96 Verbs to Use for the Word plagues

has the boy got the plague?

" "He think white men bring plague, bring devils.

For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

In 1858 the gravity of the situation caused the French Academy of Sciences to appoint Commissioners, of whom a distinguished naturalist, M. de Quatrefages, was one, to inquire into the nature of this disease, and, if possible, to devise some means of staying the plague.

They break the tenth commandment, and pluck down upon their heads the plagues that are written in the book.

No sooner had I put it on my back, But suddenly mine eyes began to dim, My joints wex sore, and all my body burn['d] With most intestine torture, and at length It was too evident, I had caught the plague.

It might be replied that when a sewer is spreading plague in a town, we cannot wait to remove it till we have a new system of drains, and it may fairly be said that religion as practised in contemporary France was a poisonous sewer.

" "Well, well, if you don't escape the plague, it won't be your fault," returned Leonard, scarcely able to refrain from laughing.

'Tis my sole plague to be alone, I am a beast, a monster grown, I will no light nor company, I find it now my misery.

Suddenly catching her in his arms, he imprinted a kiss upon her lips: and then, with a frightful laugh, shouted, "I have given you the plague!

It is a singular coincidence, that having written how to prevent and cure the plague, he should die of that disease during the great mortality of 1625.

With their customary fatalism they accepted the locust plague as a necessary evil.

"They are two doctors come to give me advice respecting the plague," stammered the porter.

It was now that she first saw the real plagues and ulcers of society.

Here, should the knowing Muse recount the means To stop this growing plague.

At a later period the conger was not eaten from its being supposed to produce the plague.

He was passionately devoted to music and to ladies, and it was indeed from a lady that he had his early death, for he continued to kiss her after she had taken the plague.

In the year 1623 he was made batchelor of divinity, and preferred to a living in Surry called East-Clanden: there he married a wife who proved as great a plague to him as a shrew could be; she was a true Xantippe to our ecclesiastical Socrates, and gave him daily opportunities of puting his patience to the proof; and it is believed by some, that this domestic scourge shortened his days.

It is not curiosity alone, but those other crying sins of ours, which pull these several plagues and miseries upon our heads.

His prayer was answered, and in order to avert the plague Agamemnon sent the lady back to her father not only without ransom but with costly gifts.

His wife sent me out of Yorkshire to tell him that God had blessed him with two sons; he bids a plague of them, a vengeance of her, crosses me o'er the pate, and sends me to the surgeon's to seek salve: I looked, at least he should have given me a brace of angels for my pains. THOM.

20 Know, those who violence pursue, Give to themselves the vengeance due; For in these massacres we find The two chief plagues that waste mankind: Our skin supplies the wrangling bar, It wakes their slumbering sons to war; And well revenge may rest contented, Since drums and parchment were invented.'

The sixth are those aerial devils that corrupt the air and cause plagues, thunders, fires, &c.; spoken of in the Apocalypse, and Paul to the Ephesians names them the princes of the air; Meresin is their prince.

But I do not forget this, and I have tried divers methods which we need not speak of,I who can at will corrupt the air, and cause sickness and storms, raise heavy mists, and create plagues and fires and shipwrecks; yet the life itself I cannot take.

It is an angel of mercy, whose wings are full of balm and dews and refreshings; but when you lay hold of him, pluck his pinions, pen him in a yard, and fall down and worship himthen, with the blessed vengeance of his master, he deals plague and confusion and terror, to stay the idolatry.

96 Verbs to Use for the Word  plagues