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
But as to Pertolepe, a malison on him! he is not yet to die, meseemeth.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
Now the goodman was dreadfully put out when he found his son was going away, and still more so when he heard he had chosen his mother's malison.
From English Fairy Tales by Arthur Rackham
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
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
