blighting

Example Sentences

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Blighting his life for whom alone I lived.

From Dead Man's Rock by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

With the night-wind, Over field and farm and forest, Lonely homestead, darksome hamlet, Blighting all we breathe upon.”

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

Thou hast never learned to fear Blighting change, in thy bright sphere; 'Tis to us, and us alone, Faith's mysterious might is known: We, that tremble at the blast, Shall o'ersweep the storms at last!

From Poems of the Heart and Home by Yule, J. C.

Blot!—the smaller—is a curse Blighting conscience, honor, purse; Give us any, give the worse, 'Twill be less endured.

From The Liberty Minstrel by Clark, George W.

Trust not these flowers again, Fragrant and fair; Trust not that rose again, Blighting is there.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles