How To Use murrain In A Sentence
- What the murrain is the matter now — Arc yoir not aQiam*d, wife, to dcficoy things wilfully thus — when thou knoweft how chargeable necefiaries arc Begone Jeremy, and mind the fliop. A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments, Performed on ...
- Crop failures in 1315, 1316, and 1321, largely due to exceptionally wet summers, overlapped with catastrophic losses of animals as disease - ‘murrain’ - devastated the nation's sheep flocks between 1313 and 1317 and its cattle 1319-21.
- The disease was called murrain or distemper, and its malignity known, but not for a century was the cause ascertained and direct effort made for cure and eradication. A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913
- He told him of the plague of the first born, of darkness, of hail and birds, lice, frogs, flies, the plague of blood, the plague of murrain - one plague for each day.
- That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had. The White Company
- Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of Ulysses
- Egyptian cattle suffered a "murrain" -- with no apparent cause other than a divine curse. Kevin Smith
- That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had. The White Company
- That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had. The White Company
- “A murrain on thee, thou lazy losel!” said Rudolph — “Thou art the only sluggard of thy kyn.” Anne of Geierstein
