But the most important question: what do we call the blighter?. From Wordnik.com. [Londonist] Reference
Of course if you refused you were a "blighter" of the worst description. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
The sorry part of it was that that "blighter" in trying to get me had shot several other men. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
The obvious obstruction is the obstinate "blighter" with a machine-gun in front of them. From Wordnik.com. [Old Junk] Reference
Mrs. K calls me a 'blighter' day in and day out, sir and one has to put up with these outbursts. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
I wonder what 'blighter' is in French, "he said, meditating. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sally] Reference
Good luck, you lucky old blighter, and I mean that. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
An''ere's a poor blighter wots only got three months. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
With a rope or two we could drop the blighter through. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Lotus 1-2-3 and the Politics of 1992] Reference
"Don't anyone turn your back on this little blighter.". From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
"Hurry up, you blighter, " I muttered under my breath. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
So he'd tested it, had he, the arrogant little blighter. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
I've about as much chance of reaching the blighter as. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919] Reference
Rupprecht, the same blighter I was trying to do in at Loos. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
The blighter was laughing, heaving up and down in his chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
“Maybe we should hang the blighter!” jeered an angry guardian. From Wordnik.com. [The Welkening] Reference
Of course, the minute I got here I remembered who the blighter was. From Wordnik.com. [Best Detective Stories]
I think my soup-stained TPB copy just muttered “pushy little blighter.”. From Wordnik.com. [LA Times Festival of Books; Ingram Lists « Whatever] Reference
"'Bosch patrol half-left!' whispers I."'Stow it, you blighter,' says Ratty. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919] Reference
But heaven pity that black-moustached blighter if I ever get my hands on him. '. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
Sent away to school at seven, poor blighter, and his father killed the year after. From Wordnik.com. [Farthing] Reference
Even if the fat blighter took up two seats and had a huge staff it seems incredible. From Wordnik.com. [ODPM's UK travel bill] Reference
“If memory serves, it was by your own hand that the blighter was finally snagged.”. From Wordnik.com. [Unearthly Asylum] Reference
Only after the second helping of goat did Edmund say, "Where's that blighter Eustace?". From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
I decided a knife was best for the grisly task and plunged it into the little blighter. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
I couldn't decide whether this little blighter was going to turn out well for me or not. From Wordnik.com. [Flash For Freedom]
I trust Lord Bonkers will give the blighter a good horsewhipping on the steps of his club. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Bonkers in the Guardian] Reference
'The horse isn't foaled that could frighten that blighter Sandy,' he said with admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
If one thing had qualified that blighter for the Senate, it was his inborn sense of divinity. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
One of my regular commenters, a blighter named KD, once said he wished it could be 1970 again. From Wordnik.com. [Cat Blogging: The Incredibly Awesome Adventure of Willoughby the Kitten] Reference
“Try it, ye bloody blighter, and see what happens if you change a single thing about him.”. From Wordnik.com. [Black Dust Mambo] Reference
One of them would slyly say, "Darby, 'oo th' blinkin '' ell was this blighter, General Grant?". From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
As I was sayin ', he hit old Alf in the foot, and Mr Biles says to me,' We'll get that blighter. '. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
I had spotted the blighter a long time ago, but there was still ample time to take evasive action. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
What's a blighter like that to old Fritz's shells?. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
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