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
She had risen to speak; the words were upon her lips: "Phrenzy to her heart was given, To speak the malison of Heaven," when she met the full and glaring force of Henry's flashing eyes.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
"Take a father's malison with you, unhappy wretch!" said Lord Huntinglen.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
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
So he spake in malison, and darkness p. 124veiled her eyes, and there the sacred strength of the sun did waste her quite away.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
