23 Metaphors for plague

Lastly, he wishes the dog-days would last all year long; and a great plague is his year of jubilee.

To conclude, the only two plagues he trembles at is small beer and the Spanish Inquisition.

what a plague, Of varried tortures is a womans hart?

" "Plague on her conscience!" was my Lady's imprecation.

A friend of mine, an old doctor, told me the other day that in his youth the great plague of his life was the hysterical female.

The worst plague of all, however, are the sand-fleas, which attach themselves to one's toes, underneath the nails, or sometimes to the soles of the feet.

A plague of American flies would be a luxury compared to the visit of one fly from Egypt.

Learned men have disputed how far these plagues were miracles.

The plague is our harvest, as my friend Chowles, the coffin-maker, says, and it will not do to stop itha!

The seventh plague was a hail so great that there was never none like tofore, and thunder and fire that it destroyed all the grass and herbs of Egypt and smote down all that was in the field, men and beasts.

" "My calculations are, that the plague will be at its worst in August and September, and will not cease entirely till the beginning of December," observed Booker, laying aside his pen.

Pope Innocent VIII issued a Bull on the matter (1484) in which he asserted that plagues and storms are the work of witches, and the ablest minds believed in the reality of their devilish powers.

" "Why, what the plague is the matter?" rejoined Lydyard.

THE PLAGUE IS ANNOUNCED XXII THE CHARITY BALL XXIII

THE PLAGUE IS ANNOUNCED XXII THE CHARITY BALL XXIII

The last plague that torments him is leprosy, of which he is to be cured by Khasisadra, son of Oubaratonton, last of the ten primeval kings of Chaldea.

Oh, what a plague is love!

The peasants believed that the plague was a woman, an evil spirit (Kutga), who was destroying the cattle; so they sought to banish her.

" [109] I imagine that "plagues" should here be plague, in the singular number, and not plural.

The time of expectation was full of anxieties; plagues, famines, and divers accidents which then took place in divers quarters, were an additional aggravation; the churches were crowded; penances, offerings, absolutions, all the forms of invocation and repentance multiplied rapidly; a multitude of souls, in submission or terror, prepared to appear before their Judge.

These plagues are a battle between Jehovah, the one true and only God Almighty, and the false gods of Egypt, to prove which of them is master.

No, these plagues of society are only the extreme left wing; the right wing is a very respectable class in the community.

The wind, we were told, frequently raised the sand in clouds; and though the danger of being buried beneath the tombs thus made, we had reason to believe, was greatly exaggerated, yet the plague of sand is certainly an evil to be dreaded, and travellers will do well to avoid the season in which it prevails.

23 Metaphors for  plague