Meanings of fearful pestilence in English

One would have thought that some fearful pestilence had fallen upon the town.

Just then the news came that the fearful pestilence, the Sweating Sickness, had broken out in the town.

The dead were left unburied, as the savages endeavored to flee in all directions from the fearful pestilence.

The "Black Prince" died, and the "Black Death," a fearful pestilence, desolated a land already decimated by protracted wars.

A storm was gathering, she could see it approaching-andbeyond it, like another murky, death-dealingthunder-cloud ,wasthe pestilence, the fearful pestilence.

At home the visitation of a fearful pestilence caused distress and sorrow, while party fury rent the parliament and disturbed the repose of the country.

"Has this fearful pestilence no power to restrain the appetites and passions of the people?"

"-Inthe midst of these calamities, the fearful pestilence swept over France, called the "Black Death."