Blighted

Examples

• Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And yet, from the very first day of our wedding, you came and blighted it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today because you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Was he of no more account to his Maker, than a field of corn blighted in the ear? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What does it matter whether such a blighted life as mine comes to an end, now, next week, or next year? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and--and in short you are for ever floored. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I fell under that titular avalanche a torn and blighted thing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted--confidence destroyed! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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