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

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

“On me, if I stay in Brattingsborg,    Be every malison; If I have no horse on which to ride    I have legs on which to run.”

From The Expedition to Birting's Land and other ballads by Borrow, George Henry

Many of these are dying words like bide, dight, blithe, malison, vengeance, and since these are still spoken in other classes, it might be less difficult to restore them to educated speech.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English

It is only our gentle minstrel of the meres who sits in the seat of the scornful—only the hermit of Rydal Mount who invokes the malison of Nature.

From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John