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
His heart was warm, his pride was up;25 Sweet Willie kentna fear; But yet his mither's malison Ay sounded in his ear.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
With eyes glistening like witch-fires, did the dame bestow her malison.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
So at last he made up his mind to take the whole of it, even if he had to bear his mother's malison.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
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 Mary L. Lewes
