10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PESTIFEROUSNESS»
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pestiferousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pestiferousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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King Richard the Second, part one
I will do my best to reform the pestiferousness of the time, and as for example I
have set my mark to the charters, so will 1 set mine eyes to observe these
dangerous cases. / Enter one a- whistling COR I see there are knaves abroad
indeed, sir.
William Shakespeare, Michael Egan, 2006
place, in full vigour. If precluded from immediate ascent it will steal away laterally,
carrying its baleful influence in every direction, poisoning springs, interfering with
all subsoil operations, adding to the pestiferousness of sewers and drainage, ...
3
Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, ...
... alleys would be a boon indeed ; and its machinery, in all its varieties, is, or can
be made, so simple that it is less liable to derangement, and consequent
pestiferousness, than almost any other structure intended for the same purposes.
“It's goin' to be a fearful winter,” said Noah. “All signs p'int to the worst winter on
record since William the Conqueror discovered this continent. Floods — blizzards
— and pestiferousness ... Don't you think you may be scared livin' alone here?
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American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial ...
As one ecologist writes, “The pestiferousness of insectsin colonial timeswas in
direct proportion to the opportunitiesthat colonists gavenatural and imported
insectsto encounter massed stands ofsusceptible plants.” Orchards planted with
apple, ...
James E. McWilliams, 2013
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Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
In George Du Maurier's Trilby (1894), the hypnotizing musician Svengali is
represented as a spider filling Trilby's dreams with images of monstrous
pestiferousness (see figure 1.2). Illustrated covers of the Protocols of the Elders
ofZion depict a ...
Playground and cemetery to celebrities, the Venetian air became fizmous for its
pestiferousness [ouchl], lending itself to slow, artful suicide, like the decadent
com— poser, Aschenbach, in Thomas Mann's classic portrayal of neurotic sexual
...
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Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of ...
The bedouins were particularly wary of infectious and contagious disease and of
towns notorious for their pestiferousness, and they would not go near a place
where an outbreak of disease had been reported.15 Muslims in early Islamic
times ...
Terence Ranger, Paul Slack, 1995
... to every woman, and hehas fooled himself into believing inthem and in her
ever since... like Leo does.” “Foranunmarried manyou betray anamazing intimacy
with the pestiferousness ofwoman,” Dick commented. “Orisit all purely theoretical
?
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The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce
The pestiferousness of people (mostly women) selling raffles or tickets was one
of Bierce's betes noires. He addresses the point in one of his earliest articles, "
Concerning Tickets," Californian 7, No. 32 (28 December 1867): 8. 598) SFE (30
...
Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, 2000
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PESTIFEROUSNESS»
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pestiferousness is used in the context of the following news items.
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How often do we hear of people's lives being made a misery by the pestiferousness of trolls, when the obvious remedy is to withdraw from ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
