| He found a population of about 150 Malay inhabitants and a tropical rainforest edged by pestilential swamps. | 
 
 
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| Who can wonder that pestilential disease should originate and spread in such situations? | 
 
 
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| Her mixture burned the pestilential corpses that threatened the defenders and her illuminations at night thwarted Vandal attacks. | 
 
 
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| During the hot weather it's a pestilential place, populated by heavy clouds of biting insects. | 
 
 
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| Their reputation was pestilential, and the greatest care was taken to leave them alone. | 
 
 
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| It has rid us of a pestilential politics based on religious hatred and elitist contempt for the poor. | 
 
 
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| It is a pestilential bureaucracy, which attempts to micro-manage higher and school education. | 
 
 
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| I long for the day I no longer have to think about this pestilential little locust. | 
 
 
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| The cruceƱos see themselves as pioneers who carved prosperity out of a pestilential jungle. | 
 
 
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| In medieval times, the privileged classes tried to avoid the effects of epidemics by fleeing the pestilential cities. | 
 
 
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| The streets had a central ditch in which excrement and pestilential waste accumulated. | 
 
 
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| As a defense mechanism against fish or predators, the Pectinatella emit a pestilential smell. | 
 
 
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| The Caribbean port of Veracruz was small, with its hot, pestilential climate not a draw for permanent settlers. | 
 
 
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| Most of them have had but a single gene tweaked, either to make them poisonous to pestilential insects or resistant to a particular herbicide so that it can be used freely. | 
 
 
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| He has enlarged upon what had to be done in consequence of the great and pestilential amount of oil to which, unfortunately, Galicia has fallen victim. | 
 
 
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| Initially, attempts were made to decontaminate all goods imported from pestilential areas, particularly mail. | 
 
 
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| Incense made from materials such as citronella can repel mosquitoes and other irritating, distracting or pestilential insects. | 
 
 
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| Doubtless, authoritarian governments are in close touch too, sharing the best ways of dealing with the pestilential gadflies and troublemakers of the internet. | 
 
 
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| When switched off to save supply, the result was pestilential odor. | 
 
 
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