...When the Lord sends the curse of leprosy or pestilence into a family, every one flies and shuns the abode of the leprous or plague-stricken... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...The women had afterwards been distributed among the soldiers, and, in consequence, the pestilence had been disseminated throughout the place...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
... I returned to Canada; but found on my arrival at London, that "the pestilence that walketh at noon-day," had preceded me, and taken from that village my friend, Mr...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...This was done to ensure a fruitful and prosperous year;further, it was considered a safeguard against pestilence andsudden death...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Towards theend of 589, several temples and other monuments were destroyedby the flooding of the Tiber, and the city was afterwardsafflicted by a devastating pestilence...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...That church had beenlately erected in gratitude to the Virgin, who had liberated the cityfrom pestilence, and this was the subject of the picture...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...Another apparition in the firmament bodes war, famine, theadvent of grievous pestilence...
Camille Flammarion Frances A. Welby 「Astronomy for Amateurs」
...From these, therefore, or rather fromourselves, come death, pestilence, famine, war and those things wecall ills, and not from the Author of all good things except byaccident...
Dorothy Stimson 「The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe」
...All putrescible matter liable tobreed a pestilence is carried far from shore and sunk under fathomsof the never-stagnant sea...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...Some days after he learned that the few of his companions who survived had fled up the harbour to avoid the pestilence that so dreadfully raged...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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