Sentence examples for with pestilence from inspiring English sources

Before the blaze, the capital was a medieval city of half-timbered houses riddled with pestilence.

More than a few insects are associated with pestilence and disease, of course, and others sting us or drink our blood.

The House of Rudtrodd is always fortunate, praise be to the Lord our Savior, and let us all thank him for punishing our debauchery with pestilence.

Rats have long been one of the world's most ubiquitous and infamous forms of urban wildlife, synonymous with pestilence and squalor.

"In the long term I am very optimistic about the City, because the City has shown throughout history that it is able to deal with pestilence, bombing, blitzes, fires, all those things.

The gravediggers that ran across this corpse may have wanted to prevent a vampire from ravaging the city further with pestilence, Borrini and his colleague Emilio Nuzzolese suggested in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in 2010.

At the conclusion to La Peste, Rieux – whose wife has died of illness elsewhere, unconnected with the pestilence – watches families and lovers reunite when the gates of Oran are finally opened.

It was also necessary to explain how a transient body like Earth, filled with meteorological phenomena, pestilence, and wars, could be part of a perfect and imperishable heaven.

Each takes his turn to tell it, although it is the doctor, Rieux – the hidden narrator – who battles the pestilence with his work, medicine, just as Camus tried to battle first injustice, later fascism, with his labour in words.

Along the western front, trench warfare rapidly became the norm, soldiers on both sides deeply dug in, stuck in mud, filth and pestilence with a no-man's land sometimes just a few dozen yards wide running between the lines.

The newspapers rally the populace with news that the pestilence is under control when it is not.