Europe has had its share of plagues; probably more that either Japan or Korea.
But the NHS is not immune to the strain of plagues.
Nonbelievers will endure five months of plagues, quakes, wars, famine and general torment before the planet's total destruction in October.
The first period was a series of plagues that racked the Roman empire from the third to the sixth centuries.
In the absence of plagues of locusts, a good hit man can really clean up a dirty town.
Some analysts interpret the absence of plagues of boils and frogs as approbation; others point out that He moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform.
By the early 1970s visitors were making apocalyptic predictions of plagues and starving, rampaging mobs, and by the end of that decade Marxists were in charge.
Ozoyong showed such generosity toward the spirit of plagues that henceforth the spirit promised never to enter a household where a portrait of Ozoyong was hung.
"Contagion" does, however, advance the longstanding view — as old as the Bible, and in this case, scientifically sound — of plagues as essentially punitive.
He wrote of plagues of nightmares, three "zombie apocalypse" dreams in July and two in December, one of which depicted the end of the world.
