pestilential

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Pestilential place, goal of whirlwinds and dust-devils, ankle-deep in desert drift—prototype of Berber in a sandstorm—as comfortless by night as day.

From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel

The Gall is made up into Pills, with Clay, and kept for Use; being given in Pestilential Fevers and the Small-Pox.

From A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc. by Lawson, John

A Pestilential Infection is the Dread of every Place, but especially of all Parts upon the Mediterranean.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

Pestilential Impostumes or Tumours are those that are accompany'd with a Fever, Swooning, Head-ach, and Faintness: They usually arise in the time of a Plague or Pestilence, and are contagious.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Pestilential marshes are drained, plagues are checked, and disasters averted. 

From War of the Classes by London, Jack