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Meanings of dreadful scourge in English

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Usage of dreadful scourge in English
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Now the tribe has been reduced to comparative insignificancy by this dreadful scourge.
The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Son...
2
That dreadful scourge, also, the plague, is a frequent visitor.
Old Jack
3
But come, let us try to find out the reason of the dreadful scourge.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
4
That dreadful scourge, the cholera, was raging, and they were alarmed by rumors of war.
Woman: Man's Equal
5
In those early days, before Lady smallpox was considered, as indeed it was, the most dreadful scourge of the world.
Boys and Girls from Thackeray
6
The Almighty punished the neglect of this warning with a dreadful scourge, from which thousands have suffered death, or pains worse than death.
The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power
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Famine also frequently prevails, and is a dreadful scourge, even compelling mothers to sell some of their children that they may save the rest.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 / Volume 17, New Series, J...
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But in their ignorance and seclusion there was at least safety, and they were free from that dreadful scourge-"themalicious strife of tongues."
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
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That fever, "yellow jack" as we used to call it, is truly one of the most dreadful scourges of the West Indies.
Hurricane Hurry
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"What a dreadful scourge it is."
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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