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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All over the world, life has been swept away, as if by some murderous pestilence .
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And now that the war is going worse than ever, the pestilence has emerged into noonday.
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David is compelled to choose between three classical punishments - disasters, famine or pestilence .
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He was the one who released famine, pestilence and all the other evils into the world.
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In return Apollo sent a pestilence , and Poseidon the sea serpent.
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It has inspired legions of compassionate men and women to minister to the needy in times of famine, war and pestilence .
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To the disorder caused by pestilence , other pressures were added in the late fourteenth century.