"They would have left us alone," Beric said bitterly, "if it had not been that you made yourselves scourges to the country, pillaging and ravaging the villages among the hills and slaying innocent people."
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
One of the principal scourges has been the so-called black-head disease and this has destroyed the industry in many areas.
"A Living from the Land"
William B. Duryee
On his recovery he proceeded to North Carolina and was commissioned a Brigadier General of the militia and became one of the severest scourges the enemy had to encounter.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson