most pestilent
Example Sentences
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And thus ended my long and persistent pursuit of one of the most pestilent and formidable gangs of pirates that had haunted the Atlantic and West Indian waters for many years.
From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson
Most cunning and most pestilent of men, Nor I, nor any other Argive, saw Thee toiling in that fray, when Trojans strove Fiercely to hale away Achilles slain.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
‘He died by reason of a most pestilent fever,’ answered the wounded man.
From The Red Romance Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
He is a most pestilent, abominable man, Mr. Boothby.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
In the seventeenth century, it was agreed that, next to the Münster Anabaptists, the Quakers were of all dissenting sects the most pestilent and blasphemous.
From Beginnings of the American People by William E. Dodd
