionally competent and confident but uneasy in his own skin, indefatigable, loyal and loyalty-inspiring yet also somewhat lonely.
He is, according to Ben Macintyre, the U.S. editor of the Times of London, "impelled by a Calvinist fear of chaos, plagued by doubts".
Fears of the plague and the menace of an attack by armed Protestant forces induced the Pope to accept the council's transfer to Bologna in February 1548.
