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    1. Melinda had followed Theo's rise to stardom in the fight against international crime, but this was all he had? He expected her to take a giant professional risk that could blight her career while he nosed around the tattoo parlors of Darklow town?


    2. We ought not to deceive ourselves into thinking that suffering is normative and thus continue to blight the character of God


    3. They’re a blight upon this land and my own, that’s for sure


    4. In the 1930’s, a devastating blight struck


    5. I could still hear the chaos all around me; sporadic last shots being fired, the surprised gasps the appearance of the demon falling from the sky like a blight had caused among what few men remained standing


    6. America took the hard look, at long last, and cleansed this blight from her soul with the blood of six hundred thousand of her young men


    7. The Earth Liberation Front was proud to claim credit for the event, having relieved the earth of what it considered a human created blight


    8. handicapped child is considered a blight on the community


    9. Instead of the uneven surface pocked by destruction, the blight that has affected almost all of his once-loved home, Ralph sees the smoothness of the stone as it meets the glass


    10. without a blight ,

    11. and in memory of this blight


    12. 1 But even after materialism and mechanism have been more or less vanquished, the devastating influence of twentieth-century secularism will still blight the spiritual experience of millions of unsuspecting souls


    13. If you succeed, we ask only that you remove the blight of a prison foisted on us without our knowledge


    14. Reserve responds to both the need for investment and the potential blight of inflation


    15. as fatalistic, negative and anti-environmental; a blight on the brave new spirit of global cooperation that the apostate church believes will ‘save the world’


    16. Show us how to use atomic power to bless our children’s children, not to blight them


    17. It is a quaint but wise saying of an old divine, that "true faith has blight eyes, and can see even in the dark


    18. Just the thought of her sent him into a cold sweat; he’d never been in trouble with the police before her yet now he had the blight of the police order hanging over him


    19. "I, uhm, I have tests that I can use to evaluate for root blight and such


    20. It breeds mold and blight,” he paused, realizing she might not know what that meant

    21. The Arkenians quenched the earth until the Trader crops died of blight and mold


    22. This crisis of imergence clogging the flows of Eartheart's natural systems trigger her immune responses: expulsions of volcanic ash reducing planes in air, travel on ground, shutting down businesses reducing the destruction of her lungs; earthquakes tectonically shocking electrical grids offline reducing her EM poisoning; cycles of storms blowing rain and sand, enema cleansing and anti-organic scouring, with a single hurricane, blight or swarm eliminating the monocultural food systems that feed the mass that is consuming her


    23. Suppose you have inherited from a mother who loved them as much as you do a precious shelf-full of the poets, cheap editions, entirely free from the blight of commentaries, foot-notes, and introductory biographies


    24. Wretched, indeed, is the hostess upon whose guests has fallen, from whatever cause, a blight


    25. They saw a blight upon the land that stretched further and further with each passing day


    26. "Ma'am, is it possible that the blight of passing and outward circumstance has penetrated to and settled upon what should always be of a sublime inaccessibility, your soul?"


    27. “Of course your father must be informed of the gypsy blight!”


    28. He seemed to be in the middle of a rousing speech, “the Baron has said it for years! They are a blight on the landscape of mighty Trevena


    29. It got infected with blight, a fungus


    30.  Smite with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, with

    31. Smite with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight,


    32. severe guilt as a result of that horrid blight upon their history…that of the Holocaust


    33. Late blight turns the foliage black and then moldy


    34. Frustrations of childhood, failures, hurts, jealousies, misinterpretations of childish love affairs, play episodes for which society has such swift punishment, clandestine sex knowledge--these are the experiences which leave their blight on the later love responses


    35. Pages might yet be written to prove, from this illustrious example, the defects of human excellence; to show how easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy


    36. "Or," said Estella,—"which is a nearer case,—if you had taught her, from the dawn of her intelligence, with your utmost energy and might, that there was such a thing as daylight, but that it was made to be her enemy and destroyer, and she must always turn against it, for it had blighted you and would else blight her;—if you had done this, and then, for a purpose, had wanted her to take naturally to the daylight and she could not do it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"


    37. They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight


    38. That atrocious system which, having attained to the fullest measure of detestable injustice and cruelty, was now fast crumbling into ruin, inevitably doomed to be overwhelmed because it was all so wicked and abominable, inevitably doomed to sink under the blight and curse of senseless and unprofitable selfishness out of existence for ever, its memory universally execrated and abhorred


    39. seated on a toadstool, the deathflower of the potato blight on her breast


    40. Such was his sense of power over this virgin soul, trusting him as she did, that the minister felt potent to blight all the field of innocence with but one wicked look, and develop all its opposite with but a word

    41. A pair of women on bicycles pull off the road and gape at the truck as its passes: some infernal lorry sent to blight their town


    42. The right of lords to refuse such requests on a whim, and blight the course of a serf’ s life, was one of the peasants ’ greatest gripes


    43. They had to don facial masks to combat a blight of mold


    44. Tess's passing corporeal blight had been her mental harvest


    45. A Blight Zone


    46. And it turned out he’d been right! A simple Blight Zone decree had changed everything, turned breakdowns to fast-tracks


    47. The thing he’s done: revenge for the Blight Zone, for Sam, for the general fuckedness of this life


    48. As a tool for reversing what had happened with the Blight Zone, it was brilliant, but also predicated on Sam’s not snitching—on a loyalty Nicky should have known from the fanzines didn’t exist


    49. There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism


    50. And on Lydgate's enthusiasm there was constantly pressing not a simple weight of sorrow, but the biting presence of a petty degrading care, such as casts the blight of irony over all higher effort




















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