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

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 Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson

If this be done, I should have peace from all my malison.

From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Murray, Gilbert

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

My malison on all Blockheadisms and torpid stupidities and infidelities; of which this world is full!—

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas