Pestilential Definition

Pestilential Sentence Examples

• And so pestilential was their touch considered that it was a crime for them to walk the common road barefooted.

• Others regard him as a wind-hero, who disperses the pestilential vapours of the fens.

• The wind from the north-west, known as the cers, blows with great violence, and the sea-breeze is often laden with pestilential effluvia from the lagoons.

• The most healthy portions of the territory are in the north and east, embracing the slopes of the Apennines which are watered by the Teverone and Sacco; and the most pestilential is the stretch between the Monti Lepini and the sea.

• These lowland districts are densely forested in the south, except Yucatan, and large areas are covered with streams, swamps and lagoons, the abode of noxious insects, pestilential fevers and dysentery.