Specific contagious and frequently fatal human disease caused by Yersinia pestis.
1 Local authorities used the plague as an opportunity to reshape the city.
2 Sad the story of the plague in the City, it growing mightily.
3 But the plague of it all is the damage to the fishing.
4 Some time did pass; the plague ship grew larger and more distinct.
5 People carried and spread the plague unawares until the fever took hold.
6 When the plague breaks out the censorship must be of the strictest.
7 I read on, but the nature of the plague was not discussed.
8 Her satisfaction in Mr Elliot outweighed all the plague of Mrs Clay.
9 Another outbreak of the plague , in 1427, inflicted injury upon the order.
10 No ships will put in here so long as the plague exists.
11 A quiet, respectable fellow; lost his family in the plague in '38.
12 In the religious houses the plague wrought, if possible, worse havoc still.
13 These three calamities were the plague , the fire, and the Dutch invasion.
14 He then inquired as to the progress of the plague at Cairo.
15 Then God sent the plague of the locusts announced by Moses before.
16 All fear of the plague seemed to vanish with the flying disorder.
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