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Modern specialists in plant diseases would recognize these ominous signs as symptoms of Phytophthora infestans, a species of fungus with rapid germinating properties and extremely virulent effects. To the half-savage, wholly uneducated peasantry, it was known simply as "the Blight," and regarded as a hellish, heaven-sent scourge. Holy-water and incantation were the only remedies invoked against it. Its onset marked the beginning of perhaps the most bitter famine in post-medieval European history...
Well, it was just about dusk when Mrs. Bridges started to take in the wash. It was on one of those hellish, back-breaking pulley lines. She had removed the first clothespin, when she lost her balance and hurtled out the window. She fell two stories to the concrete below into a space about as big as a closet. She struck the drainpipe to my aunt's flat and this broke her fall...
...anonymous informant of Dr. Benson Young Landis, writing in the National Conference of Jews & Christians News Service this week: "The liberal clergy are having a hell of a time." In New Jersey a pair of pastors who made much of their liberalism last week were having their hellish time right out in public...
...should blaze with incandescent light so many, many nights while Dunster, Adams, and Eliot towers carve but grey and humble silhouettes in the midnight sky? Whence comes the warrant for this lone, flamboyant panoply? Lowell House, is't not enough to curdle the bowels of the earth with the hellish bells...
...fought on the opposite side of the trenches during those fatal and hellish years, I profoundly regret that the Road to War comes, alas, just one month and 18 years too late...