Meanings of pestilential disease in English

Again, a pestilential disease made its appearance, to which many hundreds fell victims.

A pestilential disease with which they were visited was regarded as an unerring sign of the divine wrath.

But a pestilential disease, the scourge of those burning shores, soon spread its ravages among the ranks of the Christians.

The city, we were told, was involved in confusion and panic, for a pestilential disease had begun its destructive progress.

The army of Frederic encamped at Brundusium; but a pestilential disease having made its appearance among them, their departure was delayed for several months.

Unwholesome food, and the impure air from the neighbouring marshes, engendered pestilential diseases, which carried them off more rapidly than the arrows of the enemy.