A truant schoolboy's wantonness could blast Their flattering hopes, and leave them both to wail.

Though, since this relation, she is calumniated by some people that are friends to the brother of Mrs. Veal who appeared, who think the relation of this appearance to be a reflection, and endeavor what they can to blast Mrs. Bargrave's reputation and to laugh the story out of countenance.

He returns to Englandfor what! Simply to find his recklessness had blasted his life, and then?

Published July, 1881, in the third number of a magazine entitled Our Times, which blasted the elixir's character by expiring immediately afterwards.

So, also, we blast rock, in order to get stones for a stone wall, or for the filling of a road-bed.

His own wrongs he freely forgave, but he thought that there had been a readiness to secure the interests of a wealthy corporation by blasting the prospects of a humble mechanic, which, for the good of society, ought not to pass unrebuked.

He told of hours that blasted men's souls, of death that was a blessing, of escape that was torture beyond the endurance of humans.

Having failed to arrest the growth of freedom, the serf-holding caste made every effort to blast the good fruits of freedom.

But if contempt is on thy face entailed, Disgrace itself shall be ashamed; Scandal shall blush that it has not prevailed To blast the man it has defamed.

for as if to blast thy fame, This keen reproach is at thee hurled; The banner that above thee waves, Is floating over three millions slaves.

" "Blast the hole!

we fly to silent scenes in vain; Care blasts the honours of the flowery plain: Care veils in clouds the sun's meridian beam, Sighs through the grove, and murmurs in the stream; For when the soul is labouring in despair, In vain the body breathes a purer air.

Insects and mildews and unexpected heats may blast a whole harvest, and the farmer has nothing to fall back upon.

What, shall a little biting blast of pain Blemish the blossoms of thy wonted pride? SYLLA.

Thou Wind, that rav'st without, Bare crag, or mountain-tairn, or blasted tree, 100 Or pine-grove whither woodman never clomb, Or lonely house, long held the witches' home, Methinks were fitter instruments for thee, Mad Lutanist!

Intentionally or otherwise, the question suggested is whether a single flaw of conduct (the betrayal to financiers of a state secret) ought to blast a political career.

They have blasted my youth, and loaded my name with infamyGod may yet lighten the load!"

"I watched my chance, and, when ther top come putty nigh ther ground, I jist dropped, and, when I picked myself up, blast my eyes, ef thar

he muttered 'twixt chattering teeth, "cross thy fingers, Giles, lest she blast thee!"

Oh, damn and blast the luck!"

[L] the ponderous timber-wain resounds; In foamy breaks the rill, with merry song, Dashed o'er the rough rock, lightly leaps along; From lonesome chapel at the mountain's feet, Three humble bells their rustic chime repeat; 140 Sounds from the water-side the hammered boat; And 'blasted' quarry thunders, heard remote!

It is a destruction, which, if general but for ten years, would depopulate the world, blast the purposes of its creation, and extinguish the human race.

We were a night at Fores, in coming to which, in the dusk of the evening, we passed over the bleak and blasted heath where Macbeth met the witches.

Dear Sir, do not omit this true Relation, nor think it too particular; for there are Crowds of forlorn Coquets who intermingle themselves with other Ladies, and contract Familiarities out of Malice, and with no other Design but to blast the Hopes of Lovers, the Expectation of Parents, and the Benevolence of Kindred.

There are men that boast of debaucheries, of which they never had address to be guilty; ruin, by lewd tales, the characters of women to whom they are scarcely known, or by whom they have been rejected; destroy in a drunken frolick the happiness of families; blast the bloom of beauty, and intercept the reward of virtue.