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Meanings of great pestilence in English

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Usage of great pestilence in English
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Very soon afterwards a great pestilence arose, and decimated the town's population.
Stories of the Border Marches
2
THE next year was the year of the great pestilence.
The Unwilling Vestal
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Sickness broke out on the camping-grounds, and the more timorous foresaw a great pestilence.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
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But the great pestilence left no district unharmed.
The Unwilling Vestal
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No great pestilence has invaded our Shores.
A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the ...
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While he was there a great pestilence broke out, and every monk died, excepting Bede and another.
Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
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It was in the year 664 that there was a great pestilence, raging both in England and Ireland.
Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
8
And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
9
Gookin, the Indian historian, states that this tribe was almost wholly destroyed by the great pestilence of 1612.
Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G...
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And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2
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And it was in the realm of Logris; and so befel great pestilence and great harm to both realms.
Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed / (The Harva...
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The great pestilence of 166 so depleted the population that Rome never again pushed forward the boundaries of her Empire.
The Unwilling Vestal
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The fury of war fell on those sunny acres like a great pestilence, and their usefulness and beauty became desolation.
See America First
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It may be remarked, that the greatest proportion of births to burials, was in the five years after the great pestilence.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
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For years Oedipus lived in peace, unwitting; but at length upon that unhappy city there fell a great pestilence and famine.
Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
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During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
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