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God be praised there are such left in England! And yet the rogue is but a pestilent roundhead the more's the pity! Those coward rascals need never have mauled him like that. Yet had the blow gone a little deeper it had been a mighty gain to our side. Out he shall not go till the war be over! It would be downright treason. So ran the thoughts of the marquis as he paced his chamber.
When the French troops entered Spain in 1808 General Canclaux, a friend of the Prince de Conti, brought to the notice of Napoleon that the tiresome formalities insisted on by the pestilent clerks of all nations were observed towards these regal personages.
When he heard her words, he hardened his heart and said to her, "O pestilent baggage, wilt thou bandy words with me?" So saying, he took the whip and brought it down on her back, till she well-nigh fainted.
Finally, they take a vast pride, among other citations, to allege the authority of their respective master, which word they bear as profound a respect to as the Jews did to their ineffable tetragrammaton, and therefore they will be sure never to write it any otherwise than in great letters, MAGISTER NOSTER; and if any happen to invert the order of the words, and say, noster magister instead of magister noster, they will presently exclaim against him as a pestilent heretic and underminer of the catholic faith.
There was a pestilent heresy about, concerning the satisfaction to be derived from a good conscience, as if, anybody ever did anything which was not to be hated, loathed, despised, and condemned. The old minister listened gravely, with an inward smile, and told his deacon that he would attend to his suggestion.
"Tottering, feeble, zig-zag," said a surgeon, speaking of one stricken with the plague. "Her fine open, ivory brow " "Is marked all over with disgusting pustules." "Her breath is " "Oh, her delicious breath!" "Noisome, poisonous, corruption." "In fact, her whole lovely body is a region of " "Pestilent discolorations, and foul sores."
Wherever that belief prevails, novel opinions are felt to be dangerous as well as annoying, and any one who asks inconvenient questions about the why and the wherefore of accepted principles is considered a pestilent person. The conservative instinct, and the conservative doctrine which is its consequence, are strengthened by superstition.
"It may be," said the Abbot, "that Foster will wait for Murray, whose purpose hitherward is but delayed for a short space." "By the rood, he will not," said the Sub-Prior; "we know this Sir John Foster a pestilent heretic, he will long to destroy the church born a Borderer, he will thirst to plunder her of her wealth a Border-warden, he will be eager to ride in Scotland.
Reeve's constant and familiar intercourse with French society had necessarily taught him the opinions so universally held in France, and had persuaded him that the only safe plan for England was to have nothing to do with the pestilent thing.
The defeat of the Persian army at Marathon redoubled the wrath of King Darius against the Athenians. He resolved in his autocratic mind to sweep that pestilent city and all whom it contained from the face of the earth. And he perhaps would have done so had he not met a more terrible foe even than Miltiades and his army, the all-conqueror Death, to whose might the greatest monarchs must succumb.
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