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But now, there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name.

From True Stories of History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Further, he made the priests imprecate curses on any one who had dealings with the Persians or deserted the Greek cause.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart

But now there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name.

From Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Did not my father imprecate the wrath of Heaven upon me, if I held communion with her or hers?

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

So they implore and imprecate, turning themselves into the ugliest and fiercest creatures they can, to frighten the evil spirits that they believe have come against them on the outspread wings of the storm.

From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by I. Stone Sanpietro

I have undone them all, and will know no comfort—Then letting go his hold, and falling upon his knees, he imprecated curses on himself.

From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake

He resisted, he prayed, he imprecated; and his father, too, who had no idea of proclaiming the affair in this way, did his utmost to prevail upon them to leave Miss Rety's name unmentioned.

From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s

His defiance of Earl Grey was pronounced nearly the same time that he imprecated vengeance on the Sydney democracy.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West

He imprecated bitter curses on the palace where she died, and he ordered it to be destroyed.

From Richard II Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

The Padma Puran ascribes the origin of the particular form under which this symbol is represented, to the effects of a curse imprecated on Shiva by Bhrigu.

From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings

He throws effort into this record, whining, yammering, imprecating, imitating himself fabulously.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2011

Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Space was wanted, and moreover its bony, imprecating arms, long since bereft of beckoning fingers, menaced our safety.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

His peroration consisted of a luxuriant use of imprecating adjectives which stamped him as a person of original thought.

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Walter Runciman

Her two hands shot up, dropped, shot up again, imprecating, cursing the world, the sky, the whole scheme of the universe, it seemed.

From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens