Plague

Plague

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:

    “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)

    “they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
    Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
    Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “A plague o’ these pickle herring!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)