An encouraging example is afforded by the remarkable fact that malaria, which was once rife in certain districts of England, has now died out, although the Anopheles maculipennis mosquito still exists there.
They were still rife in Antioch in 260.
As the queen's reign drew to its close, rumours were rife on the great subject of the succession to the throne.
The commercial and financial evils rife under the last kings of the Aviz dynasty were now repeated.
While revolution prevailed in the city, robbery was rife in the province of Yezd; and from Kazvin the son of Au Mirza otherwise called the zulus-sultan, the prince-governor of Teheran, who disputed the succession of Mahommed Shah, came forth to contest the crown with his cousin, the heir-apparent.