The phrases creating a tone of foreboding are:
- "strange blight;"
- "evil spell;"
- "mysterious maladies;"
- "shadow of death."
<em>Foreboding</em> means predicting or announcing that something bad is about to happen. Taking the answers one by one, you can see how they relate to the same ominous idea:
- a "strange blight" and "evil maladies" refer to a destructive condition which no-body can explain;
- an "evil spell" means that it is interpreted as a magical curse;
- the "shadow of death" is a metaphor meaning that death is coming to the crops or cattle (depending on the original text excerpt).
We used the word preserver because they lasted so long.
slowly feeling my arms and legs swiftly swimming through the swimming lane
You need to make Lisa Lisa's forty five forty-five put commas after guests and and after friends and a semicolon after midnight and a period at the end.
The subject and verb don't agree, the revised sentence should be
"Sequoia and Charles plan to exercise together."