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

Back he drave them, rank on rank,Routed, with psalm, and malison, and ban,As from a sling flung forth. 

From The Legends of Saint Patrick by De Vere, Aubrey

Or else they may dread the malison that all men have who will not do them, when they had goods to do them with.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma

When the sentence was pronounced, the session of the court was adjourned, and the bishops, as they were guarded back to the castle, heard many a malison from the multitude who were ravenous against them.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

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 Rackham, Arthur