malison
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There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found.
From Time Magazine Archive
“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
The mother puts her malison, or curse, upon him, but he rides off.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
So he was in luck; but he had yet to learn that a mother's malison is sure to bring misfortune some time or another.
From English Fairy Tales by Arthur Rackham
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 Augustine Birrell
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