What is "plagues"

Usage examples of "plagues".

She had heard of plagues back on Earth, but it was almost three centuries since the last outbreak.

Each had presumably decided they had lost enough people to the plagues already.

Dedelphi, an embattled, ecologically threatened race, signed a treaty with the Bioverse Corp in the hopes that Bioverse would be able to reverse the ecological damage on their planet and stop the horrible engineered plagues that had been unleashed during a recent war.

But there the comparison to the Great Plagues or Black Death ceased, for while gentry and yeomanry out on the land had sickened and often died with their families and households, the bulk of the humbler sorts had been unaffected or not much affected or afflicted by the sweeping catastrophe.

All these weeks, carrying a spy with us, confiding in him all our plans for overcoming the blights and plagues of the farm provinces - no!

Tunigorn tells us that the Metamorph Y-Uulisaan has confessed, under interrogation by Deliamber and Tisana, that the responsibility for the plagues lies with the Metamorphs.

I know that the Metamorphs now have begun to launch not only agricultural plagues into Zimroel but also a horde of ghastly new animals that create terrible havoc and fear.

And I ask you to cease spreading these plagues, and to give me your support when I meet with the Coronal.

Piurifayne, so that we may prevent the Metamorphs from exporting any further plagues and other horrors.

I mean to march down into Piurifayne by way of the Steiche, while you go around from the western side, and we will squeeze the rebels between us, and take this Faraataa and bring a halt to his loosing of monsters and plagues against us.

Releasing the blights and plagues into the farming districts - bringing agriculture into collapse over such a wide region - the famine, the panic, the mass migrations - yes, all according to plan.

Nevertheless, the presence of the threat, coupled with the specter of past plagues, mobilized preventive measures all over the peninsula.

We know nothing of these alien vessels you call Chenzeme We do know plagues, but they are ancient and impotent.