Both Uses of
blight
in
Moby Dick
- But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.†
Chpt 130-132
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage