At the commencement, there was in England a superabundance of all the necessaries of life; but the plague, which seemed then to be the sole disease, was soon accompanied by a fatal murrain among the cattle.
But that is all over now--a murrain on the nest, and the eyases and their food, washed or unwashed, for it was all anon of cramming these worthless kites that I was sent upon my present travels.
There's no more cure," said he, "for death in a common herd than for the same murrain in an ensign of foot.
Will you please pay me my fare now, Master, since I am a Fellow forsooth, and Murphy's Murrain to you?
There was a considerable silence, during which Kit Bottle looked darkly into the fire, and Marryott muttered several times under his breath, "A murrain on't!
Blackfriars, the past month; and a murrain take me if I know what's afoot of late!
So I burned it at the tavern fire, and wondered what a murrain to do.
In those bellies and mine, and a murrain on such appetites!
Writing about the middle of the nineteenth century, Kemble tells us that the will-fire or need-fire had been used in Devonshire for the purpose of staying a murrain within the memory of man.
Soon afterwards a murrain broke out among the cattle of the district and carried off many beasts.
Every fire was put out and a large one lit on the top of the hill, and the cattle driven round it sunwards (dessil), to keep off murrain all the year.
In the Isle of Man the practice of burning cattle alive in order to stop a murrain seems to have persisted down to a time within living memory.
Again, writing in the year 1862, Sir Arthur Mitchell tells us that "for the cure of the murrain in cattle, one of the herd is still sacrificed for the good of the whole.
In Silesia, also, need-fires were often employed for the purpose of curing a murrain or preventing its spread.
Again, during the prevalence of a murrain about the year 1629, certain persons proposed to stay the plague with the help of a celebrated "cureing stane" of which the laird of Lee was the fortunate owner.
But we return to the beach at Acre, and the poor Crusaders, dying as of murrain there.
The year 1274 was the beginning of so exceptional a murrain of sheep that it deserves mention here, although murrains do not come within the scope of the work.
A murrain occurred the same year; at one place five thousand sheep died in the pasture and were left to putrefy[277].
Murrain (or morena in Latin chronicles) is probably the modern survival of "mure" or "murre.
In that mortality, many of the chief thanes died, and there was a murrain of cattle, with a scarcity of food in Ireland.
Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.
Exodus Chapter 9 The fifth plague is a murrain among the cattle.
Now a murrain seize thee and thy news, thou scurvy dog," quoth the Tinker, "for thou speakest but ill of good men.
I have won to temperance, and so Carlo growleth, "A murrainon thee, spoil-sport!
A murrain on thy tongue,' snapped he, 'that calls me one!
Why, a murrain to thee, goodman Grim, thy fire is colder than my halidome; the sun is so high it puts it out, I reckon.
Thou hast told him, then,--and a murrain light on thee!
Having had timely Notice of this Lues from our Neighbours, we made such Provision against the invading Disease, that very few of those who were infected by the Murrain died.
Wincler, Chief Physician of the Prince Palatine, gives us the following Account of the Murrain in Switzerland, and the Method of its Cure, in a Letter to Dr.
Pray heaven that they may not take it into their heads to sacrifice us too, with a murrain on them!
You have put something worse than a murrain on him, or I am no judge," laughed Dick, a trifle hysterically.
A murrain take you," says the justice, more purple than before, for this was a stab in a tender place.
A murrain upon them, and may they die of a vertigo!
Murrain on you, old Franky, you never let a man speak his mind, and shame the devil.
Why is not the rogue at Oxford, with a murrain on him, instead of lurching about here carrying tales and ogling the maidens?
A murrain carried off several of Harry Vint's cattle; and it then came out that he had purchased six of them on credit, and had been induced to set his hand to bills of exchange for them.
A Hindu cure for the murrain is to hire a man of the Chamar caste, turn his face away from the village, brand him with a red-hot sickle, and let him go out into the jungle, taking the murrain with him.
A murrain on you, may you be afflicted with a pestilent disease.
Nickolsdorf, where the steppe murrain appeared on the 10th of August, is an exquisitely clean village, with well-whitewashed buildings and broad roads, constituting the centre of a thriving agricultural district.
A murrain on those close-fisted curmudgeons, Roger Nowell, Nicholas Townley, and Tom Whitaker.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "murrain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
