All 5 Uses of
blight
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- A large portion of them, as the girl afterwards discovered, had blight or mildew at their hearts; but, viewed at a fair distance, the whole rosebush looked as if it had been brought from Eden that very summer, together with the mould in which it grew.†
Chpt 5
- This is the most perfect of them all; not a speck of blight or mildew in it.†
Chpt 7
- Phoebe's presence, and the contiguity of her fresh life to his blighted one, was usually all that he required.†
Chpt 9 *blighted = extensively damaged
- 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.†
Chpt 13blighting = extensively damaging
- Blighted!†
Chpt 16blighted = extensively damaged
Definition:
causing or consisting of extensive damage