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 as to Pertolepe, a malison on him! he is not yet to die, meseemeth.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

Then she has lock'd her cellar door, For there were fifty steps and three; 35 "Lie there wi' my sad malison, For this bad news ye've tauld to me."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

A malison light on the tongue, Sic tidings tells to me!—

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

The senses feel life's snow, But not less hot the tides of passion flow: Such is our earthly nature's malison!

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas