Meanings of black plague in English

The howlers spread talk of yellow peril and black plague to follow.

I wouldn't touch you any more than I would the black plague.

The lab director compared it to a supersonic black plague.'

See Also: Image: Historical reenactment of the black plague.

I bet you would send black plague to that island if you only knew how-eh, what?

Image: Historical reenactment of the black plague.

And they still carry the black plague.

If this virus spread between people more easily, it would probably be more deadly than the black plague.

The mental shock sustained by all nations during the prevalence of the black plague is beyond parallel and description.

Has he the black plague?

Demoralization, like the black plague of the middle ages, spread in every direction immediately following the first overt acts of war.

The spirilla, as scientists now know, belong to the same family as those which cause what we call, euphemistically, the ' black plague.'

If he got mad, he'd shoot a special arrow that exploded into a foul vapor and spread smallpox or black plague or anthrax.

It was as if he were the owner of the trading ship that had brought the black plague to Europe in the Middle Ages.

If he complains of vaccination, what would he say of the more recent discovery of remedies for typhoid fever, yellow fever and the black plague?

Childcare costs teeter on the equivalent of a second mortgage, we worry about outdoor space and infections spread at the rate of the black plague.