Air pollution, for instance

Usage examples of blight.

Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard.

The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.

Droops in the smile of the waning moon, When it scatters through an April night The frozen dews of wrinkling blight.

At the conclusion the goddess Dulness yawns, and a blight falls upon art, science, and philosophy.

I was looking with dread at the fearful havoc of old age upon a face which, before merciless time had blighted it, had evidently been handsome, but what amazed me was the childish effrontery with which this time-withered specimen of womankind was still waging war with the help of her blasted charms.

I spat on the kerb, knowing he was right, that there really i took them down to the Embankment where the old river ran pure silver under the uncloaked moon, its waters free of human detritus, driftwood and loose craft the only blight.

Arthur Lomb carried an enormous and bright blue backpack, an additional blight.

A certain dread which to-day I can no longer trace in my nature, a sort of terror of the consequences which might have a blighting influence upon my future, prevented me from giving myself up to complete enjoyment.

The ice bar and vodka luges are a huge success and the only blight on the whole evening is when Lady Boswell manages to get her arm stuck to an ice sculpture.

Thyza crops have been bountiful for three years, while the hwaet blight in the plains provinces has driven high the prices of all grain - thyza,, ryge, maza, even milat.

The unmagic had to be cleared from the room so Wulfric could get information about the killer, and so that she would not have the creeping sense that it might blight anyone who touched it.

Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.

On the sixth morning she left the village nestled in the northeast corner of Blighted Bay and started due east again toward the Brai River.

On the journey back, perhaps you would be kind enough to tell Merula and me what you have learned about this beggar and his blight.

Stories about the middle years also hinge on the discovery of blight in a mislived or unlived life, of love gone wrong, in any number of ways, of help refused when it might save a life, of pain passed on.