Valgius, like Sir Brooke Boothby, in these days, had poured forth a train of elegiac Sorrows over theblight of his filial hopes.
Thus we mourn theblight Of Virgin-Beauty, and endowments rare In their glad hours of promise.
If he could have seen the expression on Edith's face the night previous, as she looked on his besotted father, he would have cursed more bitterly than ever what he termed the blight of his life.
I admit to you that my friends are opposed to my marriage, but am I to blight my life for them?
She felt the blight of her father's course also, but it acted differently on her temperament.
But the consequences of one person's sin often blight the innocent.
Such things I don't doubt may be done uprightly and honestly; but the world, the suspicious world, is ever ready to cast the blight of shame and slander on such things.
Yet shall the curse of the oppressed be asblight upon the grave of the unjust; Yea, bitterly shall that handwriting testify against him at the judgment.
How often we, like Hagar, mourn, When some unlook'd forblight Drives us away, no more to turn To joys we fancied bright!
Such tempests cannot fail to blight the souls they sweep over; they bow the cracking forest, and strip it of its leaves; the tender sapling, alone and unprotected in its flexile youth, can hardly escape undesolated.
I knew better than Kitty did how deep the change had gone--how far below the surface the blight had struck.
A terrible word that fell like a blight on the sacred memories of my childhood, and dispelled my earliest illusions, the dearest of all.
Handle potato-bugs and blightas directed in Chapter XIII.
A blight which causes the leaves suddenly to turn black and die and also kills some small branches and produces sores or wounds on large branches and trunk, offers another difficulty.
The delight with which he made a gift of himself to any cause whatsoever, rather tended to blight the prospects of what might have been a brilliant career at law.
In your eye there is death, There is frost in your breath Which wouldblight the plants.
If drought or blight threatens the crops, his help is invoked to save them.
Apparently they fear that if they went out to their fields and gardens immediately after a woman had been brought to bed, they would carry with them a dangerous contagion which might blight the crops.
He was walking slowly, his hands in his pockets, pausing from time to time to examine some particular rose bush for any signs of blightor rust.
He rarely missed seeing anything, from the first tinge of rust on a rose, to the beginnings of American blight on a fruit tree.
It is a gay household, and I cannot believe with Kit Charteris that the children are too young to feel the blight of worldly influence.
She would not let the adventure be regarded as a lasting blighton Bertha's life.
The thought of its blight upon his name, and the haunting fear of being pointed out as the man whose sweetheart had been kidnapped by one of his partners, simply brought out a cold sweat over his body.
Just imagine the harm that would come of it--a blight on your life, that you could never live down.
Whatever else the current system of education may do to the child, there is one thing which it cannot fail to do to him,--to blight his mental growth.
These are the high priests of vested privilege, of mediaevalism, of old institutions whose perpetual maintenance, even in a generation that has progressed far beyond them, is a fungus blight upon us.
She knew their thoughts, and the blight under which they molded; and that knowledge fell like the sun's bright rays upon them.
Do you not see in this, my son," said the Papal Legate, "the blight of unbelief?
Colombia is struggling to remove the blightwhich Spain laid upon her, namely, mediaeval religion.
Dead, where the blight of pagan and mediaeval superstition has eaten into the quivering tissues; it lives where the pulsing current of modernism expands its shrunken arteries and bears the nourishing truth.
Rosendo would learn of it soon enough; and Josè dared not cast a blight upon the happiness of this rare moment.
It would mean a reversion to the blight and mold of the Middle Ages, in many respects a return in a degree to the ignorance and tyranny that stood for so many centuries like an impassable rock in the pathway of human progress.
So falls the tender flower of spring as it expands its bosom to the chilling blight of the morning frost.
Hiram Meeker was a handsome boy, well formed, with an interesting face, blight blue eyes, and a profusion of light hair shading a forehead indicative of much intelligence.
Great Britain) will have mercy upon her and cease to insist on this curse being introduced to blight China morally and physically.
So these Pagan priests taught the Church to indulge in spiritual fornication, and thus brought upon her the withering blight of God's wrath.
He could not trust himself to go near the fair young Laura, who looked so happy, with tidings that would blight her existence.
It seems the efflorescence of a rich nature, susceptible to every shade of the ludicrous, rather than the overflow of a poisonous fountain, spreading blight and mildew in its course.
There is noblight so fell as the blight of enforced calm.
Ever so pure and lovely a soul in an unhealthy body is like a bird trying to thrive and sing in an ill-kept cage, or a flower blooming with a blight set deep within its withering petals.
My soul dwells, with expanding joy, on the lovely Edens, which the servants of the Most High have caused to bloom and smile amidst the blight and barrenness of heathen lands.
