Sentence examples for time of plague from inspiring English sources

One of her favourite poems, Thomas Nashe's crisp "A Litany in Time of Plague", was read at her memorial meeting.

Feasting in a time of plague is harder in Novorossiysk than it was in Odessa or Kiev.

The year 2000 was a time of plague for the South African town of Ndumo, on the border of Mozambique.

In time of plague, an infected animal would be sent over to the enemy as an early weapon of mass destruction.

"When I first proposed the idea for a ball in 1998, just after the financial crisis, people were against it, saying it would look like a feast during a time of plague," Ms. Nikitina said.

The action-packed verse drama, dashed off in a fortnight in 1830, consists of four plays: "The Knight-Miser," "Mozart & Salieri," "The Stone Guest," and "The Feast in Time of Plague".

It's a kind of feast-in-time-of-plague poetry.

"The butchery of the innocent never stops," as one poem begins, although your work also offers consoling images of domesticity — your mom in "her red bathrobe," your grandmother ironing, a lover who "stirs the shrimp on the stove". It's a kind of feast-in-time-of-plague poetry.

By Charles Simic The New Yorker, July 30 , 1990P. 73 A feast in the time of plague View Article Charles Simic is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the author, most recently, of "The Lunatic".

In times of plague in old Europe, or after battles, bodies might lie unburied.

Nivedita also made notable efforts to serve the poor of Calcutta and Bengal during times of plague, famine, and floods there.