For from November to May, fever stalked abroad over the plains and among the foothills, seeking human prey, and hardly any who ventured during these months into the dominion of the fever king escaped his Blighting grip.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The power that seemed to dwell there at times was gone now; crushed all that impersonal emotion of the writer's mind by the Blighting personal emotion of the man.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
Now he knew it was no little quarrel that had sent Nina away; it was something far more tragic than that; it was the sudden Blighting of a life's hopes.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black