Plague or The plague is a disease that has a high mortality rate or a calamity with widespread and serious consequences for its victims. The term is particularly used to refer the diseases caused by Yersinia pestis.
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Famous quotes containing the word plague:
“A plague o’ both your houses.
They have made worms’ meat of me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Love is sinister,
is mean to us in separation;
makes our thin bodies thinner.
This fellow Death
lacks mercy
and is good at counting our days.
And Master,
you, too, are subject
to the plague of jealousy
so think:
how could womenfolk,
soft as sprouts,
live like this?”
—Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)
“croppers rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
where sentiment and hatred still held sway
and only bitter land was washed away.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)