All 5 Uses of
blight
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight.†
Chpt 8
- Christfox in leather trews, hiding, a runaway in blighted treeforks, from hue and cry.†
Chpt 9 *
- But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of theā¦†
Chpt 14
- PRIVATE COMPTON: He doesn't half want a thick ear, the blighter.†
Chpt 15
- Old Gummy Granny in sugarloaf hat appears seated on a toadstool, the deathflower of the potato blight on her breast.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage