Cattle Plague

Madame Sand describes the havoc as unprecedented in her experience -- the flowers and grass killed, the leaves scorched and yellowed, the baked earth under foot literally cracking in many places; no water, no hay, no harvest, but destructive cattle-plague, forest-fires driving scared wolves to seek refuge in the courtyard of Nohant itself -- the remnant of corn spared by the sun, ruined by hail-storms. ❋ Bertha Thomas (N/A)

Slavonian and Bulgarian peasants conceive cattle-plague as a foul fiend or vampyre which can be kept at bay by interposing a barrier of fire between it and the herds. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Forster became Vice-President of the Council, which meant Minister for Education, with a few other trifles like the cattle-plague thrown in. ❋ Ward, Mrs Humphry (1918)

Question: Which is the most "beastly plague," a cattle-plague case for a farmer, or the ablative case for a school-boy? ❋ Unknown (1914)

Once when it was neglected, the cattle-plague broke out in the parish and ceased, says the story, not until it was restored, when right away there was an end. ❋ Riis, Jacob A (1901)

The weather was still bitterly cold, snow lay everywhere, little or no food could be obtained, the commissariat refraining from requisitioning cattle at the farms, for all through the departments for Mayenne and Ille-et-Vilaine cattle-plague was raging. ❋ Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1887)

Council, which meant Minister for Education, with a few other trifles like the cattle-plague thrown in. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

The recent cattle-plague has fallen heavily upon him. ❋ James Bryce Bryce (1880)

Hence the cattle-plague which in 1896 carried off the larger part of the transport-oxen was a terrible misfortune, not only to the natives who owned these animals, but also to the whole northern region, which largely depends upon cattle transport for its food, its comforts, its building materials, and its mine machinery. ❋ James Bryce Bryce (1880)

All sorts of spells: how to stop the cattle-plague with a plough, and how to cure children by putting them under the perches in the hen-house! ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

We told him who we were, and tried to interest him in the cattle-plague, which he appeared to regard as an evil very unreal and far away -- like the murrain upon Pharaoh's herds which one reads about in Exodus. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

While the cattle-plague had the effect of greatly reducing the number of live stock brought into London yearly, it gave a considerable impetus to the Fresh Meat traffic. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)