malison
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There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I apologised to Glasgow, inwardly confounding the eminent Scotch littérateur who had assured me that Glasgow was the most loathsome den north of Tweed, almost the only such den,—his malison upon Glasgow!
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Then she has lock'd her cellar door, For there were fifty steps and three; 35 "Lie there wi' my sad malison, For this bad news ye've tauld to me."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
That words, which to use are a shame and a sin too, Had thus on their speaker recoiled, and his malison Placed in the hands of the Devil's own "pal" his son!--
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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 Geraldine Emma Hodgson
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