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The graves of thousands of English soldiers had been dug in the pestilential morass of Dundalk.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
In the early German invasions of Italy whole armies and camps were swept away by the pestilential climate.
THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, VOLUME I (OF 2)GEORGE ADAM SMITH
No animal can live where its baneful influence extends, and no man durst approach its pestilential shade.
PLANT LORE, LEGENDS, AND LYRICSRICHARD FOLKARD
Even the birds seem to avoid the place as pestilential, not having seen one of any kind so much as flying over.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BRUCE, THE AFRICAN TRAVELLERFRANCIS HEAD
In vain he entreated his wife to remove from the pestilential sphere of action—she would not leave him.
CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL EXPERIENCEJ. G. (JOHN GIDEON) MILLINGEN
Burn up and blow out the confined air, that there shall be no pestilential foes to greet them on their own hearths.
HOPE MILLSAMANDA M. DOUGLAS
It is the same disease, he says, whether from the swamps of Walcheren, or the pestilential shores of Africa.
EPIDEMICS EXAMINED AND EXPLAINED: OR, LIVING GERMS PROVED BY ANALOGY TO BE A SOURCE OF DISEASEJOHN GROVE
There has been of late a good deal of pestilential gossip by luxurious gentlemen at home about the Staff and its work.
LEAVES FROM A FIELD NOTE-BOOKJ. H. MORGAN
The clothes, only that morning taken out of pickle to be aired by the good wife, were pestilential.
THE CATHEDRALJORIS-KARL HUYSMANS
No, not all the gold in the mines would get me to that pestilential plague spot.
THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST, VOL 2 (OF 2)HARRY FURNISS

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