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In a column a few days ago I mentioned the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of whom is Pestilence.
Only one disappointment: Jeroen Paul Thesseling, the band's bass player, a former member of Pestilence and a brilliant fretless bassist, is not playing tonight.
Pestilence is less virulent during the winter months, and spreads less rapidly.
It is as if each pestilence required its own accountant who is spared in order to put down the death roll of the community.
Despite such reassurances, once the Pandora's box of the recall motion has been opened, there is no telling what pestilence will result.
Either the folk had died in the fire, died of the pestilence, or fled at first breath of either.
Nothing actually stopped this Viking invasion until 892, when pestilence so ravaged the army that they finally dispersed.
He ordered the nearby swamps and marshes in the city of Salinus to be drained, in order to prevent an unknown pestilence, probably malaria.
The shouts went up from men who'd already seen Mathian's banner fall, and panic spread out from them like pestilence.
They were so undernourished that they easily became ill from consumption, fevers, pestilence, and a variety of other disorders.
He argues that there is clear evidence for the pestilence having been plague, rather than other diseases that have been suggested such as anthrax.
The climactic moment of this final change is Asclepius's entry into Rome at the appeal of a Delphic oracle, who summons him to help this city against a devastating pestilence.
They advance against that standard, rather than the pestilence, beggary and injustice of serfdom.
Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Cover with a kerchief or napkin and leave it for quite a while so it absorbs all the pestilence.
So, that was the year that was: storm, death, war, pestilence and some excellent baking.
The fact is that we have been able to reduce disease and pestilence in our food supplies to the betterment of the consumer.
In the countryside, famine and pestilence on a scale not seen in centuries had driven the villages to the point of cannibalism.
Diseases of pestilence, malnutrition, war and famine, have not been completely eradicated but they have been diminished.
The more sin spreads like a pestilence and causes the death of souls, the less it is talked about.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.
In the course of the pestilence they had inherited a magnificent abode on the Esquiline.
Has this fearful pestilence no power to restrain the appetites and passions of the people?
And thus, croaking like the ravens when they anticipate pestilence, the ill-boding sibyls withdrew from the churchyard.
How did he know that this dog, or this man, was the cause of the pestilence which afflicted Ephesus?
Probably the year in question was 1645, when the district was ravaged with the pestilence.
Yet it had sufficed that the nations should flock there for a pestilence to break out.
There might have been found a sanitarian and physician who would free the island of pestilence.
The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
War and pestilence are intimately associated in the mind of the babylonians.
The second power of vulgarity is obscenity, and this vice is like the pestilence.
It was the time of the great famine and pestilence in the basilicata.
He distinguishes carefully pestilence from epidemy and endemy.
His breath bred pestilence and conflagration, and his appetite bred famine.
Kidd is a pestilence, but Don Miguel is the Black Plague itself!
It was the pestilence which gave rise to the decameron of Boccaccio.
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.
Cotton and indigo have ruined more men than famine and pestilence.
They declaimed about famine and pestilence as being scourges of God, while the scientists were building granaries and draining cities.
How is it that some pestilence does not carry off all these poor people?
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