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'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

Back he drave them, rank on rank,Routed, with psalm, and malison, and ban,As from a sling flung forth. 

From The Legends of Saint Patrick by De Vere, Aubrey

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

When the sentence was pronounced, the session of the court was adjourned, and the bishops, as they were guarded back to the castle, heard many a malison from the multitude who were ravenous against them.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John