| 1. | Lynde says Myrtle Bell is a blighted being. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 2. | The more I examined the situation, the more blighted it became. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 3. | 'All, all is against me she has blighted my single consolation. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 4. | By dinner-time I had almost forgotten blighted Motty's existence. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 5. | The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | But Ahab's glance was averted like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 8. | That woman, who has so abused your long- suffering, so sullied your name, so outraged your honour, so blighted your youth, is not your wife, nor are you her husband. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | Christfox in leather trews, hiding, a runaway in blighted treeforks, from hue and cry. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |