plague spot

Save for such plague spots as you found, this is a fair land.

An angel points to the plague spot, the attribute of the deadly disease.

Even the Yankees admitted that it was a plague spot and should be wiped out, but they took no steps in this direction.

Conrad admitted that the halving was a "plague spot" in the novel.

A good three-quarters of my own little plague spots were end-of-season ones.'

Rocks broke through the turf like plague spots breaking through the skin of the world.

Was I breaking out with bubonic plague spots?

Conrad himself recognized the flaw, calling the cleavage between the two parts "the plague spot" of the novel.

I still recall how the freckles were suddenly as dark as plague spots in that ashen face.

Tilden's eyes begin, ever so slightly, to glitter while in each cheek a touch of pink suddenly appears like a plague spot.

The plague spots were like the places marked on antique maps - Terra Incognita.

Bubonic plague spots don't move.

"A plague spot demanding excision," the Metropolitan Board of Health declared in 1866, launching a campaign to clean up the market.

"The West Indies must be the plague spot of the world," muttered Buckner, a blur on his blankets.

'Those are not plague spots.'

'Did you think,' he observed, 'that the United States Army would leave a plague spot like that unwatched?'

In him was only the compulsion to move ahead, seek that will which lay behind the machines, behind this plague spot that sickened Janus.

It was probably the one beginning: "What plague spot or bacilli were gnawing at the heart of this metropolis and bringing it on bended knee?"

The woman had been the plague spot of Lower Carmody and Carmody Harbour for a generation.

Accordingly she began to wring her hands in an excess of terror, and exclaimed in tones of piercing anguish,-- "It is the fatal plague spot!

Just as that other wood had been a plague spot of evil, so here was a kind of benediction, as if this had been a source of good.

- the kind of thing that by devious, unexpected, truly diabolical ways causes me to run up against men with soft spots, with hard spots, with hidden plague spots, by Jove!

The old republics were more despotic and exclusive in their separation of the different grades than modern monarchies; and in the most enlightened, that of Greece, the plague spot of slavery was found.

For twenty years afterwards Chillicotheans attributed the chills and fever and the shaking ague to the overgrowth in the park, and every epidemic of malaria was attributed to the area, considered a plague spot.