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

Or else they may dread the malison that all men have who will not do them, when they had goods to do them with.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma

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

“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

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