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plagued

To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.

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Poetry examples for “plagued”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

So when your slave, at some dear idle time,
(Not plagued with headaches, or the want of rhyme)
Stands in the streets, abstracted from the crew,

If we are wronged, why we can right ourselves;
If we are plagued and pestered with a fool
That will not let us be, nor leave us room

Which way the foul stream flows,
More harden'd the more plagued with fly and frog!
How should sad Exile sing in such a Land?

And then there were the leaves that plagued him so!
The brown, thin leaves that on the stones outside

And seals the doom of those foul pagan pests
That long have plagued our land.

Should rule on any thing beneath a throne;
Or ere see Judah plagued or robbed of health,
By that unbounded thing a Commonwealth.

"I felt, as I in torment lay
'Mid the souls plagued by heavenly power,
An angel touch mine arm, and say:

She might as well herself." But he liked best
To let on he was plagued to death with me:
If anyone had seen me coming home

And some in dreams assured were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so:
Nine fathom deep he had follow’d us

Pass the Door of Birth again,
And are plagued by crowds, until
They've the passion to escape.'