Lexicographical Neighbors of Blighties
Literary usage of Blighties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 by John Frederick Bligh Livesay (1919)
"But most of them are good blighties, with clean bullet wounds." A good idea of
the character of the fighting throughout the day of Aug. ..."
2. Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by R. A. L., Anna Chapin Ray (1918)
"... you will get a fair deal, and everything will be done that can be done, when
you are in the line, and Fritz is "handing out blighties" rather liberally. ..."
3. That which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan (1918)
"... as deaf to occasional bursts of uproarious song from a draft of returning
blighties packed on the lower-deck, as to the siren's raucous shrieks. ..."
4. Over Here: Impressions of America by Hector MacQuarrie (1918)
"Past our battery position there was passing a few prisoners and a procession of
wounded—but mostly " blighties "; and I saw one sergeant with a German ..."
5. Cheerio! by Harold Melvin Hays (1919)
"We were talking of blighties, and wishing we could get one. One of my orderlies
came for me. I hadn't gotten more than fifty feet away when a 5.9 came along ..."
6. Psychical Phenomena and the War by Hereward Carrington (1918)
"'Well, he's ranged about knee high and got quite a number of our lads in the leg.
Dandy blighties, but one fellow, he got scared and tried to crawl across. ..."
7. Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 by John Frederick Bligh Livesay (1919)
"But most of them are good blighties, with clean bullet wounds." A good idea of
the character of the fighting throughout the day of Aug. ..."
8. Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by R. A. L., Anna Chapin Ray (1918)
"... you will get a fair deal, and everything will be done that can be done, when
you are in the line, and Fritz is "handing out blighties" rather liberally. ..."
9. That which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan (1918)
"... as deaf to occasional bursts of uproarious song from a draft of returning
blighties packed on the lower-deck, as to the siren's raucous shrieks. ..."
10. Over Here: Impressions of America by Hector MacQuarrie (1918)
"Past our battery position there was passing a few prisoners and a procession of
wounded—but mostly " blighties "; and I saw one sergeant with a German ..."
11. Cheerio! by Harold Melvin Hays (1919)
"We were talking of blighties, and wishing we could get one. One of my orderlies
came for me. I hadn't gotten more than fifty feet away when a 5.9 came along ..."
12. Psychical Phenomena and the War by Hereward Carrington (1918)
"'Well, he's ranged about knee high and got quite a number of our lads in the leg.
Dandy blighties, but one fellow, he got scared and tried to crawl across. ..."
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