The man led the way into a small room, foul and pestilential in its closeness.
Even as it struggled in through the crevices and cracks of that old bag, it was like a breath of Paradise, after the vile, pestilential atmosphere of that room!
So I left him to himself, and he lived on in his pestilential little hole, alone--lived a life more squalid every day.
The South African Dutch would not submit to being ruled any longer by the pestilential English.
Pity that he could not forge a chain which would for ever restrain the murderous hands of the Arabs and half-caste Portuguese, who, for ages, have blighted his land with their pestilential presence!
Others, under the intense dread of flagellation, made the attempt, and staggered on a short distance, only to fall and be left behind in the pestilential swamp, where rank reeds and grass closed over them and formed a ready grave.
The 16th New Hampshire, however, had suffered so severely during its six week's confinement in the heart of the pestilential swamp that it was reduced to a mere skeleton, without strength either numerical or physical.
The ci-devant Comte de Sucy--a pestilential aristo if ever there was one!
How do I know where you come from, and whether you are not some crapulent spy of one of those pestilential committees?
It was I who got information that those pestilential aristos, the Montorgueils, far from having fled the country are in hiding somewhere in my district.
Unfortunately this is an age of grab, and until evolution carries it away, like any other pestilential influence, we must all grab, or die in the gutter.
I said that this was an age of grab--and, as far as I can see, it is a pestilential influence that must remain for years to come.
The Untori, in the plague of Milan, in 1630, were persons suspected of anointing doors with pestilential ointment, and thus spreading the disease.
The place was one of the most filthy and pestilential haunts of vice and degradation in the city of London.
Convicted culprits suffered horrible agonies before their death, or were condemned to languish out a miserable life in pestilential dungeons.
These spirits of hell,' as he calls them, indicated a wood in which they declared that they had buried a pestilential liquid intended to be used for smearing houses.
The army of Frederic encamped at Brundusium; but a pestilential disease having made its appearance among them, their departure was delayed for several months.
Again, a pestilential disease made its appearance, to which many hundreds fell victims.
Unwholesome food, and the impure air from the neighbouring marshes, engendered pestilential diseases, which carried them off more rapidly than the arrows of the enemy.
The saddest part of the story will be soonest forgotten--the frightful consumption of human life in those damp and pestilential jungles.
A Livarot was swarming with life; and in a fragile box behind the scales a Gerome flavoured with aniseed diffused such a pestilential smell that all around it the very flies had fallen lifeless on the gray-veined slap of ruddy marble.
On moonless nights they would darken and turn into stagnant lakes of black and pestilential water.
As the three women stood there, taking leave of each other, the odour of the cheeses seemed to become more pestilential than ever.
The gloomy shade reeked with close, oppressive heat, a clammy dankness and pestilential sweat, impregnated with the coarse aroma of scented wood and malodorous flowers.
But in the blazing June afternoons a reeking stench arose, and the atmosphere became heavy with a pestilential haze.
If the senhors ever come back," he added darkly, for he knew the effect of the pestilential climate upon unseasoned Europeans.
It is only at night that the pestilential mists are really dangerous.
Resolved, That we will resist, even unto death, all the attempts of this Society to transport us to the pestilential shores of Liberia.
We need scarcely follow Selous' wanderings in the pestilential climate of the Zambesi valley during the next few months.
Here Selous met Mr. and Mrs. Coillard, who did so much for this country and who survived the pestilential climate for many years.
But its effects still lingered in them, and it was all about them with its pestilential miasma.
But this loving Christ goes down, down, down into the thickest, most pestilential atmosphere, reeking with sin and corruption, and stretches out a rescuing hand to the most abject and undermost of all the victims.
In the first place, the pestilential disease, or plague, seized upon the city, and ate up all the flower and prime of their youth and strength.
He likewise about this time lost one of his sons, whom he had brought with him, of the same pestilential fever which hurried Ponce de Leon into the grave.
The liberties which Cortes granted to all those who built houses in Mexico, drew such vast crowds to the spot, that pestilential diseases broke out, which carried off numbers of human beings.
Every night the spectres of those whose tombs had been profaned manifested themselves, to the affright of the soldiers on guard; while the judgment of the gods was manifested in a violent pestilential distemper.
It appears that immediately after the conquest of Gela and Kamarina, the Carthaginian army was visited by a pestilential distemper, which is said to have destroyed nearly the half of it, and to have forbidden future operations.
The poisonous air, exhaled from rank jungle and stagnant water, had compelled them to remove to the neighbouring haven of Panama; and the Red Indians had been contemptuously permitted to live after their own fashion on the pestilential soil.
The graves of thousands of English soldiers had been dug in the pestilentialmorass of Dundalk.
But, even in those months, the pestilentialinfluence of a tropical sun, shining on swamps rank with impenetrable thickets of black mangroves, began to be felt.
Though the sky was freckled with stars, their light was dimmed by the dull atmosphere that prevailed, for the place was pestilential and deadly.
This tract is not even a sheep-walk, and although in mid-winter the sportsman may venture in pursuit of the wild duck or the mallard, the pestilential atmosphere produced by summer heat makes the spot a desert.
On his arrival the galleons unloaded their treasure, and to prevent them from sailing the fleet lay off that pestilential coast until both the ships and their crews were desolated.
