Though it be hard to bear, yet is grief lighter Than broken vows, and blighted honour, and laws Made to sustain the State, yet overset By one man's will.
Wouldst thou thy country Should spurn thee as the traitor whose malignance Blighted her hard-won gains?
The blighted spot was cut out and did not reappear.
Tree has not blighted to date after twelve years exposure to blighting chestnuts and chinkapins.
There has been a lot learned about the blight since that time and apparently it can be controlled by cutting out the blighted portions.
Apparently that can be controlled by cutting out that blighted portion.
He was satisfied that if blight appeared it could be controlled by the removal of the blighted part.
The tree has not blighted to date after twelve years of exposure to blighting chestnuts and chinkapins.
It is said to be the sign and symbol of blighted love.
I do not do anything for a blighted filbert--it must take care of itself.
Unfortunately, this already shows blight and is apparently the result of pollination by some blighted American seedling or sprout in the neighborhood.
That fierce Northern blast which overthrew for ever the gorgeous fabric of the Roman Empire, withered and blighted everything that could be called intellectual or refined.
But all these hopes are blighted now, They point but to despair.
For their cultivation a sweet atmosphere is necessary; they bow their heads and are blighted by storm.
His only consolation was, that in revenge, he had completely blighted the young hero's life, for hero he was, although his heroism was of a mistaken kind.
How self vanished like a blighted thing as we heard those words of pity coming from one whose suffering was beyond human words to express.
It was indeed a stricken and a blighted country, and a man might have ridden from Auvergne in the north to the marches of Foix, nor ever seen a smiling village or a thriving homestead.
It passed by the blighted beech there," said Alleyne, pointing, "and the hounds were hard at its heels.
There was not a single officer who did not tremble on thinking of his responsibility; not one who did not see his hopes of advancement blighted forever.
His entire life, with its struggles and its miseries, its hopes and its fears, its unexpected joys and its blighted hopes, all passed before him.
He could never forget how she unconsciously sympathized with him that day over the loss that had blighted his life forever,--yet even then he did not know that she, herself, had passed through the same suffering.
And though at times her spirit was overwhelmed with anguish in view of her desolate home and blighted hopes, she still found great solace in the warm affections which sprang up around her, even in the uncongenial atmosphere of a prison.
This note he pushed under her door, and then slept too soundly for the blighted youth he had a few hours before deemed himself.
Yet more than once she shyly glanced at him, and queried, Could his flushed and mirthful face be that of the passionate lover and blighted youth of scarce a month since?
He thinks of his scorned suit, and blightedlove prospects.
It would, no doubt, be different were the blighted heart that of his younger.
I certainly do intend, provided I am exchanged in time to return here with the army, which I doubt not will be instantly dispatched to restore our blighted fame, and then I shall claim you as my own.
The remorse that weighs him down, his unhappy love and seemingly blighted life, are all brought gradually before the reader, in the most natural and unsensational manner, deeply moving his sympathies and interest.
The moment he walked upon the scene you saw the blighted figure of a man who has endured, and is enduring, spiritual torment.
Fame and wealth were her cold rewards, after much privation and labour; but she found neither love nor happiness, and the fullest years of her life were blighted with the shadow of fatal disease and impending death.
There was nothing left of her but a blighted shadow, the cloud of golden hair crowning in gay mockery her drawn and haggard face.
They mightn't like a blighted being for a secretary and I might lose my job, and then I really would be worried.
But responsible industry is concerned with public relations, and knows that a fish kill or a gray-blue stretch of blighted water downstream from its outfalls is the poorest kind of public relations to be had.
This statement is considered significant in view of the reported discovery ashore of a large blighted area almost directly opposite the point where the launch was found.
Tell me those hands belong to a blighted Portugee manual labourist and I won't call you a liar, but I'll say you an' the Admiralty are pretty much unique in your statements.
An' what manner o' manoeuvres d'you expect to see in a blighted cathedral like the Pedantic?
The blighted egg-boiler has steam up," said Mr. Hinchcliffe, pausing to gather a large stone.
But if the canker-worm lies coil'd around The heart o' the bud, the summer sun and dew Visit in vain the sear'd and blighted flower.
It is certain that an Indian girl is buried beneath that blighted tree; but I never could learn the particulars of her story, and perhaps there was no tale connected with it.
