The existence of blights and mildews of cereals had been observed and recorded in very ancient times, as witness the Bible, where half a dozen references to such scourges occur in the Old Testament alone. [Please select]
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He wears a hairshirt of pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. [Please select]
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Tchernoff was describing the four scourges of the earth exactly as though he were seeing them. [Please select]
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Living largely upon harmful grubs and insects, this bird does an immense amount of good by protecting our forests from insect scourges. [Please select]
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But the greatest scourges of all were the tiny, buzzing mosquitoes, which beset them in great swarms. [Please select]
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5° to 66°--high enough to bring out the black flies (but extremely few mosquitoes) after several days of virtual freedom from these scourges. [Please select]
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Behind the gladiators came mastigophori; that is, men armed with scourges, whose office it was to lash and urge forward combatants. [Please select]
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