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  • While the students did contribute something to the local economy, and they did bring a little life to the otherwise empty streets, they were becoming in the eyes of some people a blight on the landscape with their green hair, their odd clothes, their skateboards, and their tendency to play loud music on their stereos well into the night.†   (source)
  • On land that had once been a shipyard, then a drive-in movie theater, then a flea market, then blight, there were now soft green hills and a Calatrava fountain.†   (source)
  • Neville's childhood had been blighted by Voldemort just as much as Harry's had, but Neville had no idea how close he had come to having Harry's destiny.†   (source)
  • That's when Blight hit the force field.†   (source)
  • All together you are poor, rude, immoral, unintelligent, impoverished, bitter, stubborn, and a blight upon your village and my kingdom.†   (source)
  • But my grandmother was preparing for the moment when he realized that they couldn't grow all together and that some seeds would not come up at certain times, that the fine downy tendrils of cucumber might be abruptly stopped by the thickening underground bosses of carrot and potato, that the parsley might be camouflaged by the more recalcitrant weeds, and bugs that hopped about could blight the tender flowers.†   (source)
  • Five figures wandered slowly over the blighted land.†   (source)
  • We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present.†   (source)
  • When we heard him down there jumped-up and high on the downdraft of a winbumping around jubilantly, making lots of noise—Boris would put down his book and head downstairs, where patiently he stood listening to my dad's boring, card-by-card replay of his evening at the baccarat table, which often segued into excruciating (to me) stories of related triumphs, all the way back to my dad's college days and blighted acting career.†   (source)
  • Middle-America blight.†   (source)
  • When we meet him again, in Oedipus at Colonus, it's many years later, and of course he's suffered greatly, but that suffering has redeemed him in the eyes of the gods, and rather than being a blight on the human landscape, he becomes a favorite of the gods, who welcome him into the next world with a miraculous death.†   (source)
  • It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it—hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction.†   (source)
  • He meant personally to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan, I think, and all other paths ever walked by the blight of mankind.†   (source)
  • His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside.†   (source)
  • The fittings in his house were worn but painstakingly repaired, as was his garden: home to mesquite trees and desert willows and succulent plants that had seen better years, but were still alive and mostly free of blight.†   (source)
  • He passed the spyglass to Dr. Juvenal Urbino, who saw the oxcarts in the cultivated fields, the boundary lines of the railroad tracks, the blighted irrigation ditches, and wherever he looked he saw human bodies.†   (source)
  • Galbatorix is an unnatural blight on the world.†   (source)
  • Out in back is a homely garden that, even now, in mid-April, has root vegetables waiting to be dug—blighted potatoes and yams and tough-skinned carrots and turnips.†   (source)
  • The spent oxygen bottles blighting the South Col have been accumulating since the 1950s, but thanks to an ongoing litter-removal Program instigated in 1994 by Scott Fischer's Sagar matha Environmental Expedition, there are fewer of them up there now than there used to be.†   (source)
  • This sort of person is a blight on good professionalism.†   (source)
  • Even the young seemed blighted—seemed most blighted of all.†   (source)
  • Mesfin seemed to be pointing the cab to the sole house at the end of the street that survived the blight that had felled the others.†   (source)
  • Just what I needed: the dog dies on my watch, thereby officially cementing my status as a complete blight on the household.†   (source)
  • Maybe he didn't notice it as much when he was here, or maybe it was the blight, closing in, that kept him running, and he saw it only in passing.†   (source)
  • The grass, the withering leaves were full of whispering, but the campground was hushed, muffled by their presence, as if blighted.†   (source)
  • It was the rooftop summer, drinks or dinner, a wedged garden with a wrought iron table that's spored along its curved legs with oxide blight, and maybe those are old French roses climbing the chimney pot, a color called maiden's blush, or a long terrace with a slate surface and birch trees in copper tubs and the laughter of a dozen people sounding small and precious in the night, floating over the cold soup toward skylights and domes and water tanks, or a hurry-up lunch, an old friend, beach chairs and takeout Chinese and how the snapdragons smell buttery in the sun.†   (source)
  • First there were the droughts, then a blight...anyone else would take this as a hint to move on, but not Jean-Luc's father.†   (source)
  • They sit on the lake like a blight before the breeze whips them out toward the deep middle.†   (source)
  • She might have once been beautiful, but her pearlescent skin was withered, her seaweed-green eyes were milky with cataracts, and her rippling blond hair was shot through with gray like blight in a wheat field.†   (source)
  • Each one of you has cried for the crop blighted by drought or pest.†   (source)
  • I must go to see her this morning without fail.... What was this blight that had come down over the people she loved?†   (source)
  • He'd come so far he had to believe in something, and so he chose that blighted place clinging to the Braldu Gorge.†   (source)
  • This I had believed with all my being, but now, though still inwardly affirming that belief, I felt a blighting hurt which prevented me from trying further to defend myself.†   (source)
  • If anything, it was reminiscent of motels the world over that blighted the outskirts of cities; commerciality guaranteeing the anonymity of their guests.†   (source)
  • The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted.†   (source)
  • We had not known of plastic when I was a boy, and though it surely improved life in some ways, its presence in Qunu appeared to me to be a kind of blight.†   (source)
  • On the other, there's the blight of unbridled competition.†   (source)
  • But who will remedy the blight of closed hands on the day when all should be openness and light?†   (source)
  • But now that I consider it, you ought to throw them away or destroy them, rather than blighting another.†   (source)
  • But young Welton became a Republican, and by early 1865 he sounded just like an abolitionist when he wrote in joyful anticipation of a restored nation "free free free yes free from that blighting curs Slavery the cause of four years of Bloody Warfare."†   (source)
  • Focus purely on the scenery, which had changed to open countryside now, leaving behind the blighted row houses, leaving behind the station under its weight of roiling dark clouds, and the empty city streets around it, and the narrower streets farther north with the trees turning inside out in the wind, and the house on Bouton Road where the filmy-skirted ghosts frolicked and danced on the porch with nobody left to watch.†   (source)
  • And whether from its fumes or from the blighting of our hopes, my husband began to suffer again from rheumatism, and at the same time the old bouts of fever began.†   (source)
  • A blight on the reputation of the Institute, a living, breathing sacrilege against all the ideals for which this school stands.†   (source)
  • But I am particularly interested in the school business, because it seems to me that the blight can disappear only when there are millions of Coopers.†   (source)
  • It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.†   (source)
  • I never saw such gloom, such despair, such blighted numb solemnity.†   (source)
  • But the congregation prayed mightily every Sunday that this blight on the community would be banished, and one afternoon during an electrical storm, it was.†   (source)
  • Can anyone see the little blighter?†   (source)
  • Like a blighted tree, Reich fell to the ground.†   (source)
  • The scandal blighted her political future.
  • The foreclosures are a blight on the neighborhood.
  • Poor little blighter!   (source)
    blighter = someone who is damaged
  • A blight seemed to have descended on her.   (source)
    blight = something bad
  • Mrs. Lynde says Myrtle Bell is a blighted being.   (source)
    blighted = extensively damaged
  • I asked Ruby Gillis why Myrtle was blighted, and Ruby said she guessed it was because her young man had gone back on her.   (source)
  • But Georgiana had no sooner touched the flower than the whole plant suffered a blight, its leaves turning coal-black as if by the agency of fire.   (source)
    blight = extensive damage (or a disease causing extensive damage)
  • It was his crooked lower-case 'a' that hung the blighter, Inspector.†   (source)
  • It was said that there were great opportunities for younger railroads in the blighted areas.†   (source)
  • I think it's one of those blighted areas now.†   (source)
  • Only after the second helping of goat did Edmund say, "Where's that blighter Eustace?†   (source)
  • The Circle had taken over fifty buildings in the vicinity, transforming blighted warehouses into climbing gyms, schools, server farms, each structure bold, unprecedented, well beyond LEED.†   (source)
  • Zaphod glanced away from the mirror screens which presented a panoramic view of the blighted landscape on which the Heart of Gold had now landed.†   (source)
  • "Exactly where we were, I think ..." said Trillian, as all about them the mirrors suddenly showed them an image of the blighted landscape of Magrathea, which still scooted along beneath them.†   (source)
  • It is instantly sensed by the congested open market that runs along the street in front of the row of dark run-down flats — shacks haphazardly perched on top of one another giving the impression that at any moment the entire blighted complex will collapse under its own weight, leaving nothing but rubble where elevated rubble had stood.†   (source)
  • Red winds out of Valyria that smelled of ash and brimstone, and black winds that drove us toward that blighted shore.†   (source)
  • The vines are blighted, diseased.†   (source)
  • My olive shoots had been blighted.†   (source)
  • And perhaps it was right from that moment, the very start, that the young girl sensed my hesitance, the blighted hope in my eyes.†   (source)
  • While working as a Wall Street Journal reporter in 1994, I met a top student at a blighted Washington, D.C., high school who was "too proud" for his own good.†   (source)
  • I DO NOT KNOW how it was finally decided, but only a matter of days after I overheard that conversation, Elinor whispered to me that the rector had fixed upon the second Sunday in August, provided no new cases blighted us beforehand.†   (source)
  • He dramatically clears his throat and sweeps his gaze across the students who happen to be present today-a chilly February morning in 1994— at Frank W. Ballou Senior High, the most troubled and violent school in the blighted southeast corner of Washington, D.C. Usually, he uses assemblies as a forum to admonish students for their stupidity or disrespect.†   (source)
  • I'm not going to build a line through one of their blighted areas," he said in the same indifferent voice.†   (source)
  • But, in traveling from a blighted urban terrain to Ivy League distinction, and then in taking some early steps toward professional success, he's earned insights about himself, race, class, hope, faith, and the elusive "unseen," that exceed even the most wild imaginings of the gangly sixteen-year-old I met in the hallways of Ballou High School in 1994.†   (source)
  • I'm not so sure it was great-building that Line for all those prosperous industrialists in Colorado, when there are so many poor people in blighted areas who need transportation.†   (source)
  • While there existed blighted areas where rail service had been discontinued, there existed at the same time large regions where two or more railroads were competing for a traffic barely sufficient for one.†   (source)
  • He asked himself whether he could deliver his children to the fate of the children of the unemployed, as he had seen them in the blighted areas, in the settlements around closed factories and along the tracks of discontinued railroads.†   (source)
  • Under the Railroad Unification Plan, a local railroad had gone bankrupt in North Dakota, abandoning the region to the fate of a blighted area, the local banker had committed suicide, first killing his wife and children-a freight train had been taken oil the schedule in Tennessee, leaving a local factory without transportation at a day's notice, the factory owner's son had quit college and was now in jail, awaiting execution for a murder committed with a gang of raiders-a wa†   (source)
  • "You done knocked up mah precious baby again!" he boohooed in female plaint, his voice a heavenly facsimile—down to the perfect shading of falsetto—of that of some weak-witted and godforsaken wife and victim, blighted by wedlock, history and retrograde genes.†   (source)
  • It's a blight on my honor as much as his.†   (source)
  • We have lost many flowers to frost and blight.†   (source)
  • Gemma, Mother's murder is a blight on this family.†   (source)
  • Not one who blights the happiness of others for a moment's pleasure.†   (source)
  • "Centralization destroys the blight of monopoly," said Boyle.†   (source)
  • It takes a moment to place Blight.†   (source)
  • Blight.†   (source)
  • When we, the Riders, became aware of the Ra'zac's foul presence in Alagaesia, we did our best to eradicate them, as we would leaf blight.†   (source)
  • Not only was the savage blight he had elected to keep gone, but every other scar and blemish had vanished from his body, leaving him as unmarked as a newborn babe.†   (source)
  • The price of doing so would be to leave a death-spot upon the earth, a blight where nothing, not even the tiny organisms in the soil, still lived.†   (source)
  • The crowded merchandising complex was a blight on the French countryside but a welcome sight for the fugitives.†   (source)
  • Mengistu was a despised figure, a blight on the nation, a man about whom to this day no one can find a good word to say.†   (source)
  • From the city's gloom to the country's bloom
    Where the fragrant breezes sigh
    From the city's blight to the greenwood bright
    Like the birds of summer fly
    O Children, dear Children
    Young, happy, pure ...†   (source)
  • Glaedr had excluded Oromis from his mind for the duration of the fight, but their bond ran deeper than conscious thought, so he felt it when Oromis stiffened, incapacitated by the searing pain of his bone-blight-nerve-rot.†   (source)
  • The area was in the process of renovation; however, like similar projects in urban blights the world over, the progress had two speeds: slow and stop.†   (source)
  • When the Crash came—in 1929—my grandfather lost nearly everything—including that year's crop, to a blight.†   (source)
  • It's a blight.†   (source)
  • Boyle did not catch the tone of mockery, and answered earnestly, "It destroys the blight of monopoly.†   (source)
  • But it's like a blight.†   (source)
  • After order had been restored, and as we sat drinking (he bourbon, I that steadfast spirit of my nonage—Rheingold) and talking, largely about the gulf which separated this devil's spawn of an urban blight north of the Chesapeake and the South's Elysian meadows (in this realm my father could scarcely have been less prophetic, not having foreseen Atlanta), I was able more than once to reflect somberly on how my old man's imbroglio with Thomas McGuire had at least allowed me momentary diversion from my newly acquired despair.†   (source)
  • I had forgotten the illness which my native state had so rapidly undergone; bloated by war profits, the obscenely fecund urban squalor of Fairfax County swept across my vision like an hallucinated recapitulation of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and the sprawling concrete blight which only the day before I thought I was leaving behind forever.†   (source)
  • He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables.†   (source)
  • What does it matter whether such a blighted life as mine comes to an end, now, next week, or next year?†   (source)
  • Went down to give a tender nurse and friend to Tip for some few years, who was never vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits.†   (source)
  • The Innkeeper, hat in hand in the yard, swore to the courier that he was blighted, that he was desolated, that he was profoundly afflicted, that he was the most miserable and unfortunate of beasts, that he had the head of a wooden pig.†   (source)
  • Numbers of men in every profession and trade would be blighted by his insolvency; old people who had been in easy circumstances all their lives would have no place of repentance for their trust in him but the workhouse; legions of women and children would have their whole future desolated by the hand of this mighty scoundrel.†   (source)
  • At no Mother's knee but hers had he ever dwelt in his youth on hopeful promises, on playful fancies, on the harvests of tenderness and humility that lie hidden in the early-fostered seeds of the imagination; on the oaks of retreat from blighting winds, that have the germs of their strong roots in nursery acorns.†   (source)
  • The pal of mine there is a humorous blighter.†   (source)
  • If Hopton Stoddard wished a worthy memorial to his name, a grand climax of his generosity, to what nobler purpose could he dedicate his money than to the Hopton Stoddard Home for Subnormal Children, Toohey pointed out to him emphatically; to the poor little blighted ones for whom nobody cared.†   (source)
  • I knew that the Negroes were passing from one misery to another, and that the hopes they now carried would be blighted.†   (source)
  • This second blighting of her hopes was more than heart could bear and she cried "Oh!" in a childish whisper and sat down, tears stinging her eyes.†   (source)
  • The blighter waylaid the pilot, knocked him out, pinched his kit, and climbed into the cockpit without a soul spotting him.†   (source)
  • She was certain that some romantic sorrow had blighted his life and made him hard and bitter, and she felt that what he needed was the love of a good woman.†   (source)
  • Those fears had never weighed her down as this feeling of wrongness was doing—this blighting fear that was oddly like that which she knew in her old nightmare, a thick, swimming mist through which she ran with bursting heart, a lost child seeking a haven that was hidden from her.†   (source)
  • A sudden blighting pain made sight and feeling fade from her.†   (source)
  • Most of them splendid and sound—a few blighted.†   (source)
  • The wretched blighter's down with influenza.†   (source)
  • I remembered the broken, blighted family that used to live there.†   (source)
  • Which do we live on—a splendid one or a blighted one?†   (source)
  • The blighter can't have had anything to eat for a month.'†   (source)
  • An here I am, talkin to a rotten old blighter like you sted o givin her wot for.†   (source)
  • But there's more wrong with me than a blighted love affair.†   (source)
  • I cannot believe his prospects so blighted for ever.†   (source)
  • 'All, all is against me: she has blighted my single consolation.†   (source)
  • The priest looked at him sideways, something bitterly—a dry and blighting smile.†   (source)
  • They were but few, but were eloquent with the feelings of blighted affection, and contrition.†   (source)
  • I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control!†   (source)
  • And yet, from the very first day of our wedding, you came and blighted it.†   (source)
  • She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing.†   (source)
  • Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted — confidence destroyed!†   (source)
  • And yet a day on which a blighting sorrow may fall upon a man.†   (source)
  • He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.†   (source)
  • I am simply blighted—like a damaged ear of corn—the business is done and can't be undone.†   (source)
  • The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted.†   (source)
  • Their talk is of blighted cotton crops—not of the blight on their children's souls.†   (source)
  • SHIRLEY [with blighting contempt] Yes: you like an old man to hit, don't you, when you've finished with the women.†   (source)
  • He hoped that Mary would forget his shoes, but the hope was blighted; she coated them thoroughly with tallow, as was the custom, and brought them out.†   (source)
  • You, Tom d'Invilliers, a blighted Shelley, changing, shifting, clever, unscrupulous, represent the critical consciousness of the race—Oh, don't protest, I know the stuff.†   (source)
  • Did you or did you not write a letter to an old blighter in America that was giving five millions to found Moral Reform Societies all over the world, and that wanted you to invent a universal language for him?†   (source)
  • He had been before in drawing-rooms hung with red damask, with pictures "of the Italian school"; what struck him was the way in which Medora Manson's shabby hired house, with its blighted background of pampas grass and Rogers statuettes, had, by a turn of the hand, and the skilful use of a few properties, been transformed into something intimate, "foreign," subtly suggestive of old romantic scenes and sentiments.†   (source)
  • The most piteous thing amid all the black ruin of war-time, amid the broken fortunes of the masters, the blighted hopes of mothers and maidens, and the fall of an empire,—the most piteous thing amid all this was the black freedman who threw down his hoe because the world called him free.†   (source)
  • Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this sort of life might be romantic enough, in his blighted condition, but it was getting to have too little sentiment and too much distracting variety about it.†   (source)
  • If they had been at all visibly blighted or battered, she would doubtless have grown, on tracing it back, haggard enough to match them; as matters stood, however, I could feel her, when she surveyed them, with her large white arms folded and the habit of serenity in all her look, thank the Lord's mercy that if they were ruined the pieces would still serve.†   (source)
  • Blighter!'†   (source)
  • would she drop one little tear upon his poor, lifeless form, would she heave one little sigh to see a bright young life so rudely blighted, so untimely cut down?†   (source)
  • "'Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it, Tess?" murmured Abraham through his tears.†   (source)
  • Amid it all, two figures ever stand to typify that day to coming ages,—the one, a gray-haired gentleman, whose fathers had quit themselves like men, whose sons lay in nameless graves; who bowed to the evil of slavery because its abolition threatened untold ill to all; who stood at last, in the evening of life, a blighted, ruined form, with hate in his eyes;—and the other, a form hovering dark and mother-like, her awful face black with the mists of centuries, had aforetime quailed at that white master's command, had bent in love over the cradles of his sons and daughters, and closed in death the sunken eyes of his wife,—aye, too, at his behest had laid herself lo†   (source)
  • An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.†   (source)
  • A blighted one.†   (source)
  • Crippled, ruined in health, wrecked and broken by an inexplicable war, soul-blighted by the heartless, callous neglect of government and public, on the verge of madness at the insupportable facts, he had yet been wonderful enough, true enough to himself and God, to fight for life with the instinct of a man, to fight for his mind with a noble and unquenchable faith.†   (source)
  • "Over God's forbode!" said Prince John, involuntarily turning at the same time as pale as death, and shrinking as if blighted by a flash of lightning; "Waldemar!†   (source)
  • She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery.†   (source)
  • Being an energetic individual, Mr. Laurence struck while the iron was hot, and before the blighted being recovered spirit enough to rebel, they were off.†   (source)
  • Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure.†   (source)
  • O, weak, and selfish, and unworthy spirit, that could dream of an earthly union and earthly happiness as possible, after such deep love had been so bitterly wronged as was Beatrice's love by Giovanni's blighting words!†   (source)
  • Newman had gone toward him, and the old man rose slowly, gazing at him with a more blighted expression even than usual.†   (source)
  • But the fact was so, for at the next bend in the lane Maggie actually saw the little semicircular black tent with the blue smoke rising before it, which was to be her refuge from all the blighting obloquy that had pursued her in civilized life.†   (source)
  • Phoebe's presence, and the contiguity of her fresh life to his blighted one, was usually all that he required.†   (source)
  • The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "I disgust you very much," said Caspar Goodwood gloomily; not as if to provoke her to compassion for a man conscious of this blighting fact, but as if to set it well before himself, so that he might endeavour to act with his eyes on it.†   (source)
  • 'That a discontented and rebellious spirit should ever have infected these fortunate subjects of so loving a master, seems incredible, yet it was so; disobedience and pride brought misery and punishment, the fair prospects of the colony were blighted, the labours of the colonists were unblessed, and total separation from the parent kingdom seemed inevitable.†   (source)
  • Blighted and battered, but still responsive and still ironic, his face was like a lighted lantern patched with paper and unsteadily held; his thin whisker languished upon a lean cheek; the exorbitant curve of his nose defined itself more sharply.†   (source)
  • But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.†   (source)
  • 'For my sake—for mine, Lenville—forego all idle forms, unless you would see me a blighted corse at your feet.'†   (source)
  • to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden — oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!†   (source)
  • His colleagues looked at him, and doubtless pitied his prospects, blighted under the perfumed breath of a woman.†   (source)
  • As he comes into the iron country farther north, such fresh green woods as those of Chesney Wold are left behind; and coal pits and ashes, high chimneys and red bricks, blighted verdure, scorching fires, and a heavy never-lightening cloud of smoke become the features of the scenery.†   (source)
  • She threw herself into it, for now that she had made such a point of keeping her conscience clear, that was one way of proving she had not been superficial—the more so as the years, in their flight, had rather enriched than blighted those peculiarities which had been humorously criticised by persons less interested than Isabel, and which were still marked enough to give loyalty a spice of heroism.†   (source)
  • Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed.†   (source)
  • During their interview Pitt Crawley made a great stroke, and one which showed that, had his diplomatic career not been blighted by early neglect, he might have risen to a high rank in his profession.†   (source)
  • Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic dialect at once so blighted and rebellious.†   (source)
  • It was only the want of adequate knowledge that could have made it possible for Godfrey deliberately to entertain an unfeeling project: his natural kindness had outlived that blighting time of cruel wishes, and Nancy's praise of him as a husband was not founded entirely on a wilful illusion.†   (source)
  • Some said that he could look into people's minds; others, that, by the marvellous power of this eye, he could draw people into his own mind, or send them, if he pleased, to do errands to his grandfather, in the spiritual world; others, again, that it was what is termed an Evil Eye, and possessed the valuable faculty of blighting corn, and drying children into mummies with the heartburn.†   (source)
  • 'If that had been the case, Harry,' said Mrs. Maylie, 'I fear your happiness would have been effectually blighted, and that your arrival here, a day sooner or a day later, would have been of very, very little import.'†   (source)
  • His digestion was weak and he lived chiefly on Graham bread and hominy—a regimen to which he was so much attached that his tour seemed to him destined to be blighted when, on landing on the Continent, he found that these delicacies did not flourish under the table d'hote system.†   (source)
  • his own life out of jeopardy, and that his brother, by his presence, was a consenting accessory to the crime; a crime which was the basest known to the calendar of human misdeeds—assassination; that it was conceived by the blackest of hearts and consummated by the cowardliest of hands; a crime which had broken a loving sister's heart, blighted the happiness of a young nephew who was as dear as a son, brought inconsolable grief to many friends, and sorrow and loss to the whole community.†   (source)
  • A closer look at June, however, reassured her; for, while it was easy to trace in the unpractised features of this unsophisticated being the pain of blighted affections, no distrust could have tortured the earnest expression of her honest countenance into that of treachery or hate.†   (source)
  • You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today because you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.†   (source)
  • He sat by a newly-lighted wood fire (the blighted and unfruitful year was prematurely cold), and on his honest and courageous face there was a deeper shade than the pendent lamp could throw, or any object in the room distortedly reflect—a shade of horror.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 'When they had been separated for some time,' returned Mr. Brownlow, 'and your mother, wholly given up to continental frivolities, had utterly forgotten the young husband ten good years her junior, who, with prospects blighted, lingered on at home, he fell among new friends.†   (source)
  • "Or," said Estella,—"which is a nearer case,—if you had taught her, from the dawn of her intelligence, with your utmost energy and might, that there was such a thing as daylight, but that it was made to be her enemy and destroyer, and she must always turn against it, for it had blighted you and would else blight her;—if you had done this, and then, for a purpose, had wanted her to take naturally to the daylight and she could not do it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"†   (source)
  • That woman, who has so abused your long-suffering, so sullied your name, so outraged your honour, so blighted your youth, is not your wife, nor are you her husband.†   (source)
  • 'Before I come here,' said Uriah, stealing a look at us, as if he would have blighted the outer world to which we belonged, if he could, 'I was given to follies; but now I am sensible of my follies.†   (source)
  • I was determined that the master, whom I so hated and loathed, who had blighted the prospects of my youth, and made my life a desert, should not, after my long struggle with him, succeed at last in trampling his victim under his feet.†   (source)
  • Others thought she looked as if some demon had cast a blighting glance upon her, withered up the woman's soul in her, and left only a hard despairing obstinacy.†   (source)
  • But he was in gloomy rebellion against the fact that his quick apprehensiveness foreshadowed to him, and when his eyes fell on Rosamond's blighted face it seemed to him that he was the more pitiable of the two; for pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.†   (source)
  • Blighted!†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • Or suppose, on the other hand, your swan sings quite a different sort of dirge and you say, "I am a poor blighted, disappointed old fellow, and have made an utter failure through life.†   (source)
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