commination

Example Sentences

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Then Oliver had a try; but in a minute he, too, was reciting the commination service.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

They toiled upward with stubborn determination, and wasted breath in voluble commination of the length of the way, when they could have employed it more usefully in compassing it.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

Had he chosen another interpretation and delayed, and been mistaken, then, too, commination would have fallen.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

Until, at last, after one or two heavy falls of his own occasioning, Tom gave it up, spluttered a final commination on his opponent, and turned to go home.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by Oxenham, John

The probability seems to be that, besides collecting from all sources known to him, the pedler had hired an able artist for the production of original poems of commination.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George