All 9 Uses of
blight
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.†
Chpt 1
- I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave's heart.†
Chpt 5
- What a terrible blight that would be on the heart of a free, intelligent father!
Chpt 7 *blight = cause of extensive damage
- Their talk is of blighted cotton crops—not of the blight on their children's souls.†
Chpt 9
- Their talk is of blighted cotton crops—not of the blight on their children's souls.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 10
- If slavery had been abolished, I, also, could have married the man of my choice; I could have had a home shielded by the laws; and I should have been spared the painful task of confessing what I am now about to relate; but all my prospects had been blighted by slavery.†
Chpt 10
- She said if I persevered I might, perhaps, gain the freedom of my children; and even if I perished in doing it, that was better than to leave them to groan under the same persecutions that had blighted my own life.†
Chpt 28
- We could also have told them of a poor, blighted young creature, shut up in a living grave for years, to avoid the tortures that would be inflicted on her, if she ventured to come out and look on the face of her departed friend.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage