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And as along the cruel street The keen wind robs the flowers, So the cold kindness that we meet Blights these poor hearts of ours.

From All Round the Year by Bellingham-Smith, Hugh

Blights, called by us Viscotae, "infectious visitors," are often thus generated, falling from layer to layer till they settle on plants and trees.

From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Lumley, Benjamin

Blights are all over, the pear blight, the apple blight, the lettuce blight.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association

And Plants are no less subject to be destroy’d by Insects, than Men and Quadrupedes, is I have explain’d in the Chapter of Blights, in my New Improvements of Planting and Gardening.

From The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd by Bradley, Richard