Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestiferousness
Literary usage of Pestiferousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"... interfering with all subsoil operations, adding to the pestiferousness of
sewers and drainage, and working its own mischief wherever it finds an outlet. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1846)
"Never ! better perish at once than expose them to its baneful pestiferousness.
Fool that I was to think one magnanimous thought could actuate your base ..."
3. The Companion by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"In manifest pestiferousness, Outside the window,—house between; " Catch me inside
who can," quoth he, " With such a traitorous malady." [TO RE CONTINUED. ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"... or gardener who does not know quack-grass (Agropyrum repens) is to be congratulated.
It easily excels the Canada thistle in general pestiferousness ..."
5. Metaphysics: Or, the Science of Perception by John Miller (1904)
"I am conscious of its pestiferousness as an evil. If that be ill-desert, then I
have a sense of it. But that it deserves punishment as a thing consciously ..."
6. A Colonial Witch: Being a Study of the Black Art in the Colony of Connecticut by Frank Samuel Child (1897)
"While it was never considered that Satan would humble himself to the insignificance
and pestiferousness of a mosquito, yet it was conceded that he might ..."
7. Weeds of the Farm and Garden by Louis Hermann Pammel (1911)
"... among those species that live from year to year, the size of the root becomes
an index of the persistency and pestiferousness of the plant. ..."
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