potato-rot

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

Walden 2004

The first was the rapid success of our armies, coupled as it was with the exhibition of a military spirit and capacity for which European nations had not been prepared by anything in our previous history; and the second was the potato-rot, which brought Great Britain to the verge of famine, and broke up the Tory party.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

The potato-rot, it is said, has _concealed_ the effects of free-trade: distress in foreign nations has disabled them to purchase our manufactures in return for their rude produce; the increase of British importation has come too soon to operate as yet on their purchase of our manufactures.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

The potato-rot has appeared; and nearly the whole subsistence of the people in the south and west of Ireland, and in the western Highlands of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Those who held that Popery was the real cause of the potato-rot were influential, if not by their numbers, at least by their wealth; so they set about removing the fatal evil energetically.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

The potato-rot, which was to destroy, but little more than a year later, a quarter of a million lives, and make three million paupers, had already shown itself, and the condition of the people had long been pitiable.

Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

In August of this year the Queen and Prince sailed in their favorite yacht, the Victoria and Albert, for Ireland, taking with them their three eldest children, the better to show the Irish people that their sovereign had not lost confidence in them for their recent bit of a rebellion, which she believed was one-half Popery and the other half potato-rot.

Queen Victoria Her Girlhood And Womanhood Greenwood, Grace 1883

In August of this year the Queen and Prince sailed in their favorite yacht, the _Victoria and Albert_, for Ireland, taking with them their three eldest children, the better to show the Irish people that their sovereign had not lost confidence in them for their recent bit of a rebellion, which she believed was one-half Popery and the other half potato-rot.

Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Grace Greenwood 1863

The potato-rot had found him out here, too, the previous year, and got half or two thirds of his crop, though the seed was of his own raising.

The Maine Woods 1858

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

Walden~ Chapter 18 (historical) 1854