A cottage industry of Passover children's toys and props has developed over the last several years, with "plague bags" filled with toy symbols like frogs, and finger puppets of Moses, his sister Miriam, and Pharaoh and his daughter available in Judaica stores and on the Internet.
The principal villain, Chiche (Sergei Komarov), is a coldhearted mastermind who plans to destroy the new society of the Bolsheviks by means of electrical insulators filled with plague germs.
Furthermore, he was plagued by recurring nightmares filled with whiteness.
Massive crowds and long lines plague important landmarks and museums, often filled with travelers more focused on snapping the perfect selfie than absorbing what's in front of them.
The plan was called "Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night" and called for kamikaze planes filled with fleas infected with plague (Yersinia pestis) to crash into civilian population centers in the city, hoping to spread plague in the city and effectively kill tens of thousands of civilians.
Toni Morrison declared, after having read it, that Coates filled the "intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died".
-A Department of the Interior filled with oil industry alumni plagued with scandalous revelations of oil industry favoritism.. -One could go on.
There was a succession of plagues in Manchester from the 14th century onwards, and during the Great Plague of 1655 56 the holes in the top of the stone were filled with vinegar or holy water, through which coins were passed in the belief that would halt the spread of the disease.
Yoshitoshi prints from the late 1860's are filled with death and brutality, reflecting the violence that plagued Japan at the time.
As Stubbs says, incarceration in the plague-filled gaol "was all but a death sentence": he only lasted a little while.
The dark, plague-filled clouds began to part, however slightly, and there seemed to be an awakening -- a ray of light emerging in Washington.
