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
I apologised to Glasgow, inwardly confounding the eminent Scotch littérateur who had assured me that Glasgow was the most loathsome den north of Tweed, almost the only such den,—his malison upon Glasgow!
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
That words, which to use are a shame and a sin too, Had thus on their speaker recoiled, and his malison Placed in the hands of the Devil's own "pal" his son!--
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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 Arthur Rackham
Either to take the half of it with her blessing, or the whole of it with her malison.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
