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- noun Plural form of
murrain .
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Examples
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She gave hopes to women who had been hitherto barren, she sent dreams to reassure jealous old men concerning the fidelity of the young wives whom they had suspected without cause, and she protected the country from plagues, murrains, famines, tempests, and dragons of Cappadocia.
Penguin Island 1909
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She gave hopes to women who had been hitherto barren, she sent dreams to reassure jealous old men concerning the fidelity of the young wives whom they had suspected without cause, and she protected the country from plagues, murrains, famines, tempests, and dragons of Cappadocia.
Penguin Island Anatole France 1884
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Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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Some marked murrains have followed very wet seasons, when the leeches appear in incredible numbers; and the disease in the cattle, described to me by the Lepchas as in the stomach, in no way differs from what leeches would produce.
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But when his sheep are stolen, when murrains smite
Horace Theodore Martin 1862
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From their constant exposure at all seasons, the cattle in Ceylon, both those employed in agriculture and on the roads, are subject to the most devastating murrains, which sweep them away by thousands.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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From their constant exposure at all seasons, the cattle in Ceylon, both those employed in agriculture and those on the roads, are subject to devastating murrains, that sweep them away by thousands.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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a mere way of speaking, and it will come to nothing as it deserves, and follow the obsolete "plagues" and "murrains" of our ancestors.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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It must be rather dull to be witches if you can’t cast murrains on cattle or give your husband warts.”
Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940
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