How To Use Murrain In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had.
The White Company
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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
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Egyptian cattle suffered a "murrain" -- with no apparent cause other than a divine curse.
Kevin Smith
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That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had.
The White Company
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That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had.
The White Company
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“A murrain on thee, thou lazy losel!” said Rudolph — “Thou art the only sluggard of thy kyn.”
Anne of Geierstein
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The cattle murrain in Upper Egypt continued to rage, long past the season when it normally abated; virtually all the cattle in Luxor had been infected now and were dead or dying.
The Mistress of Nothing
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There were great murrains, or diseases, of sheep and cattle, which meant that the animals all died, adding to the misery of the starving people.
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That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had.
The White Company
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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
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“A murrain on thee, thou lazy losel!” said Rudolph — “Thou art the only sluggard of thy kyn.”
Anne of Geierstein
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When that nomenclature crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1869, Harper’s Weekly put it that Liverpool was informing the State Department that “a contagion called murrain, or hoof-and-mouth disease, has broken out.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The more mystically-minded clerics and chroniclers may have been confounded in their dire predictions of murrains, pestilence, and the imminent Second Coming.
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The 'murrain' was so deadly to oxen and sheep that, according to Walsingham, dogs and ravens eating them dropped down dead.
A Short History of English Agriculture
