plague spot
Example Sentences
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“This is a plague spot, infecting the entire community,” complained William Miller Bowen, a former City Councilman who taught law classes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023
He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long before Waksman began his work on soil, scientists had noted that if a diseased body is buried, the point of burial does not become a plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
An incubus had fallen from him; a plague spot that for the last two or three years had been eating into and embittering his life, and rendering its otherwise achieved success null and void.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
"But none beheld with clearer eye The plague spot o'er her spreading, Nor heard more sure the steps of doom Along her future treading."
From Life's Enthusiasms by Jordan, David Starr
