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

She's ta'en the keys intill her hand, And threw them deep, deep in the sea; "Lie there wi' my sad malison, 40 Till my gude lord return to me."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

So he was in luck; but he had yet to learn that a mother's malison is sure to bring misfortune some time or another.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur

The mother puts her malison, or curse, upon him, but he rides off.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank

I apologised to Glasgow, inwardly confounding the eminent Scotch littérateur who had assured me that Glasgow was the most loathsome den north of Tweed, almost the only such den,—his malison upon Glasgow!

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel