Sentence examples for pestilence of from inspiring English sources

'A Pestilence of Petulance' is what I'm tempted to call it but probably shouldn't".

Off the coast of Somalia, NATO and E.U. ships plow the same seas — countering the pestilence of piracy.

But at Hartford Stage, the plot's mystery lies not in tracking down what caused the pestilence of Thebes.

There is also a Simpsonian love of language leading Kitson to complain of "an insurmountable pestilence of squirrels".

He was in Athens when the great pestilence of 430 429 raged; he caught the disease himself and saw others suffer.

Moreover, in the course of his narrative (except for the pestilence of 430 and his command in 424) he never gives his authority for a statement.

Add to this misery the experience of pervasive pestilence, decades of oppressive taxation, corruption and infighting at the top end of society and rebellions at the bottom, and it becomes evident why the later 14th century was one of the most pessimistic of times.

The shadow of Tony Blair brings with it memories of past wars and pestilences, of slick and spin.

Local advocates contend that the plan will unleash the pestilences of gridlock, smog and overcrowding throughout the Kitchen, as some call the neighborhood, and not just down in the southern province of TunJav (the Lincoln Tunnel to the Javits Center).

Africa is labelled as a contagious continent incubating pestilences of all sorts in hot muggy jungles, spread by reckless and sexually unrestrained people.

"It is always very exciting when we can find out the actual cause of the pestilences of the past," said researcher Barbara Bramanti, an archaeogeneticist at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.