1 But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.
2 Such a marriage would irretrievably blight my son's career, and ruin his prospects.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 3 If the likeness of that face don't turn to burning fire, at the thought of offering money to me for my child's blight and ruin, it's as bad.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 4 When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay.
5 The more you and I converse, the better; for while I cannot blight you, you may refresh me.
6 But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 7 The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main.
8 He had just heard that blight had begun to appear in his wheat, upon which he had in particular rested his hopes.
9 He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 10 This programme, however, we are sorely puzzled in carrying out through that part of the land where the blight of slavery fell hardest, and where we are dealing with two backward peoples.
11 You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today because you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.
12 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.
13 He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously.
14 He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.
15 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.