plague spot

The Louvre quarter, so close to brilliance and luxury, was a squalid plague-spot, that has since been thoroughly cleansed.

This pestilential plague spot, into which it was hardly safe to venture, was done away with in the years 1890-95.

It was when I saw this that it came on me in full force to know what an isolated plague spot a common lodging-house is.

This is verily the plague-spot; centre of the universal Social Gangrene, threatening all modern things with frightful death.

As we passed on we skirted the French camp, and scanned the remaining occupiers—now reduced to a handful—of this plague-spot.