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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See potato-rot.
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“Nations, pending the discharge of its more important functions, were to offer rewards for world-benefiting discoveries such as a prophylactic against potato-blight.”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
“There was a caricature of him in "Punch," as the real potato-blight.”
“When the potato-blight came, they died by thousands.”
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers
“The potato-blight was, at that time, assigned as the chief cause of the readiness to emigrate; for it damaged seriously the growth of a vegetable, from the sale of which, at the”
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