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

When the sentence was pronounced, the session of the court was adjourned, and the bishops, as they were guarded back to the castle, heard many a malison from the multitude who were ravenous against them.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

St Martin's malison light on ye—fire, billets, and all—I've seen nothing like to warm my bare nose and knuckles since we left Halton, two long days agone.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Does a bookseller misdirect a parcel, he exclaims, 'My malison on all Blockheadisms and Torpid Infidelities of which this world is full.'

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

Or else they may dread the malison that all men have who will not do them, when they had goods to do them with.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma