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 Zangwill, Israel

She's ta'en the keys intill her hand, And threw them deep, deep in the sea; "Lie there wi' my sad malison, 40 Till my gude lord return to me."

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

Either to take the half of it with her blessing, or the whole of it with her malison.

From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson

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