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

He cursed the serpent, cursed the woman, cursed the man, and even cursed the ground beneath their feet Everything about at the time came in for a share of the malison.

From Bible Romances First Series by Foote, G. W. (George William)

My malison on all Blockheadisms and torpid stupidities and infidelities; of which this world is full!—

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

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

Then said the eunuch, 'Take up thy chests and begone with God's malison!'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John