imprecate
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At other times he would imprecate maledictions upon his head, and curse him as her destroyer.
From The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori
Bowing my head to think—to pray—to imprecate, I lost all sense of time and place.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly.
From The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood
O Man: Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate This aged relic of the past because It lies across thy path!
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
If then this man was Laius, he had imprecated a curse on himself; his one hope is the solitary survivor whom he had sent for; perhaps more than one man had killed Laius after all.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
I have undone them all, and will know no comfort—Then letting go his hold, and falling upon his knees, he imprecated curses on himself.
From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake
"Sapristi!" imprecated Maryan, and immediately he laughed again.
From The Argonauts by Jeremiah Curtin
Those of you who were with Cambyses when sick remember what he imprecated on the Persians if they did not seek to regain the dominion.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
His defiance of Earl Grey was pronounced nearly the same time that he imprecated vengeance on the Sydney democracy.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
He throws effort into this record, whining, yammering, imprecating, imitating himself fabulously.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2011
Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her father, partaking of her grief, and imprecating the king of Egypt, did not doubt but this accident foretold some fatal event.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
And sullenly, with stealthy gestures of menace, they retreated towards the entrance; and gabbling more loudly as they approached it, seemed to be imprecating vengeance on those who cast them out.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
Space was wanted, and moreover its bony, imprecating arms, long since bereft of beckoning fingers, menaced our safety.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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