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

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

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

But in Cardiganshire the reverses and final extinction of the Lloyds of Maesyfelin were always ascribed to the effect of the pious Vicar's malison.

From Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Lewes, Mary L.

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