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

My malison on all Blockheadisms and torpid stupidities and infidelities; of which this world is full!—

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

A malison light on the tongue, Sic tidings tells to me!—

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

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 have no sorcerer's malison on me, No ghostly hauntings like his Highness.

From The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron