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

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 Lang, Andrew

“On me, if I stay in Brattingsborg,    Be every malison; If I have no horse on which to ride    I have legs on which to run.”

From The Expedition to Birting's Land and other ballads by Borrow, George Henry

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

Now the goodman was dreadfully put out when he found his son was going away, and still more so when he heard he had chosen his mother's malison.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur