most pestilent
Example Sentences
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To his disappointment, he discovered that the only reference in history to an Earl of Saxby made out that particular one to be a most pestilent Roundhead.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
Amjed looked at him with angry eyes and said, 'Why hast thou tarried till now, O most pestilent of slaves?'
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
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
"You and your men are down there associatin' with the most pestilent set of robbers and land-pirates that ever disgraced a civilized country," announced the Colonel.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
And while ye go about to drive your neighbour out of his land, ye must needs first bring into your own land the most pestilent puddle of unthrifts that can be.
From Against War by Desiderius Erasmus
