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

His heart was warm, his pride was up;25 Sweet Willie kentna fear; But yet his mither's malison Ay sounded in his ear.

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

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

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

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John