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pestilent
1. We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her because the pestilent creature is your daughter
2. done of late through the pestilent behaviour of those who are unworthily placed in authority
3. 61 At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him, to accuse him, but
4. 21 If therefore there be any pestilent fellows, that have fled from their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest,
5. means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant
6. with varied tortures; 22 therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch
7. 61 At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel men of a wicked life assembled themselves against him to accuse him but the king would not hear them
8. 1 Moreover Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea to Simon the priest and prince of the Jews and to all the people; 2 The contents of which were these: King Antiochus to Simon the high priest and prince of his nation and to the people of the Jews greeting: 3 Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers and my purpose is to challenge it again that I may restore it to the old estate and to that end have gathered a multitude of foreign soldiers together and prepared ships of war; 4 My meaning also being to go through the country that I may be avenged of them that have destroyed it and made many cities in the kingdom desolate: 5 Now therefore I confirm to you all the oblations which the kings before me granted you and what ever gifts besides they granted
9. 21 If therefore there be any pestilent fellows that have fled from their country to you deliver them to Simon the high priest that he may punish them according to their own law
10. 22 But as though transformed by fire into immortality he nobly endured the rackings saying: 23 Imitate me O brethren nor ever desert your station nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honourable fight of religion; 24 by which means our just and paternal Providence becoming merciful to the nation will punish the pestilent tyrant
11. 20 O that bitter and yet not bitter day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt and to all his torments! 21 He pierced the balls of their eyes and cut out their tongues and put them to death with varied tortures; 22 therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch
12. However, there are many pestilent agents which are not affected by cooking whatever dexterous it was, as well as Cysticercosis has no solution other than the surgical operation, though the best of these solutions is only to avoid eating the meat of swine
13. Kathy, leaning heavily onto her crutches, managed to grin at the pregnant woman, in spite of the intense (excruciating) pain throbbing in her injured ankle from standing and walking on it, as she agreed wholeheartedly with the other woman’s sisterly candor about pestilent brothers
14. A hope -where none had existed before- sprung up and began to grow inside her heart, that maybe - just maybe Falcon had begun to notice her as a woman and not as his kid sister’s pestilent best friend
15. I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours
16. With pestilent speeches of his father's death;
17. A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne