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So I explained to him that crows were outside of the pale of the law; that they not only were a pest to the farmers but destroyed the eggs and young of singing birds, in fact, they were bold, black robbers, whose livery betokened their evil deeds. This evidently interested him, and he finally said with a laugh: "If that is the case, we will give you and Charlie a commission to exterminate them."
Lieverlé, in a high state of enthusiasm and excitement, took bounds sometimes as high as our horses' backs, and I could not but tremble at the thought that when we came up at last with the Pest he might tear her in pieces before we could prevent him. But the old woman gave us all the trouble she could; on every hill she doubled, at every hillock there was a false track.
"Pest! and already he hath been searching for the thing yonder; and I have brooded over it night and day, like a hen over a chalk egg, only that the egg does not snap off the hen's claws, as that diabolism would fain snap off my digits. But the war will carry Hastings away in its whirlwind; and, in danger, the duchess is my slave, and will bear me through all.
“Pest take you,” cried Cimon; “you say Eleusis because there is Hermione. But make this day-dreaming end ere you come to grips with Lycon.” “He will awaken,” smiled Themistocles. Then, with another gracious nod to Simonides, the statesman hastened after Leonidas, leaving the three young men and the poet to go to Glaucon’s tent in the pine grove.
But after all, it is probable that this highly destructive animal, and great pest to the farmer, might be most readily exterminated by parishes uniting for the purpose, and raising certain sums of money to be applied in this way, under the direction of a proper person who is fully acquainted with the business.
The Canaries and their free ports, which are different from 'free trade, have set the best example; and they have made great progress while the Madeiras have stood still, or rather have retrograded. The Funchal custom-house is a pest; the import charges are so excessive that visitors never import, and for landing a single parcel the ship must pay high port-charges where no port exists.
Pest is on one bank and Buda on the other, beside a wooded hill climbing steeply up to the old citadel, somewhat as the west bank of the Hudson climbs up to Storm King. I first came on the Danube at Budapest in the evening after dinner and saw, close in front of me, what looked to be some curious electric-light sign.
We can hardly blame them; for, in their eyes, Rousseau appeared as a kind of mad dog a pest to society, deserving of no quarter. They did not realize they could not that beneath the meanness and the frenzy that were so obvious to them was the soul of a poet and a seer.
Valerius Gratus can tell you who our enemy was, and when our imprisonment began. I cannot. See to what we have been reduced oh, see, and have pity!" The air was heavy with the pest and the smoke of the torches, yet the Roman called one of the torch-bearers to his side, and wrote the answer nearly word for word.
"He will live," she said. "I am here." "It is the pest!" muttered the Sister. Lorraine glided into the hall and unclosed the door of the silent room. He opened his eyes. "There is no death!" she whispered, her face against his. "There is neither death nor sorrow nor dying." The clamour in the street died out; the wind was still; the pest flag under the window hung motionless.
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