All 7 Uses of
blight
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm.†
Chpt 6
- 'This house depresses and chills one,' said Kate, 'and seems as if some blight had fallen on it.†
Chpt 11 *
- He's so wrapped up in high life, that the least allusion to business or worldly matters—like that woman just now, for instance—quite distracts him; but, as I often say, I think his disappointment a great thing for him, because if he hadn't been disappointed he couldn't have written about blighted hopes and all that; and the fact is, if it hadn't happened as it has, I don't believe his genius would ever have come out at all.'†
Chpt 18
- You, who sent me to a den where sordid cruelty, worthy of yourself, runs wanton, and youthful misery stalks precocious; where the lightness of childhood shrinks into the heaviness of age, and its every promise blights, and withers as it grows.†
Chpt 20
- 'For my sake—for mine, Lenville—forego all idle forms, unless you would see me a blighted corse at your feet.'†
Chpt 29
- There were voices which would have roused him, even then; but their welcome tones could not penetrate there; and he crept to bed the same listless, hopeless, blighted creature, that Nicholas had first found him at the Yorkshire school.†
Chpt 38
- And who but one—and that one he who, but for those who crowded round him then, had never met a look of kindness, or known a word of pity—could tell what agony of mind, what blighted thoughts, what unavailing sorrow, were involved in that sad parting?†
Chpt 55
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage