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The belief was well rooted, he added by way of instance, that any one who sat on a yule-log would pay in his person for his temerity either with a dreadful stomach-ache that would not permit him to eat his Christmas dinner, or would suffer a pest of boils.
The prohibitory measures of a despotic government could not annihilate this intellectual trade, nor could bigotry devise an effective quarantine to exclude the religious pest which lurked in every bale of merchandise, and was wafted on every breeze from East and West. The edicts of the Emperor had been endured, but not accepted.
"Almost any knight feels brave and self-satisfied when he has had a good supper of venison." The king asked what the conversation was about, and Sir Ivaine repeated the story of his adventure, adding: "And, Sir King, I crave your permission to set forth to-morrow to slay this Black Knight who is a pest in the land."
She snapped a dimpled pink thumb and forefinger at the whole exhibit, made a face at the skinniest one of all, and then sneaked casually into Bill's arms. "Nice, nice," she cooed, patting his mastoid process. "Run along now, and I'll plan my party." "That Boddy woman," remarked Beer, as she dressed Warble; "she is a pest a pill! Wait, Maddum, I beg you! I've only rouged one of your cheeks!"
Goldsmith like Steele, had the Irish reverence for pure womanhood, and this reverence made him shun as a pest the vulgarity and coarseness in which contemporary novelists, like Smollett and Sterne, seemed to delight.
The court is adjourned for three days, Queen Catherine having demanded that time to prepare her allegations, and the delay has been granted her." "Pest on it! the delay is some trick of your crafty and double-dealing master," cried Will Sommers. "Were I the king, I know how I would deal with him." "What wouldst thou do, thou scurril knave?" cried Patch angrily.
Real men and women are seldom controlled for twenty-four hours by the same motives or principles. If my friend is mean to-day, let me not doubt his generosity to-morrow. Let me joyously believe in it when the morrow comes. What a pest is the re-appearance in us of discarded conclusions!
"You must sign deeds whereby you undertake to surrender to the children of your late sister the estates of Zôldhalom and Orökvar bequeathed to them by your father." "Why, they are the best paying properties of all." "Then pay them the value of the estates in cash." "That would seriously inconvenience me." "Then make over your houses in Vienna and Pest."
Upon the banks of some of the South-American rivers, life is almost unendurable on account of this pest the "plaga de mosquitos," as the Spaniards term it while upon other streams in the very same latitude musquitoes are unknown. These streams are what are termed "rios negros," or black-water rivers a peculiar class of rivers, to which many tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco belong.
When Red Eve and I met, Murgh had been with her and promised that she would recover and be strong," answered Hugh bravely, although there was a note of terror in his voice. "Red Eve has other foes in Avignon besides the pest," muttered Grey Dick, adding: "still, let us have faith; it is a good friend to man. Did not yonder Helper chide us for our lack of it?"
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