For the husbandman weeps at blights of the fife, and blasting of trumpets consume The souls of mild France; the pale mother nourishes her child to the deadly slaughter.
The uncle who made Tozer wretched by asking him unexpected questions on all occasions is a type of an ogre who sometimes blights the lives of children still.
When a will is broken, however, it can never regain its full power; the breaking processblights it forever.
Coercion in any form blights and dwarfs the true selfhood of the child.
He disappoints their hopes, blights their prospects, and brings upon them the day of his wrathful visitation.
It is the science of self-tormenting, that withers every joy, and blights all our happiness.
As regards the Middle Ages, we know little beyond the fact that blights and mildews existed, but Shakespeare's reference in King Lear (Act III.
I have not regarded it as nearly as serious as pear blight and some other blights that attack fruit trees.
Ev'n now the sorrow of that deadly learning Ploughs up her brow, like an untimely age, And on her cheek stamps verdict of death's truth By canker blights upon the bud of youth!
These lines," continued Emily, "first taught my parents the nature and extent of those feelings which had outlived the blights of early hope.
It is all over now, and I may perhaps follow him ere long; yet, while we are here, it is human nature to deplore that folly which blights the happiest anticipations in the bud.
It is the great balm for all that blights happiness or breeds discontent, a sovereign panacea for malice, revenge, and all the brutal propensities.
It blights the ambition, deadens the purpose and defeats the very object the worrier has in view.
What is it which blights and paralyses all the efforts now made, whether by individuals, voluntary associations, or the state, for the attainment of those truly godlike objects?
Of doom that blasts the blood and blights the breath, Robs youth and manhood of all golden morrows-- And life's clear goblet brims with wine of death!
In solitude he pollutes himself, and with his own hand blights all his prospects for both this world and the next.
It starts in California, where several settlers had been trying to gain a living as fruit-growers, but the various blights and insects were getting the upper hand, and failure was in the air all round.
Juries of farmers have invariably decided against the learned and patient "smoke expert," and I have no desire to give the province a bad reputation as to blights and pests.
Do you mean to tell me that there really are blights and destructive fungi in this province?
These, in unkind seasons, we see affected by blights and by insects of various kinds, which prevent them from coming to good maturity, and make them less productive than we wish them to be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
