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
If this be done, I should have peace from all my malison.
From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Gilbert Murray
“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 George Henry Borrow
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 John Ruskin
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
