more pestilent
Example Sentences
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When yet if you consult historians, you'll find no princes more pestilent to the commonwealth than where the empire has fallen to some smatterer in philosophy or one given to letters.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
He is more fierce than a wolf; more crafty than a fox; more vain than a peacock; more voracious than a swine; more pestilent than a viper; fiercer than a bear.
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
But the sort of poetry to which your prose corresponds would be Dosiadas's Altar, Lycophron's Alexandra, or any more pestilent pedantry that may happen to exist.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
Than whose doctrine, which is an art of deceiving, nothing can be more pestilent.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Rather bring the more pestilent to submission by gentleness....
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
