Sentence examples for plague struck from inspiring English sources

The plague struck Albany late in Jun. of that year.

In 1679 the bubonic plague struck the city, killing nearly a third of its population.

But once again plague struck the army, and Louis IX could not withstand it.

The Nile carried thousands of corpses away from Al-Manṣūrah, and plague struck the survivors.

That same decade, India reported a loss of more than $1 billion in travel and tourism revenues after plague struck a small area of the vast country.

Plague struck Cairo, as it did so often in the 18th century, and the French soldiers took to avoiding human contact by handling their orders with wooden pincers.

When plagues strike a country disease, economic collapse, political anarchy, blood in the water the country, for the purposes of social order, typically heaps its distress onto a marginal, despised minority.

Premise: An archangel and Satan bet the earth on which way Faust will go when plague strikes.

(One book that you may want to use in your research is "When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS" by James Cross Giblin and David Frampton).

The plague that is described in Oedipus Rex could possibly be related to the plague that struck Athens in 430 429 bc (11 ), the primary source for which is the papers of historian Thucydides (where he refers to an epidemic that has been named the plague of Athens) (5 ).

Four more cases have since been discovered, bringing the total this year to seven.Another plague then struck.