pestilence

We take our pets, pests and pestilence with us wherever we go, and we go everywhere.

This notion of pestilence as a “great equalizer” has remained in vogue ever since plague pop culture began.

In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine.

In the meantime, I do kind of hope he wins Iowa, so that he can spread some of that pestilence around the GOP.

The coded “proofs” are everywhere: Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and pestilence.

Cats, the Times told us, are a pestilence akin to gypsy moths and kudzu.

I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

Only in the sensational moments of famine, flood or pestilence was a general social effort called forth.

There is still mademoiselle, with her new-formed friends in Paris—may a pestilence blight them all!

And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence.

But even an age of war and pestilence could be observed without torment from behind the protective shields of the Time Machine.