All 5 Uses of
blight
in
The Mill on the Floss
- …in the course of his ride along the Basset lanes, with their deep ruts,—lying so far away from a market-town that the labor of drawing produce and manure was enough to take away the best part of the profits on such poor land as that parish was made of,—he got up a due amount of irritation against Moss as a man without capital, who, if murrain and blight were abroad, was sure to have his share of them, and who, the more you tried to help him out of the mud, would sink the further in.†
Chpt 1.8
- 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.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- The voice that said this made sweet music to Maggie; but athwart it there came an urgent, monotonous warning from another voice which she had been learning to obey,—the warning that such interviews implied secrecy; implied doing something she would dread to be discovered in, something that, if discovered, must cause anger and pain; and that the admission of anything so near doubleness would act as a spiritual blight.†
Chpt 5.1
- That momentary happiness had been smitten with a blight, a leprosy; Stephen thought more lightly of her than he did of Lucy.†
Chpt 6.10
- But don't blight our lives forever by a rash perversity that can answer no good purpose to any one, that can only create new evils.†
Chpt 6.14
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage