imprecate
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How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
V. To curse, accurse, imprecate, scold, rail, execrate.
From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton
To be a thorough expert in dog-training a man must be able to imprecate freely and with considerable variety in at least three different languages.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler
O thou guileful betrayer! there is a just God, whom thou invokest: yet the thunderbolt descends not; and thou livest to imprecate and deceive!
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson
In the station, men wept and imprecated in their despair; twice they tried to go to the rescue of the beleaguered men, but could not reach them.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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
Together they broke a gold coin, of which each wore a half, and solemnly called upon God to witness them plighting their troth, and together imprecated dreadful evils upon the one who should prove faithless.
From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang
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
That it was by no means consistent that now, when it was lawful and their duty, they should not exert their power against persons, on whom they had severally imprecated the vengeance of the gods.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
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
The young couple broke a piece of gold together, and pledged their troth in the most solemn manner, the young lady, it is said, imprecating dreadful evils on herself should she break her plighted faith.
From Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
Her father, partaking of her grief, and imprecating the king of Egypt, did not doubt but this accident foretold some fatal event.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
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
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