malison
Example Sentences
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There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found.
From Time Magazine Archive
The senses feel life's snow, But not less hot the tides of passion flow: Such is our earthly nature's malison!
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
She had risen to speak; the words were upon her lips: "Phrenzy to her heart was given, To speak the malison of Heaven," when she met the full and glaring force of Henry's flashing eyes.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
But in Cardiganshire the reverses and final extinction of the Lloyds of Maesyfelin were always ascribed to the effect of the pious Vicar's malison.
From Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Mary L. Lewes
With eyes glistening like witch-fires, did the dame bestow her malison.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
