But no; Mr. Swipes said the weather and the black blight had destroyed them.

Those in the centre of the eyot were black with swallows-likethe black blight on beans.

That is why last Sunday's show was such a black blight to them and to us.

They were smaller now, stunted by late spring frosts, midwinter thaws, and the black blight of snow mold.

I never could make a rhyme in my life, and have faithfully shunned printer's ink, the black blight of the painter.