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They could not stop the eleven million plague-stricken wretches, fleeing from the one city of Peking to spread disease through all the land.
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And not all would he have found fleeing from plague-stricken Peking, for behind them, by hundreds of thousands of unburied corpses by the wayside, he could have marked their flight.
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In retreat to Egypt, he ordered 800 of his own plague-stricken French soldiers to be poisoned, in order not to suffer delay.
City of Peace—and War Norman Lebrecht 2011
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In futuristic New Beijing, a plague-stricken metropolis populated by humans, androids and cyborgs, our teenage heroine works as a mechanic.
Prince Charming Among the Cyborgs Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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In this story, a young woman stows away on a spaceship carrying desperately needed vaccine to a plague-stricken planet.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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Rotting and plague-stricken corpses once were catapulted over besieged city walls.
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At the start of his new biography of Caravaggio, the most skilfully carnal artist of the Counter-Reformation, Andrew Graham-Dixon carefully shows how the lurid elaborations of this theory in the plague-stricken Milan of the late 1500s sowed the visual and psychological seeds of a career spent making the dramatis personae of Catholicism seemreal? gloriously, horribly, movingly real.
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon Neil Bartlett 2010
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Remember that this statement was made 300 years after the myth of bacteriological warfare, had spread through plague-stricken London!
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On the one hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth.
Les Miserables 2008
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Remember that this statement was made 300 years after the myth of bacteriological warfare, had spread through plague-stricken London!
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