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Are there plague-spots of past wickedness on my heart which no after-repentance can wash out?
Armadale 2003
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Commissioners will utilize localities that would otherwise become plague-spots, and nurseries of disease.
Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876 Various
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If there are plague-spots in our population, there are also large tracts of it still sound and healthy.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Large cities may be under some circumstances, according to an often-quoted saying, plague-spots on the body politic, but their growth has generally been commensurate with that of knowledge and order, and indicative of anything but a diseased condition of the national organism.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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"Maudite soit l'indigne main qui jamais soulevera ce voile," but so it is not; and it becomes our duty to look on Charles, and those who were corrupted by his example and his influence, as plague-spots upon the fair brow of our beloved country.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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With plague-spots be punish'd, who that plain should plunder.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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He printed convincing photographs taken in various “dirty cities” that tolerated refuse and other evidences of untidiness on their streets and literally shamed those communities into cleaning up the plague-spots.
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Bok, Edward 1921
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She was sure now that it was her duty to lay bare the secret plague-spots of society, and she was resolved that there should be no doubt as to the purpose of her new book.
Expiation 1908
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Then even the green plague-spots failed, and everything seemed to fall away into a universal blank under the staring sun, as I came, in the great spaces of the circle of a lifeless sea, into the silence of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The New Jerusalem 1905
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She was sure now that it was her duty to lay bare the secret plague-spots of society, and she was resolved that there should be no doubt as to the purpose of her new book.
The Descent of Man and Other Stories Edith Wharton 1899
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