Sentence examples for plague destroyed from inspiring English sources
In one of the early books, On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura's Pa goes to look for work hundreds of miles away after a grasshopper plague destroyed their harvest – and gets caught in a blizzard on the way home.
In She, a plague destroyed the original inhabitants of Kôr.
Ideas of public health insurance or retirement plans did not get enough support then, but Americans agreed that alcoholism was a plague destroying the lives of many American families and therefore was detrimental to the well-being of the nation as a whole.
Two decades after a terrible plague destroys modern civilization, a hard-bitten black marketeer ends up in league with a 14-year-old girl as they try to rescue some life for themselves in a ruined America.
In her new novel, Atwood returns to the post-apocalyptic mode of her 2003 book, "Oryx and Crake," with the story of two women isolated as a genetically engineered plague destroys mankind.
I Am Legend (a remake of Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man), set in 2012, is a deserted world but for a small number of solitary survivors and untold numbers of zombie like victims of the plague that destroyed everyone else.
They have not yet had the same impact as the Black Death – but as we saw in New Orleans in 2005, it does not take the bubonic plague to destroy social order and functional infrastructure in a financially complex and impoverished society.
There are no unnecessary diversions from the central telling of the ancient myth: King Oedipus unwittingly killed his father, married his mother and is responsible for the plague now destroying the city state of Thebes: "Women give birth to buckets of blood./ Meat turns to manure in our hands", as McGuinness puts it.
It ends – after a remarkable amount of gratuitous nudity – with a zombie plague that destroys London.
The question now is how much the plague will destroy and how permanent the destruction will be before demography overtakes it.
Orihuela suffered several epidemics of plague, was partly destroyed by an earthquake in 1829, and has often been flooded by the Segura River.
