Sentence examples for pox ravaged from inspiring English sources
Small pox ravaged the camp.
From Botticelli's Venus to Titian's Flora, the greatest artists dedicated their genius to imposing impossible standards of beauty on a world that, in reality, was scarred by pox, ravaged by poverty and untouched by hygiene.
There, Guybrush encounters the Voodoo Lady, who explains that the pox will ravage the Caribbean, unless it is absorbed by a voodoo sea sponge called "La Esponja Grande" (The Big Sponge).
Symptoms included incontinence and impotence, and "No one knows how many Union and Confederate wives and widows went to their graves, rotted and ravaged by the pox that their men brought home," writes Civil War medical historian Thomas Lowry.
Von Hutten had firsthand experience with the pox: his body had been ravaged by it for more than nine years, until in 1519 he was miraculously cured in Augsburg by the new "wonder drug" guaiacum (a wood imported from the newly discovered West Indies).
Elizabeth Anne Fenn, a historian at George Washington University, in a new book, "Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82," shows how George Washington was deeply suspicious of British smallpox attacks as the disease ravaged his troops.
State budgets are ravaged.
In 1136 he ravaged Normandy.
Europe was broken, ravaged, powerless.
Disease ravaged indigenous communities everywhere.
