However, as the parents of any small child know, it is the young who bring pestilence into the home.
He also argued that "the curse that Noah cast on his grandson, Canaan, spills over on the African continent, hence the famine, pestilence, disease, ethnic wars!"
An island-full of identical individuals could be wiped out by an infection, just as entire crops of genetically identical plants may succumb to plague and pestilence.
The most effective way to generate terror in the minds of Americans and keep the media focused on the issue, is through threats of plague and pestilence.
Neither the legal details of the sequester nor the practical work of reforming government are as interesting to the media as Mr. Obama's invocations of plagues and pestilence.
Speculators circle oil and gold like buzzards sniffing financial pestilence.
True, it is more difficult to operate in hot climates than in temperate ones, and disease and pestilence do nothing for labour productivity, but these are hardly spellbinding insights.
Since January, Mozambique and Madagascar have been deluged by floods, famine has started to reappear in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe has succumbed to government-sponsored thuggery, and poverty and pestilence continue unabated.
"You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday, " Cpl.
Simon's fact-filled books and essays convincingly ridiculed these heirs of Reverend Thomas Malthus, an 18th-century economist who wrote a widely read tract predicting pestilence and famine as population growth outstripped the capacity to grow food.
With the plethora of paper currency in 1791 appeared the first evidences of that cancerous disease which always follows large issues of irredeemable currency, a disease more permanently injurious to a nation than war, pestilence or famine.
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