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:

    “You taught me language, and my profit on’t
    Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
    For learning me your language!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)

    “A plague o’ both your houses.
    They have made worms’ meat of me.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)