maledict

Example Sentences

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It's all very well for you to maledict the curtain, Carl, but you must work up to it.

From Revenge! by Barr, Robert

In the third circle am I of the rain   Eternal, maledict, and cold, and heavy;   Its law and quality are never new.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Which magnanimously sounding conclusion, when translated according to the spirit of most who utter it, generally means: “Let him be maledict, excommunicate, and damnated ad inferos—in sæcula sæculorum!—twice over!”

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey

And I to him: "With weeping and with wailing,   Thou spirit maledict, do thou remain;   For thee I know, though thou art all defiled."

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

This love puts all humanity from me; I can but maledict her, pray her dead, For giving love and getting love of thee - Feeding a heart that else mine own had fed!

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas