imprecate
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O Man: Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate This aged relic of the past because It lies across thy path!
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly.
From The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood
Bowing my head to think—to pray—to imprecate, I lost all sense of time and place.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Daughter, to thy father go back with good cheer; nor imprecate swift death upon us, nor let choler shake thy bosom.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
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
He banned them bitterly; with uplifted hands and eyes he imprecated the vengeance of Heaven on their disobedience.
From Folk-lore and Legends: German by Anonymous
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 Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
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
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
That is to say, it is His enemies on whom the judgements are imprecated.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
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
He peered down upon the head of the luckless nurse, mutely imprecating.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
Within the room the men and women jostled each other in the darkness, or jammed imprecating in the narrow doorway.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge
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