Sentence examples for off the plague from inspiring English sources

In days gone by garlic was even used to help ward off the plague.

The messages become more menacing, and symbols once used to ward off the plague are found sprayed on doors of local businesses.

And even those who have yet to introduce antibacterial gel into their lives with anything approaching real rigour still seem to carry it – tucking it into their handbags like some kind of posy to ward off the plague.

Sudjic suggests the modern counterpart to Loewy is Philippe Starck, whose Café Costes in Paris, fashionable for five minutes in 1984, "triggered off the plague of designer kettles, hotels, mineral water, pasta, toothbrushes, and all the other useless paraphernalia that now laps around the world".

A drop of gin was once advised to ward off the plague, a glug of wine to "defend the body from corruption" and a sip of absinthe to cure the body of roundworms.

Although no longer consumed for medicinal purposes or as a spice as it once was in Ancient Egypt, and the East, or carried around to ward off the plague and other contagious diseases as it was during the Black Death in Europe, ambergris has not lost its mystique or value in the modern marketplace.

Cut off in the plague city, the people's moorings of past loves and values are all lost: "They experienced the deep suffering of all prisoners and all exiles, which is to live with a memory which serves no purpose".

And in 1973 he was readmitted to BBC drama to direct his own play, The Roses Of Eyam, set in the Derbyshire village which sealed itself off with the Plague rather than risk spreading it.

People in the Middle Ages wore arsenic amulets around their necks to ward off the bubonic plague, and women in Victorian times applied arsenic compounds to their faces to whiten their complexions.

After a season in which the Jets seemed out of sync, their owner seemed out of touch with the off-the-field issues plaguing his team.

Modern Israel, however, has a greater range of tools to fight off this plague.