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

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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright

I have no sorcerer's malison on me, No ghostly hauntings like his Highness.

From The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

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

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 Fullerton, Georgiana