10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLIGHTINGLY»
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1
The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas Legend
For all that, the eye of the ex-captain was bent blightingly upon him—at times in a
demoniac glare—when he saw—or fancied—that another eye was turned
admiringly in the same direction. A long journey performed by that trio of
travellers ...
2
Guided By Spirit: A Journey Into the Mind of the Medium
Neighbor ladies shared this “collective apparition” (a “ghost experience”
happening simultaneously to more than one person), hearing “some very abrupt
and blightingly truthful things about their conduct” from the hole. Some of these
women ...
3
The Methodist Quarterly Review
... their divine mission. This interference of Bonaparte — which is too favorably
viewed by Guizot — wrought hinderingly and blightingly on the happily-begun
movement, introducing into it a political element, and imposing upon it police ...
... a monarch at once lazy and vain, — and now and again the sinister shadow of
Constantius darkened Julian's life in Paris just as it had fallen blightingly upon
him from his sixth year. First the growing friendship between Julian and Sallust (a
...
University of Wisconsin. Dept. of Classics,
1922
5
An essay on the genius of Shakespeare
Moments at times come blightingly across me, " The weight of which 1 would fling
aside for ever!" trick is had recourse to, that I only wonder at 154 ON TASTE,
JUDGMENT, &C. trick belongs to farces and melodrames.) Almost ...
Henry Mercer Graves,
1826
It is refreshing to see such genuine catholicity of temper, as though in dignified
rebuke of the petty, exclusive, disreputable feelings, which, under one pretext or
another, are so blightingly prevalent in these times. A great collateral advantage
of ...
Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams,
1843
7
The daughter of the South
Where fame hath blightingly passed, Withering the pure, tender blooms Of love
and of faith, and cast O'er life a shadow of tombs : Where ambition hath mocked
with dreams, Where fear with phantoms appalls, Where wealth, in illusions, ...
... and bent over them with a sombre air calculated to raise apprehensions of
financial disaster in the least sordid mind. When Marion implored her to speak
out and tell what possible danger threatened them, Rachel said, blightingly, ...
... destiny with hers upon whom popular censure had borne so blightingly. As a
free man, he might aspire, with fair, hopes of success, to the hand of women of
beauty, family, and wealth, and in reputation spotless as a newly-blown
snowdrop.
Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale,
1867
10
The History, Topography, and Antiquities of the Isle of Wight
How often, too, would the shadow of the black scaffold and the deadly glitter of
the keen axe, fall blightingly upon her young soul ! She was of an impressionable
nature; with a mind too sensitive, and rapid in its growth, .the energy of her ...
William Henry Davenport Adams,
1856
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLIGHTINGLY»
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From the archive, 8 January 1960: The price of educating women
Here in Oxford I have met women at parties who introduced themselves blightingly as “just a wife,” and apparently saw themselves as exiles ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»