Olaneta, the renegade Argentine, who commanded in Bolivia, had quarrelled with La Serna, whom he regarded as a pestilent liberal and an enemy of the absolute pretensions of the Spanish king.
The clericals regard their opponents as pestilent enemies of religion and order, and the liberals anathematise the ruling party as a reactionary, corrupt, and benighted oligarchy.
But the Roman Jews were merely pestilent heretics.
The news brought him a more complex thrill than that shock of horror at the treacherous persistence of a pestilent heresy which it excited in the breast of his fellow-citizens.
Ecclesiastical tyranny has, for the most part, founded itself on the idea of Vicarianism, one of the most pestilent of the Romanist theories, and most plainly denounced in Scripture.
And he called upon every loyal subject to aid in the extirpation of the pestilent heresy that threatened France with ruin.
It is impossible to keep beyond the reach of the sarcasms and sophisms, the insidious and pestilent teachings, of modern infidelity.
There surely, if anywhere, we shall find political economic truth enshrined in the heart and tariff of the nation, and the pestilent heresies of Protection given up to the ridicule of a wise and discerning community.
On that pestilent and wild Isthmus there had been very little chance to make up for the disadvantages of his youth.
Pizarro sent him on to Panama to work for help, and himself stayed to cheer his men inpestilent Chicama.
Then Ilya the Old Cossáck lifted the pestilent thief from the ground by his yellow curling hair, bound him securely to his stirrup, and went on his way once more.
Nay," said Ilya, "I will sweep away his pestilentbrood and scatter his bones to the winds.
After that he struck off hispestilent head and scattered his bones to the winds.
Ilya of Murom the Old Cossáck," cried the pestilentleader of the Golden Horde.
Open this pestilent door," roared Vasily, "and I will give you as much treasure as you desire in return for the displeasure of your mistress.
He broke in with his pestilent traditions, bound men down to observances concerning flesh-meat, cowls and Masses, and imposed on them his filthy, merdiferous law.
Equally evident, according to the Table-Talk, was the pestilent side of the Mass as a pecuniary concern.
Thou, Nangeza, hast a pestilent tongue and an evil heart; wherefore my servant Untuswa must seek a new wife, for thy place among us shall be empty.
More I cannot say, except that the stranger, entering one of these rooms for the first time, has every sense shocked, and finds it almost impossible to breathe the pestilent atmosphere without being instantly sick.
The gin-palace is heaven to them compared to the hell of theirpestilent homes.
That pestilent fellow, Bunyan, was now once more in his clutches.
Don't you let that amiable and disreputable old vagabond, Debby Blue, or that pestilent rebel, Doctor John Pigeon, stuff your little head with notions.
I see your heart is in the right place, and you have not let them stuff your head with pestilent and plebeian heresies.
If he has promised at all it is to that pestilent fellow at Headford.
That poetry is the nurse of abuse, infecting us with wanton and pestilent desires.
Any sudden rising which might kill or banish the pestilent monk or disperse the troublesome community would naturally find favour in their eyes.
If Luther had fallen into his hands the Curia would no doubt have found some means of letting the pestilent fellow off.
The THING, this pestilent thing was bearded with the semblance of a tangled mass of coarse, grey iron wire.
I say not, my son, that there are not abuses in the Church as well as elsewhere; but these pestilent doctrines lead men to disregard all authority, and to view their natural masters as oppressors.
To deal with 'that pestilent fellow Howe,' to use Macdonald's phrase, was a first charge upon the energies of the government.
On land the Sultan was sweeping all before him; at sea thispestilent Genoese was dragging into servitude all the best mariners who sailed beneath the banner of the Prophet.
Life for the knights of this order was looked at literally with a single purpose--the advancement of Christianity and the downfall of that pestilentheresy which proclaimed that Mahomet was the prophet of God.
Gerard says: "If you do but take a piece of the root, and hold it in your mouth, or chew the same between your teeth, it doth most certainly drive away pestilent aire.
This plant was thought to be of great use in the time of the plague, and thus got the names of Pestilent wort, Plague flower and Bog Rhubarb.