Two-thirds of Siena's citizens perished during an outbreak of plague.
Soon the city was stricken by Britain's last great outbreak of plague.
Dr. Biggins said he had seen an outbreak of plague hit a line of dusted test burrows and stop cold.
In May 1384 Castilian armies besieged John in Lisbon until the outbreak of plague forced them to withdraw (September).
From 1833 to 1837, Lesseps was consul at Cairo, where he gained distinction in combating an outbreak of plague.
(The plaster was also riddled with small incisions, which had been made to permit the insertion of a supposedly curative poultice during an outbreak of plague).
Nonetheless, this first identified outbreak of plague in the continental United States illuminates the major issues of public health work then and now.
The first of these, the outbreak of plague in 1348 49 (see Black Death), wiped out perhaps as much as half of the city's population.
Donne brilliantly analyzed Biblical texts and applied them to contemporary events, such as the outbreak of plague that devastated London in 1625.
There is terror on the streets, thanks to the failed gunpowder plot and to an outbreak of plague, while at the Jacobean court politics is, as ever, rotten to the core.
He may not have been alone in thinking that he was twice spared: first, the previous November, from the gunpowder plot's explosion and flames; then, almost exactly a year later, from an outbreak of plague that had reached his doorstep.
