" And as the drums rolled out the dismal strain which meant disgrace for him and the blighting of all his hopes, he sat his horse with rigid face and eyes from which all life had fled.

When this curse to American labourscarcely less blighting than the; curse of negro slaveryshall have been once removed, the economic pressure exerted upon Europe by the United States will soon become very great indeed.

VII The blighting influence of constitutional strife and intestine war which followed in the Stuarts' reigns turned the serious artist's thoughts aside to grave and prophetic forms of literary utterance, while writers of the frivolous sort devoted their talent to a lighter and less sincere art than that of the short-storynamely, court-poetry.

Hogg's early ignorance of letters had at least this advantage, that it saved him from the blighting intellectual influences of his ageleft him unsophisticated, free to find in all things matter for wonder, and to work out his mental processes unprejudiced by a restraining knowledge of other men's past achievements.

And in the blighting shadow of Slavery letters die and art cannot live.

Instances of the unhappiness caused by such constraint, he gave in Songs of Experience, where The Garden of Love describes the blighting curse which church law had laid upon free love.

But in this sacred and calm retreat, We are all well and safely shielded From winds that blow, and waves that beat, From the cold, and rain, and blighting heat, To which the strongest hearts have yielded.

As the poet has himself said of the monodrama, "it is a little Hamlet," "the history of a morbid poetic soul, under the blighting influence of a recklessly speculative age.

We must show them that the destruction of a free people like Finland or Persia is not a local or distant disaster only, but affects the whole community of nations and spreads like a poison, blighting the growth of freedom in every land and encouraging all the black forces of tyranny, darkness, and suppression.

But in the wake of it was something elsesomething cold, blighting.

Whether either the hard blighting religion of Ann's father, or the aesthetic comfortable religion of her uncle "mattered" much to them? Were the things which "mattered" forging a religion of their own?

Don't you think that in this nerve-blighting work four or five hours, instead of eight, would be a pretty good day's work for girls just out of short clothes?" "It would seem so," sighed Katie, as she left the room filled with girls answering callsgirls looking too worn to respond to any "call" life might have for them.

It was twisted, as by something cruel, blighting, as she said just above a whisper: "There's no use pretending we don't know what it is.

They're getting stronger too, and it sounds like a lot more bombs going; hold on, there's that blighting maxim again.

Nor do its blighting effects end with homes wrecked, and children neglected, stunted and slain.

The wind blowing round the Cape is absolutely blighting, force 7 and temperature below -30°.

Although in this truly fearful cold the air was comparatively still, every now and again little puffs of wind came eddying across the snow plain with blighting effect.

This soil we have created for ourselves, By the hard labor of our hands; we've changed The giant forest, that was erst the haunt Of savage bears, into a home for man; Extirpated the dragon's brood, that wont To rise, distent with venom, from the swamps; Rent the thick misty canopy that hung Its blighting vapors on the dreary waste; Blasted the solid rock; across the chasm Thrown the firm bridge for the wayfaring man.

One man could care for only two or three acres, hence large scale cultivation required many handsresult, the importation of vast numbers of indentured servants and black slaves, with the blighting effects always consequent upon the presence of a servile class in a community.

For certain of these doughty Pacifists having told you how much their one object is to secure peace, then proceed to tell you that this thing which they hope to secure is a very evil thing, that under its blighting influence nations wane in luxury and sloth.

Where is he?" A dread fell upon both the men, blighting the joy with which they welcomed her back to life.

Heaping the stainless, virgin snow Above thy fragile form, that bowed Beneath the blighting frost that fell, Scattering o'er earth those gorgeous hues, Thy grace and pride, sweet Asphodel.

Sad echoes of unequal strife, Go sighing through the aftermath, That skirts the dark uncertain path, That leads me to the close of life; And years ago dark shadows fell Athwart the amber sky of youth, Blighting the bloom of hope and truth, That erst had blossom'd all too well.

These timely buds must early feel a blighting This earthly strifeah, 'tis a sorry fighting!

So high did feeling run there that Bishop Selwyn, as the friend of the Maori, was, in 1855, hooted in the streets of New Plymouth, where the local newspaper wrote nonsense about his "blighting influence."