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

But as to Pertolepe, a malison on him! he is not yet to die, meseemeth.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

"Take a father's malison with you, unhappy wretch!" said Lord Huntinglen.

From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir

She had risen to speak; the words were upon her lips:    "Phrenzy to her heart was given,    To speak the malison of Heaven," when she met the full and glaring force of Henry's flashing eyes.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana

But in Cardiganshire the reverses and final extinction of the Lloyds of Maesyfelin were always ascribed to the effect of the pious Vicar's malison.

From Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Lewes, Mary L.