Plagues
[pleiɡz]
Examples
- This is considered as a privileged place, and stands like the land of Goshen amid the plagues of Egypt. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Agriculture must have declined, and the population notably decreased through the plagues and distresses from which it had suffered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is like one of those plagues the priests tell us of. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body. Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Daniel