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 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 Mary L. Lewes
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 Thomas Carlyle
With eyes glistening like witch-fires, did the dame bestow her malison.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
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 Francis Lynde
