Daniel Defoe

Armed

A distemper eminently armed from heaven.

Article

This last article will hardly be believed.

Assuage

The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage.

Banter

We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.

Big

I talked big to them at first.

Carcass

This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads.

Checkerwork

How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.

Dumb

Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.

Fact

I do not grant the fact.

Feed

Her kid . . . which I afterwards killed because it would not feed.

Hasten

I hastened to the spot whence the noise came.

Infection

There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection.

And that which was still worse, they that did thus break out spread the infection further by their wandering about with the distemper upon them.

The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London.

Jam

The ship . . . jammed in between two rocks.

Lean-to

The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment.

Lodge

The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.

northmost

Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique.

Pedagogism

Avocations of pedantry and pedagogism.

Propagate

The infection was propagated insensibly.

Purchase

We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda.

Raddle

Raddling or working it up like basket work.

Recover

When I had recovered a little my first surprise.

Snip

The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.

Stop

It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.

Strait

We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.

Stun

William was quite stunned at my discourse.

Young

While the fears of the people were young.