All 3 Uses of
blight
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Depend on my care to see that your youth is not blighted, or suffered to pass away in ungenial solitude; and of this be well assured, that if you love me as a father, I love you as a child.†
Chpt 49-50 *
- His colleagues looked at him, and doubtless pitied his prospects, blighted under the perfumed breath of a woman.†
Chpt 85-86
- All my hopes are blighted, my heart is broken, my life a burden, everything around me is sad and mournful; earth has become distasteful to me, and human voices distract me.†
Chpt 105-106
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage