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

Many of these are dying words like bide, dight, blithe, malison, vengeance, and since these are still spoken in other classes, it might be less difficult to restore them to educated speech.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English

With eyes glistening like witch-fires, did the dame bestow her malison.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

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

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