In comments on his table, Potter says that he has doubtless included mention of many plagues which, although described under that name, are probably a dissimilar disease, writers having applied the terms pestilential and pestilent in a generic sense to diseases specifically different. ❋ Unknown (1896)
It is the spirit which incarcerates unfortunate prisoners of honorable warfare in pestilential holds, stifles them with thirst, starvation, diseased meats, if not slow poisons, and plants tons of gunpowder under them that, in case of inability to retain them, they might be blown to atoms at the mere touch of a match. ❋ Unknown (1865)
18.3 In comments on his table, Potter says that he has doubtless included mention of many plagues which, although described under that name, are probably a dissimilar disease, writers having applied the terms pestilential and pestilent in a generic sense to diseases specifically different. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease. ❋ Edward Robins (1902)
At every fair-time "a kind of pestilential fever" raged, so that at least 400 folk were buried there annually during the five or six weeks of the market. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
Eck's comments on the "pestilential" errors of Wiclif and Hus condemned by the Council of Constance was met by the reply, that, so far as the position of the Hussites was concerned, there were among them many who were "very Christian and evangelical". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Certain it is, that after he had left the island called La Mona, and when he was approaching the island of San Juan, a drowsiness, which Las Casas calls "pestilential," but which might reasonably be attributed to the privations, cares, and anxieties which the admiral had now undergone for many months, seized upon him, and entirely deprived him for a time of the use of his senses. ❋ Arthur Helps (1844)
The Arangi was a labour-recruit ship that carried the new-caught, cannibal blacks from remote islands to labour on the new plantations where white men turned dank and pestilential swamp and jungle into rich and stately cocoanut groves. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There is a law Section 1170 that states that the Board of Health and Sanitation of the City of New York may remove from the public arena any person sick with any contagious, pestilential, or infectious disease. ❋ Julie Chibbaro (2011)
I could make out fish and meat bones, garbage, pestilential rags, old boots, broken earthenware, and all the general refuse of a human sty. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What was remarkable was that the Allies having spent nearly six years fighting to destroy this pestilential horror in the heart of Europe, then turned round and assisted the German people to rebuild their society and their prosperity. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Back he went into the pestilential charnel-pit, where he crawled around on hands and knees and groped for half an hour. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In truth, we found fevers, violent deaths, pestilential paradises where death and beauty kept charnel-house together. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He removes the progeny of the gutter-folk from their pestilential environment, and gives them ❋ Unknown (2010)
If they want to know their first task, as coaching motivator and quarterback leader, it's to eradicate pestilential losses like this one. ❋ Thomas Boswell (2010)
But they were filled by the pestilential dead, and I passed by without exploring them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As Crusader knights during the Dark Ages, Nicolas Cage (in full frown mode) and Ron Perlman (loved him as "Hellboy") fight computer-generated hordes, lose faith in their cause and return to a Europe that has been afflicted by the plague — not the standard Black variety, but an even more pestilential strain that may have been caused by witchcraft. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)
From the beasts of prey and the cannibal humans down to the death-dealing microbes, no quarter is given; and daily, wider and wider areas of hostile territory, whether of a warring desert-tribe in Africa or a pestilential fever-hole like Panama, are made peaceable and habitable for mankind. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He wondered if it was the wind that was blowing the disease away and cleansing the pestilential land. ❋ Unknown (2010)
