His legs looked as though they had been consumed by a form of the plague.
In the case of Surat, the trigger was, of all things, an outbreak of the plague in 1994.
Some believe that these events may give a clue to the origin of the plague of frogs recorded in the Book of Exodus.
One other report from old London is Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year, " a fictional, though chillingly persuasive, account of the metropolis under siege from the Great Plague in 1665.
Ambling with the bluesman's toothache in his heel, he describes "cities of the plague, " plots surprise showdowns in which he slaughters sleeping opponents, ponders craven human nature ("They will tear your mind away from contemplation") and scans the skies for hints of geopolitical turmoil.
Faraone's son Osiride wants to keep the Israelites around and continue his clandestine love affair with the Israelite Elcia, so he urges Faraone to break his promise and ends up a casualty of the last plague, the Slaying of the First-Born.
Despite the escalating demand in South Africa, the industry suffers from several of the handicaps that plague so many of the country's businesses.
The new book briefly returns to "year zero" of the global plague.
Hepatitis C is the stealth plague of the baby-boom generation.
The Kazakh government has been accused of reacting slowly to the plague, which is reported to have started in the Pavlodar region, in the northern part of the country.
Instead of combating the in-store plague of smartphone-enabled comparison shoppers with mobile calls-to-action, the retailers we studied are currently ceding that ground to third-party apps and competitors.
Created by Ubisoft, ZombiU is a survival-horror, first-person shooter game that puts players in the shoes of a human survivor in the middle of a terrifying plague that has infected modern-day London and turned everyone into flesh-eating zombies.
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They have the highest levels of female employment in the world and far fewer of the social problems that plague Britain and America.
Suspicions are that the dig has revealed a "plague pit" -- one of many mass graves used to dispose of the bodies of those who succumbed to the Black Death, or bubonic plague, in the 14th century.
How then does the country get the doctors and scientists it needs to develop the drugs and medical technology that may provide early detection or a cure for cancer, diabetes or the hundreds of other maladies that plague the world?
But top of the list, of course, is Crazy Frog, whose plague on commercial breaks in the early part of the year had almost biblical proportions.
When we think of the problems that plague the globe, arsenic poisoning is not one that springs readily to mind.
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But, according to biologists, the chief killer of prairie dogs is the sylvatic plague.
Given the explosion in the incidence of diabetes that continues to plague the United States, such a combination could prove to be a very important medicine.
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The article, however, had no mention of the many idealists working to solve problems in health, education, climate change and poverty that plague much of the globe.
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Equally important, such directives will relieve family members of the guilt and angst that can plague them as they try to decide the best course of treatment for their loved ones.
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On the top of the agenda: battling the diseases that plague developing nations.
He makes light of the difficulties, delays and discomforts of voyaging through a part of the world where bureaucrats and bedbugs plague the traveller.
The Last of Us, the highly anticipated title for the PS3, will show the world that a plague of endoparasitoid Cordyceps is every bit as deadly as a zombie one.
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Compliance will be tricky due to the extensive loopholes and fraud that plague the tracking of U.S. slaughter horses.
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The grants, from units of the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health, are to develop antibodies for diagnosing and treating anthrax and inhalation plague--two diseases in the crosshairs of biodefense efforts.
Of course, with big diseases come the sorts of delays that often plague big pharmaceutical firms.
The plague of lists has grown much more fearsome in the age of the Internet.
The owner and the architects faced more than their share of the serious problems that plague restoration today.
Scientists hope to extract a DNA profile that could be used to study the development of plague since then.
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