And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places andpestilences and famines and terrors from heaven: and there shall be great signs.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places.
We are informed by historians that dreadful pestilences and famines did prevail and in some places nearly depopulated the country, and that the remaining inhabitants could not make head against the beasts that multiplied in the land.
Famines and pestilences may have occurred many times without forming a part of the Apocalyptic vision.
Volumes have been written giving perfectly authentic histories of wars, famines, andpestilences that followed the appearance of comets.
Plagues andpestilences now and again desolated the whole land, and Norfolk and Norwich did not escape the ravages of diseases emphatically named the “Black Death.
Just as if there were not pestilences and destructions enough besides, which threatened us on every hand.
Therefore those who will consider themselves the most righteous among us, these are the pestilences and the persecutors of the Church.
Great as the mortality was during this affliction, the history of various other pestilences in foreign countries presents as melancholy a result.
In regard to the influence of medicine on population, can it be expected, that when the most fatal pestilences do not thin it, the most erroneous medical practice can be more destructive?
The pestilences that visited the Israelites were, however, of a different character.
These pestilences had often saved the city, oftener even than the valour of its citizens; in the times of the first Dionysius, two Phoenician armies in the act of besieging the city had been in this way destroyed under its very walls.
The pestilences were sent by the most merciful gods.
Plagues and pestilences were instrumentalities in the hands of God with which to gain the love and worship of mankind.
Pestilences may strew the earth with corpses of the loved; the survivors may bend above them in agony--yet the placid bosom of heaven is unruffled.
As long as plagues and pestilences could be stopped by prayer, the priest was useful.
From time to time, in the world's history, terrible and mysterious pestilences appear, which defy all calculation as to their cause or probable reappearance.
But are not these pestilences a judgment on the rich, too, in the truest sense of the word?
And yet are not these pestilences a judgment, even on them, for their dirt and profligacy?
The earliest notices we have of Pestilences are contained in Holy Writ.
Experience proves beyond doubt, that certain conditions of atmosphere, of {60} which we are ignorant, favour the growth and increase of pestilencesas they do of all vegetation.
Upwards of two hundred pages are occupied with a chronological "Table of Cosmical Phenomena, Epizootics, Epiphitics, Famines and Pestilences in Ireland" from the earliest times.
There are today, in this twentieth century, two pestilences which could be wiped from the face of the earth.
In all pestilences down to the present time, the Church authorities, instead of aiding and devising sanitary measures, have preached the necessity of immediate atonement for offenses against the Almighty.
Pestilences were taught to be punishments inflicted by God on society for its shortcomings.
Surely it is less often than the pestilences of old which baffled sacrifice and prayer.
There are two pestilences which thus unfortunately involve moral conceptions.
But the most evident and far-reaching results of the series of pestilences occurring through the last half of the fourteenth century were those connected with rural life and the arrangement of classes described in Chapter II.
Fernelius[36] asserts the Rise of several Pestilences from the same Causes: As also does Morellus[37] observe great Malignities to proceed from some Northerly cold Winds.
Population was practically stationary for centuries owing to pestilences and the large proportion of deaths among infants.
When famines or pestilences came, our fathers thought them God's punishment for sin.
We are not resigned to pestilences and already have plans drawn up to make the yellow fever germ "as extinct as the woolly rhinoceros.
They persuaded themselves that the earthquakes, inundations andpestilences were attributable to it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pestilences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
