malison

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taking a reproach where none was meant, he sprang up with a self-aimed malison upon his lack of care for me, stirred the fire alive and brewed me a most delicious-smelling cup of broth.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

But in Cardiganshire the reverses and final extinction of the Lloyds of Maesyfelin were always ascribed to the effect of the pious Vicar's malison.

From Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Lewes, Mary L.

And when his mother put it to him to take the half cake with her blessing, he took it instead of having the whole with her malison.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur

A malison light on the tongue, Sic tidings tells to me!—

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various