plague
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This all sounds scary, understandably, as it’s the PLAGUE.
From Slate • May 8, 2019
That word, as yet it was not more to her, was PLAGUE.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
And he who wants a fortune may find one even in the PLAGUE.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
Just as he reached the door, a burst of loud laughter, evidently proceeding from a numerous party, arose from within, and a harsh voice was heard chanting the following strains: SONG OF THE PLAGUE.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Thus when the PLAGUE, upborne on Belgian air, Look'd through the mist and shook his clotted hair, O'er shrinking nations steer'd malignant clouds, 90 And rain'd destruction on the gasping crouds.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
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A Long Walk to Water
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