That very morning started the blighting of my soul.

This second blighting of her hopes was more than heart could bear and she cried "Oh!"

Blighting of new leaves may also take place.

It bore a hideous resemblance to the blighting, punishing sorts of work which are common in the world at large.

Victory is not enough to console a mother for the loss of her son, and the blighting of her home.

Then, too, the blighting, gray oblivion of the cold, damp clouds through which I wandered was distress-ing.

Their proliferation went beyond their ability to remain clandestine, and eventually their dark alchemy led to the blighting of the Legion reality.

Bristling with menace, "The Hide" is a superbly modulated study of the blighting of an innocent.

Gonzalez, putting aside academic caution, rises to warmly indignant tones in analyzing the market forces that propelled the blighting and redlining of once thriving districts.

It is the blighting, perhaps, of an honourable man's whole career ... because of suspi- cion--a suspicion that I dare not disregard."

What matters most is the misery that this decision visits on individuals, on families, on whole communities, the destruction of their hopes and the blighting of their futures.

The industrialisation of the Shire was based on Tolkien's childhood experience of the blighting of the Worcestershire countryside by the spread of heavy industry.

She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery.

However, in the final year of the scheme, there were no further payments, primarily because of the blighting of the potato crop and the devastation caused by the 'Great Fire'.

If I had had to have a part in the blighting of the good land, I know not how I could ever again have raised my eyes to the clean day!"

For its efforts, Idar-Oberstein won an award in 1988 in a contest staged by German town planners: First Prize for Most Consequential Blighting of an Historic Townscape.

From the dome there reached out slowly, almost caressingly, a huge arm of force incredible, at whose first blighting touch his first or outer screen simply vanished- flared through the visible spectrum and went down, all in the veriest twinkling of an eye.

"The loathing and horror that extreme cold evoked in him was carried over into his writing," Carter wrote, "and the pages of Madness convey the blighting, blasting, stifling sensation caused by sub-zero temperatures in a way that even Poe could not suggest."

Approval of the wind farm followed an unsuccessful challenge by local residents and landowners in the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales to block the project on the grounds of aesthetic and environmental impacts including noise emissions and blighting of the landscape.

Knew that he was going to blight her life by doing this.

With no money for construction, it continues to blight the city center.

It would be one of many injuries to blight his career.

Life at sea was certain to blight a man's prospects for ever.

Nothing remains to blight their happiness other than a future War.

I could not find the words to blight this fresh and tender love.

It's a waste of money and will blight the landscape.

Of blighting everything with his black mood as he was carried on and away.

Or was Change to come again, like a serpent, blighting all?

"What right had they to blight and ruin my life?

The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower.

What has she ever done to you that you should blight her whole life?

I find it hard to understand how wind farms can blight the landscape.

She seems to think that you are responsible for blighting her promising career.

To blight his name would corrupt him in the eyes of the Spanish crown.

That sort of thing, he was sure, could blight a young subaltern's career.

Take the fathers, so often accused of blighting their daughters' development.

He could blight the earth itself, did he so choose.

Would blight them all in an instant, if allowed free rein to do so.

The decision is the third blow to blight the four-year-old's life.

If the red priest hadn't come to blight their lives, Simon would still be here.

Junior, get ready to blight them where they stand.

And, a shambles: Government attacked over the road that will blight a dream home.

"Why blight the main road that identifies your state?"

However, protesters say the plans would blight their communities.

He had been out from the Blight about five minutes.

The city is about 20 years old and has no areas of blight.

What was the blight that had taken hold of him?

It must be the Blight, but the land was the same.

My work has been a blight on you from the very beginning.

At the time, no way was known to fight the blight.

"Then how can anything you do down here hurt the Blight?"

Even if the Blight was sure to win, why help it?

He was nearly dead from the blight, only holding on until I should return.

The blight of hard times was on all the neighborhood.

He thinks you may be from the Blight, and after the same thing.

This woman is and continues to be a blight on the lives of her children.

Child poverty was and is a particular blight on American society.

He said that the blight was discovered in only one field.

But even as she spoke the Blight rose against them.

The services should not operate under the present system, which is a blight on the industry.

But for others, the integrity office was a blight on the face of both law and science.

Almost from the beginning, the Blight has been searching for something.

It followed when some blight fell upon them long ago.

She is a blight on herself and her unfortunate family!

They were regarded in general as a blight upon the earth.

This combination led to the present blight of the area.

Then these places appeared, like a blight, as they great ones say.

For a long time he stood staring north, toward the Blight.

These should be cut because they can spread their blight into the tree.