Příklady pestilence

• Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence.

• The enormity and constant observance of death during a time of pestilence indicates some explanation of late the medieval hedonism that occurs.

• She is propitiated especially at times of pestilence, when chickenpox and measles strike.

• Pollution and pestilence have broken out, contagion made more terrible by their sheer numbers overwhelms them.

• He asserted that famine, war and pestilence were positive ways of checking the growth in population, sweeping away excess peoples, and then maintaining a rough equilibrium between people and necessities.

• Had the countryside been left largely untouched by the pestilence, the rapid repopulation of affected cities would have been relatively unproblematic, and the long-term consequences of the disease accordingly slight.

• Although the island is "a great cemetery" lying "under the hot sun of the tropics", it is not the cesspool of pestilence and poison that it should be.

• The alternative is possible war, famine and pestilence.

• Delays are one of the pestilences from which men suffer.

• Millions of people are condemned to an early death and pestilences and famines rage throughout the country.

• Again, the pestilences which devastate the land periodically can only be held in check by the vigilance, the energy and the resource of the officials concerned.

• There will be stirrings of nations and evil reports, pestilences, famines, and earth quakes in various places.

• The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at allit is very tiresome.

• I wanted to keep out pestilence, disease and that sort of thing.

• There is the source of the recurring pestilence.