silent curse

Example Sentences

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Oh, a wife may revile such a man with every silent curse she knows.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Drusus uttered a deep and silent curse on himself for the mad bravado that led him to leave the palace with but thirty men; why had he not waited to assemble more?

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

If you do not, an old man’s curse will rest upon you; and even though I be dead, and mouldering in my grave, where my voice cannot reach you, that silent curse will follow you.’

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

With a silent curse he reached in and felt until his hand closed around the leather packet of sight bills, the ones he would exchange for the indentures.

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas

By wordless blessing, or by silent curse,      By act and motive,—so do you define      The image which time copies, line by line, For the great gallery of the Universe.

From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Marden, Orison Swett