most pestilent
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Most cunning and most pestilent of men, Nor I, nor any other Argive, saw Thee toiling in that fray, when Trojans strove Fiercely to hale away Achilles slain.
From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders
Much of his early writing has encouraged among the modern youth that most pestilent of all popular tricks and fallacies; what is called the argument of progress.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Is there no lesson in the fact that she, nurtured in every luxury, braves the wildest day of winter in her mission of charity?—that the most squalid misery, the most pestilent disease never deterred her?
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
"He is the son of Caboche, the head of the flayers, one of the most pestilent villains in the city."
From At Agincourt by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
‘He died by reason of a most pestilent fever,’ answered the wounded man.
From The Red Romance Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
