curtains

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From their constant exposure at all seasons, the cattle in Ceylon, both those employed in agriculture and those on the roads, are subject to devastating murrains, that sweep them away by thousands.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

From their constant exposure at all seasons, the cattle in Ceylon, both those employed in agriculture and on the roads, are subject to the most devastating murrains, which sweep them away by thousands.

From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Hence the ancients made a general practice of arresting the progress of murrains among cattle by a separation of the diseased from the healthy. 

From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by Babington, B. G. (Benjamin Guy)

Treat it lightly elsewhere, as an expletive and a mere way of speaking, and it will come to nothing as it deserves, and follow the obsolete "plagues" and "murrains" of our ancestors.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz