英语词汇“malediction”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

For every man who tried to rub her head, there were three who muttered maledictions under their breath when she went by. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I talked straight through the night, and he silently took my confes sions, maledictions, as though he were some font of blessing at which I might leave a final belated tithe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They dug up the front yard for buried maledictions but found nothing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is he suffering from an Alzheimeresque affliction, Makes him wallow in malevolent malediction, Spewing folderol and extrajudicial fiction? Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Perhaps because Nasreen's presence in the narrative is a disembodied one, we experience her as a kind of evil spirit in the online ether, a curiously spectral source of malediction and misfortune. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z

He surely brought some of the maledictions on himself. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

But her writing, once you acclimate to its gargoyle extravagance, has the power of malediction. An Operatic Italian Classic Gets a Fresh Translation 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Badoglio then spent three months entreating his cemetery spirits to undo the malediction, until Mr. Zeffirelli was able to begin filming again. Telling Fashion’s Fortune 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

But it isn't only because it's a corrective to whatever version of decorum happens to be current that the novel of disrespect and malediction – there's no agreed term for the genre – matters. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z

“They include alienating Trump and incurring his malediction, and discovering that there are just not enough anti-Trump Republicans to win him a swing-state primary,” he said. Teasing 2024 White House bid, Christie urges GOP to move past Trump 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Despite this Sisyphean malediction, with each call for new proposals, the community still tries to push its boulder back to the mountaintop. Is NASA about to Lift the ‘Venus Curse?’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

A salvor who declines to donate their winnings to the poor no longer risks “the curse and malediction of our mother the holy church,” as the law was written in the 1100s. Explorers can take Titanic’s Marconi telegraph, cutting into wreck for first time 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

James, 13, who was eliminated during Wednesday’s third round by the word “malediction,” said the opportunity to meet people and represent his home have been the most rewarding parts of the contest. ‘It’s honestly amazing’: Foiled by ‘knoll,’ a 7-year-old looks ahead to next year’s Spelling Bee 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

As the Meyerbeer scholar Robert Letellier observes, blessing has been “reversed to its dark side of malediction.” The Dark, Prophetic Vision of Giacomo Meyerbeer 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Trump is at his desk, tweeting curses and maledictions at his enemies. Trump the Opera 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Freedom is rather the subject of the author’s malediction. Hostage to a Bull Market 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

That malediction applies with equal force to Ethan Couch, Bill Clinton and his cronies, and any number of Kennedys. The 'affluenza teen' is just another example of privilege with no conscience | Chris Lehmann 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

It was less a speech than a sermon, as Reagan himself understood—a malediction against the evils of income taxes, federal spending, central planning, godless Communism, and government controls on commerce and freedom. The Reagan Reflex 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

So many princes of the church have served it so badly for so many decades that it’s hard to keep track of their maledictions. Gotham: A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace 2014-02-20T02:01:07Z

For a long time, the Giants seemed haunted by some malediction from their departure from New York. Sports of The Times: Giants Left Their Hearts at Coogan’s Bluff 2013-01-13T22:20:09Z

"I told Dr. Pendarvis that I expected in secret you were heaping maledictions on my defenceless head." A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z

As Stapylton lay back in his carriage, he could not help muttering a malediction on the "dear friend" he had just parted with. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z

A grunt,—it might be assent, it sounded like malediction. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z

But what team ever had to cope with maledictions from the sacred ground it deserted as well as the pastoral site it occupied a full continent away? Sports of The Times: George Vecsey: Maybe the Dodgers Are Cursed 2012-04-07T16:02:19Z

And he that was least bitter in his maledictions was most at a discount. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z

For some time they pursued their fun unnoticed during the general bustle, and quite undisturbed by the muttered maledictions of their victims. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z

She told him the truth, the plain hard truth, heaping maledictions on his head unless he gave up his evil ways, forsook his godless companions, and returned home. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z

And again Matthew started off faster than before to find Mrs. Marks, with an inward malediction on Goody Grey. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z

Jimmy paused, remembering his audience, just in time to stop the malediction on his tongue. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z

Then we work in a moral as well, you see, and avoid malediction, which can only mean bad language. Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z

Heavy is the virgins’ malediction; When they sigh, their sighs reach God’s high presence; When they curse, the world begins to tremble; When they weep, even God is touch’d with pity.” Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z

Yes," pursued Mrs. V——, "nurse still recurs to that 'awful cold night in A——' with an invariable malediction upon the 'bad speret as kept the chair.' The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z

With a muttered malediction between his teeth, he rang the bell, and was ushered into the hall. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z

The sin of Ham degraded him to the condition of a churl; and upon the partition of the world between the three brethren Noah pronounced a malediction against him. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z

But the woman's malediction did not bring fear to the doctor who, stopping short in her walk, could scarcely restrain a shout of joy. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z

Happily the chatelaine was at home to defend her penates, whilst old Jug shrieked maledictions on the party like a frantic Chorus. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z

He might as well take his stand on the brink of the great cataract, and think by the force of prayers or maledictions to stop the flowing of the mighty waters. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z

Ruy Lopez continued, in a jargon of Spanish and Latin, to fulminate anathemas, maledictions, and threats of excommunication, which, at that time, had such influence upon the mass of the people. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z

Her uncle and aunt, neither more than half dressed, were accusing her loudly of her crime and heaping maledictions on her head. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z

I called down the most frightful maledictions both upon Emma and myself. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z

I usually have the means of appeasing, if not of satisfying him, but on the rare occasions when I have had no money the yells and maledictions have been awful. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z

I appeal from his profane malediction to the conscience of men who have a rule to judge by. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z

Thus it was customary for the Siberian hunting races to utter a malediction: May your enemy live like a Tartar, and have the folly to engage in the breeding of cattle. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z

Towards the conclusion of his malediction Esquemeling's wrath unfortunately gets much the better of his grammar. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z

At the least, she felt that here she could, when her time came, die without a malediction on her lips. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z

Maximilian never liked the French, and his letters abound in maledictions against them. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z

George pronounced a malediction against Percy and all his tomatoes. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z

He sang peans of victory over the downfall at Yorktown; he exalted the fame of Washington; he called down maledictions on the ship that bore the "worthless Arnold" from American shores. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z

That's a comfortable litany to part with—a form of blessing elevated so neatly, at the close, into a malediction. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z

Riches and high looks are the signs of malediction; humility, poverty, persecution, tears, are the marks of piety and the pledges of divine affection. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z

Jimmy uttered inarticulate cries of real rage and malediction, vomiting his squibs straight at the champion's eyes with intent to do him grievous bodily injury. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z

Our guide came to me, uttering maledictions on the stumbling beast. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z

His godship was very discriminating in the goodness and freshness of these offerings; for he rejected such as were stale, to be returned next morning, with his maledictions, to the fraudulent donors. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z

I came up quickly behind them, and could overhear their complaints at having mistaken the road, and their maledictions, muttered in no gentle spirit, on the stupid mountaineers who could not understand French. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z

In the matter of praise and blame Carlile ran the whole gamut, from the highest crescendo of approval to the basso profundi of malediction. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z

Ejected, excommunicated as it were, loaded with malediction, they are regarded as the outcasts of society, yea almost, of humanity itself. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z

He will be blessed and happy who for Christ suffers malediction and insults from false hypocrites, because false malediction becomes a blessed benediction to the righteous. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z

I exclaimed exultingly, in reply to the maledictions he showered on us. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z

With a vengeance are these curses and maledictions tender! Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z

He laughed; recovered health; but then, Morgana, thy great foe, With malediction spoiled thy pains, and wrought a double woe. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z

Already he was secretly repenting that he had cursed him; and he would have recalled his maledictions if he could have done so without raising the ire of his wife. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z

In fact you may well laugh at the maledictions of my parents. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z

And she stretched out her broom in an attitude of malediction towards the spot where Pritchard had disappeared. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z

Amidst the clamour of shrieks, groans, and maledictions, for the havoc our broadside had caused was immense, two white men sprang over the side of the Algerine and began to swim in our direction. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z

As boats against a running tide the tug triumphant tows, So let my malediction strong still lead thee by the nose. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z

Her very maledictions drove him to his new leader Christ. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z

Moral justice dissents from the habitual sneer, denunciation, and malediction, which have become consecrated forms of piety in speaking of the South. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z

Every evening he passed over the roads, visiting his tenants, wrapped up even in springtime in his old cloak, shabby and looking like a beggar, while maledictions and hostile gestures followed after him. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z

Again the Furies stop as they see Orpheus approaching, and they sing a malediction upon this mortal so audacious. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z

He shook his fist at the upturned canoe and poured forth a perfect torrent of maledictions against it. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z

But because muskets are nowadays rarely made of iron, and the large ones never, but of a certain mixture of copper and tin, they confer more maledictions on copper and tin than on iron. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z

I was almost sorry to be obliged to withhold my intended malediction. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z

The two little ones, frightened, took refuge in the arms of their elder brother, and the father rushed about like a madman, roaring maledictions. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z

But he is now awakened to her wickedness, and the scene opens with his maledictions against her and his abject wretchedness over his own disgrace. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z

May the evil that one of you wishes another fall back upon his own head; this is the malediction of the prophet. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z

While pursuing the details of science, he was in no danger of falling under the poet's malediction on him, "Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes." The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z

At the moment of starting my shirts were brought in dripping wet, and Paul bestowed a malediction upon the Greek while he wrung them out and tumbled them into my carpet-bag. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z

There was nothing for it now but to let myself patiently be dragged about by them, after I had muttered something, that might as well have been taken for a malediction as a felicitation. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z

Liberty brings benedictions in spite of nature, and in defiance of the same nature tyranny brings maledictions. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z

And what can the end be but a blasting malediction from the Master? Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z

Men would utter savage maledictions when they felt the demon claws suddenly clutch them; girls shrieked and fled to the nearest cottage, into which they would rush, palpitating with terror. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z

I could distinguish words of various tongues, English, Irish, German, and many unfamiliar and disjointed cries, imprecations, and maledictions. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z

“Get hence,” cried Garnet, unable to control his indignation, “or I will pronounce our Church's most terrible malediction against you.” Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z

They were the elders, the senate of the school, and at sight of Briggs they muttered malediction and cautioned silence. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z

Vondel, however, did not pause in his path one instant, answering their maledictions with stinging satire, and their abuse with overwhelming invective. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z

Why are there corns, with their miseries and maledictions? Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z

His mouth worked as if he were trying to utter some malediction. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z

After supper and a pipe they all turned in, leaving the bank president still sulking and uttering terrible maledictions under his breath. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z

A withered root of one of the plants is still exhibited to show the result of the Divine malediction on the vine which occasioned his drunkenness. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z

The other occupants of the tent made their appearance on 125 the run, uttering maledictions and cries of grief and wonderment. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z

She traces back the solemnity in all its horrid details; she recalls the maledictions with which she was whelmed by those who just before commiserated her. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z

Luther teaches that "Christ did truly and effectually feel for all mankind, the wrath of God, malediction and death." My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z

And here he burst into a flood of maledictions against Mohammed and his religion. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z

Bolton soon had his ears ringing with messages and maledictions from Detroit and Mackinac, buried still farther in the wilderness, and all looking to Niagara for food and clothing. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z

Shield me by day from hatred’s threat’ning frowns, Still let thine aromatic curtains spread, When bold presumption mounts to put me down, And hurls his maledictions round my head. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z

I uttered the most fearful maledictions, the most horrible curses--they tore me from my mother's lifeless corpse.... Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague 2011-07-27T02:00:26.233Z

"Ah, curse me not!" exclaimed Govinda, with a cry of horror; for in the anguish of that moment he felt as if the bitter malediction, thus unconsciously pronounced, was already fulfilling. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z

Then as they came on at a steady trot with the poles of the lurching hammock upon their woolly crowns, he stamped on the flooring; and even a sleepy Krooboy started at his vivid maledictions. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z

From the time he left his father’s house he had seldom heard the divine name except in some form of malediction, and religion had brought no consolation to his hard life. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z

"Only yon priest should not have it all his own way with his maledictions," grumbled the judge. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z

And believe that if any evil befall us, it will not have come from that angry woman's malediction. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z

And against those who disregard it, a fearful malediction has been uttered by the Great Head of the Church. A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing 2011-07-10T02:00:22.780Z

The Brazilian Captain, with a terrible malediction, broke his sword over his knee. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z

O woman that cursest in the darkness, come now to the light, that we may hear thy maledictions more plainly, and be refreshed by the beauty of thy countenance. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z

The Belgian lancer followed more slowly, uttering maledictions under his breath at every step. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z

He earned the anger of the gods and the malediction of the world, then and for all time. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z

Old Jonas frowned heavily, and further betrayed his irritation by a smothered malediction that included the entire negro race. The Bishop and the Boogerman 2011-06-12T02:00:07.497Z

He broke out into a volley of fearful maledictions upon her, himself, and the "beast" who had given him the job, tearing up the telegram into inch pieces and tossing them insolently into Margaret's lap. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z

I passed my uncle’s residence, brimful of maledictions against its wicked proprietor. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z

Eagerly inquiring after Poe, he learned that he was not considered a genteel person in America, Baudelaire withdrew, muttering maledictions. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z

The man's dark face hardened and more than one of those expressive maledictions broke from him as he thought over it. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z

But I have not been in the mood of letter writing, and am prepared for maledictions from all my neglected friends but you. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z

The skulking, demonized face in the doorway glared with frantic fury at the proud, high countenance on the wall, and a malediction burst from the writhing lips in a hissing whisper. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z

As she stood there, in the shelter of the wall, she suddenly heard the governor's voice uttering maledictions and imprecations, and the next moment he came blundering down the stone steps from the parapet. 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God 2011-05-26T02:00:15.987Z

To this malediction the other did not answer; stepped down and, again seated in his corner, waited, while the light that had grudgingly entered the narrow aperture grew fainter. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z

He sprang to his feet and gave vent to a frightful malediction; then he grew calm through sheer astonishment. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z

Burton rolled Lem over on his back, and left him to exhaust the maledictions he was heaping upon their heads. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z

Having prevented the provinces from coming to the rescue of Paris and voted its thanks to the army, it also joined its maledictions to those of the rurals. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z

And was this the woman who died uttering curses, and denouncing her persecutors—whose terrible maledictions cling to my own life? Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z

Often did the women raise their voices in abuse of all books of chivalry, overwhelming their authors with the bitterest maledictions. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z

But it was the lashing trees that deceived the eye; it stood immovable, proud, strong, while the evil ones hurled their maledictions and screamed defiance at the very door of God's own heart. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z

A siege of coughing choked his maledictions and blood issued from his mouth. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z

The spurned fans sent out maledictions like some early version of a drone aircraft, to circle the globe until they found the perpetrators who took our team. Sports of The Times: A Cosmic Comeuppance for the Dodgers 2011-04-29T01:39:54Z

The neighbors called him a fool; the wife joined in the maledictions—and who could blame her? Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z

Frau Pastorin said she should be glad to have him stay, and the evening was spent in maledictions on his side, and efforts at pacification upon hers. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z

For in the cross fire of mutual maledictions mankind would have perished long ago, not excepting the best and wisest of men as well as the most beautiful and charming women. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z

The vicious thorns had torn and stabbed maledictions into his hands. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z

With many inward maledictions on my companions I went to bed. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z

The farmer hailed us, but only to relieve his soul by shouting a malediction on the Dutch. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z

I finished with a storm of maledictions so blasphemously horrible, and which I delivered with such wild and awful force, that even the stolid negroes staggered back and rolled their eyes. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z

Forester, whose impatience had now been carried beyond endurance, paced the room with hurried strides, muttering, between his teeth, every possible malediction on the whole race of innkeepers, barmaids, waiters,—even down to Boots himself. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z

And, with a hearty malediction on him, Ladarelle concluded his meditation, and went off to sleep. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z

Aye, we would deliver up our country to calamities without number, and the people's maledictions will fall upon our memory, which should remain dear to the human race.... The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z

“Are you aware of the time, and that Lady Bell’s hall porter is uttering maledictions for our tardiness?” he said, playfully. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z

He gave me similar replies, and I rewarded him with similar maledictions. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z

Drogheda recalls Cromwell to every Irishman, usually with a malediction, for it was here that the massacre occurred which made and still makes the Great Protector anathema in Catholic Ireland. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z

He left, too angry for good-nights, with a last scattering of maledictions, leaping down the steps and swinging off across the garden. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z

And he began to spit about him, and stamp his feet, threatening the innocent Yakut earth with tightened lips and his shrivelled hands, and muttering Jewish maledictions. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z

The guests all wished to retire: the first person, however, to leave the house was Teodoro, expelled by his father and bearing with him the paternal malediction. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z

Once she thought She saw, betwixt a tree-top and the moon, A witches form with Elpsie's face, and heard, Or thought she heard, harsh maledictions fall! Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en 2011-02-28T03:00:33.577Z

Giulia, after a silent malediction, assumed a friendly smile and greeted the lame critic, who limped into the room upon his crutch. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z

Despite the malediction of Holy Church, the trim Dutchman swept on nearly a quarter of a mile ahead. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z

Cursing is also different from prediction of evil, and some passages in the Imprecatory Psalms, though couched in terms of malediction, are prophecies of the future, rather than curses. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z

Your tomb shall be covered with maledictions, and amidst them will your last end be remembered. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z

As she passed, unheeding that the last friend had forsaken her, he collected his failing energies, spat after her, raised his hands with malediction, and spoke bitter words of execration. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z

With many a yawn and sigh subjective, with, I greatly fear me, many a malediction objective, you are "learning the language of another world." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z

Mr Afton loudly pronounced his maledictions against such “half-way” courses; and there were at first some dark scowls seen among the men. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z

Hastily seizing his outstretched arm, and raising his voice in order to drown the maledictions of the monk, he cried aloud, “Depart from me, rash villain, cowled spy!” The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z

A terrible oath, uttered in all the vehemence of a malediction, burst from Martin, and seizing Scanlan's wrist, he shook his arm in an agony of passion. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z

A muttered malediction from the servant increased her terror, and she uttered a faint cry. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z

You mutter maledictions on the infernal noise and caterwauling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z

“I hope that she may be worth the trouble she is likely to give us,” muttered Afton, with his usual maledictions. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z

He tossed his clenched fists skyward, and followed such a lurid stream of malediction, in consideration of some lily-minded reader, I will not set it down. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z

The eloquent malediction of the blindness of subjugated peoples drew a unanimous cry of admiration from the Lebrenn family. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z

By her side crouched an aged woman who mumbled incessantly, mingling wails, maledictions, and incomprehensible reminiscences of her childhood with fragments of prayers and scraps of biblical texts. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z

In that event—malediction! a curse upon her! The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z

Are there maledictions of sufficient vehemence to penetrate the carapace in which you have wrapped up your understanding? Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z

This parting maternal malediction seemed to work no visibly corresponding effect upon Lucy; already she was so marble-white, that fear could no more blanch her, if indeed fear was then at all within her heart. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z

No black crow am I by birth, but an unhappy prince, suffering under a malediction, and doomed to pass my years in this miserable condition. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z

The maledictions and menaces from above were answered by an enthusiastic clamor from below. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z

Old Jed shuffled behind, a toothless Nemesis gasping maledictions in stuffy tones. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

Thousandacres actually roared like a maddened bull, and he was soon hoarse with uttering his menaces and maledictions. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z

THE man Dante Alighieri received unforgivable affronts and insults from the world; and the poet Dante Alighieri bequeathed his immortal curse to it, in the sublime malediction of the Inferno. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war on our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z

"He's a ———— who will ruin us all," was the repeated malediction. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z

The roar of voices behind—voices entreating, voices of malediction—made her smile. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

He would be sure on his return to bestow hearty maledictions on Deslauriers, for he wished to keep his word, and in the meantime, to oblige Arnoux. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z

He cursed the hour of his birth; he hurled his maledictions against God, who had kept him alive all these long years to deprive him of the fruits of his hopes and his patience. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z

The proprietor raved, and stormed, and became violent in his language and behavior, threatening terrible punishment on all the runaways, but the appearance of a body of Union cavalry put an end to maledictions. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z

But at last the owner of the hovel removed a broken shutter from an upper window, and thrusting out his head, growled a malediction upon the person disturbing him. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z

I tell you he was a master of malediction! Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z

The malediction is a higher form of oath, and some maledictions are magnificent. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z

And uttering maledictions on the head of the attorney and his Jew, Rosi locked the door of her mistress's room and made the best of her way to the kitchen. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z

The boy threatened the two with a gesture of his arms, and his lips moved as if they were murmuring a grim malediction. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z

Her aunt, vanquished and prostrate, raised her hand as if in malediction and muttered hoarsely: "Take her then and begone, in the devil's name!" The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z

Their object was to denounce the fugitive slave law; and this was done with hearty good-will, or, we should say, malediction. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z

The islands had “gotten to” Private Grant and “locoed” him, and he had breathed sulphurous maledictions against Captain Comyn’s life—but it was not those threats that now disturbed the company commander. The Law of Hemlock Mountain

It is in the name of Christ, and not of God as with us, that imprecations, curses, and maledictions are invoked. A Cursory History of Swearing

I have always noticed myself that the saints in heaven cry ‘Halleluiah,’ which is Hebrew, but, as I’m a sinful man, I cannot guess how it may be with maledictions.” The Great Mogul

The malediction which he invoked upon the builders of the ghastly temple, was unheard; for the spectacle froze his blood and paralyzed his tongue. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico

However, in spite of our maledictions, I am really glad for their sake, although I could wish it deferred till we reach land. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

They assembled at Tara, fasted against the king,27 and laid their solemn malediction upon him and the seat of his government. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race

But I had to tramp it back on my own feet, with Miser Hobby's malediction on my head as well as on theirs. Deep Moat Grange

Prime's too vivid imagination pictured an impending catastrophe, and the canoe thief, no less than Watson Grider, came in for wordless and despairing maledictions. Stranded in Arcady

She turned again to gaze at the heavy iron knocker, and just then a piercing animal yelp of pain or fright reached her, followed by a foul malediction in a man's rough voice. The Man from Jericho

It was the madness of utter ecstasy—wails of laughter and happy maledictions—and then for that unopened magnum! Witching Hill

As for his mother, she had received her with reproaches and maledictions, and a year had elapsed before tolerable relations were established between the two. The Wish A Novel

The language of malediction rushed from him, hot and pestiferous, as if it had come from the bottomless pit, reeking with sulphur and brimstone. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893

Under their combined weights, DeLancy was flung, hoarse and screaming maledictions, to the couch, where despite objurgations and ravings Granning secured his arms behind his back with a strap and hobbled his legs. Making Money

At the name, Anne saw again the lank mountaineer of the loose joints and the uncombed hair, who this morning had parted from her mumbling maledictions against Boone. The Tempering

Every body came to buy corn at the farm, and went away pouring maledictions on the Black Brothers. The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers A Legend of Stiria.

Ferraringi's answer, as he wriggled free, was a torrent of malediction—and a blinding flash. The Night Operator

It may be evidence that all the malediction upon the poet above quoted is not deserved. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16

Joos’s shrill voice, raised in malediction of all Prussians, soon decided that fact. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914

Then the mother would heap feminine maledictions on the poor Colonel's head, and so together they would weep and think of revenge. Ayala's Angel

The captain and his aids dragged off the condemned man, who mingled threats and maledictions with his entreaties. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century.

Of this universal malediction, the Cholulan was honored with more than his appropriate share. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1

Then, after launching a malediction against the poor hunter, he asked us whether we should dare to eat that black flesh? Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2

Then he turns out the light and goes his way, and he certainly carries with him my own hearty maledictions, if not those of my fellow prisoners. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York

We spoke of the rain, and I foolishly enough, in mentioning all the annoyance it had occasioned me, loaded it with maledictions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847

I asked of Bellamy, while Byron, grumbling maledictions, hammered under the truck. Careers of Danger and Daring

With many a malediction on all newfangled notions, he plodded on, occasionally coming to the end of an impassable gallery, or now straying into rooms in total darkness. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience

The four appertaining to speech are: words sowing discord, insulting maledictions, impudent lies, and hypocritical expressions. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2

May that malediction graven by some one of the first followers of the Apostles upon a martyr's tomb never fall upon me! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15

So ended his career of infamy in his native land; a land which had once delighted to honor him, but in which his name was never thenceforth to be pronounced without a malediction. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools

He would not harbor, he said, one who had vengefully taken the life of his beloved nephew; the law, indeed, could not reach the criminal, but a father's malediction could! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4.

The point has cut clean through the words ‘a curse’—Mfulini’s assegai has made short work of that malediction. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War

A deeply uttered malediction was O'Shea's answer to the pleasant prediction. One Of Them

It often happens, that under such circumstances, the master, laying aside his usual gravity, rushes upon his scholar, and overwhelms him at once with blows and terrible maledictions. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

The enemy's ship was alive with moving, buzzing beings, some of whom cried out this or that order, and others called down maledictions on the head of the man who had needlessly aroused them. Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington

This fanned M. Dupont's smouldering ill-humor into a flame, and I gathered from his confused maledictions that he had suffered in property from the exertions of that force. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4.

Yet no one dares to speak of it; or if they do, they bate their breath, and preface their remarks with maledictions. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists

Something that sounded like a malediction was muttered by Paten as he arose and walked the room with passionate strides. One Of Them

Every year, when we claimed the rent, we were received with insults and maledictions. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

The blazing sun dragged slowly past the zenith, indifferent to Mahoney's maledictions. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life

In final fury he flung at her farewells that were maledictions, only to be recaptured, beaten even, subjugated anew. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern

I came up quickly behind them, and could overhear their complaints at having mistaken the road, and their maledictions, uttered in no gentle spirit, on the stupid mountaineers who could not understand French. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune

Little towns, always hotbeds of gossip, are remarkable for that isolating malignancy, which is like the tremendous malediction of the Church seen through the wrong end of the telescope. Toilers of the Sea

There was Kelly, the "champeen thrumpether," who could blow "Taps" that would bring tears to your eyes one day and maledictions on his head the next. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade

The French trapper rumbles out some maledictions on le sacr� carcajou. The Story of the Trapper

There is compassion for the blood-stained church, and pity for the polluted stones; but for the dead only a malediction. Priests, Women, and Families

As he places his foot on the steps, a malediction sounds from within the sanctuary. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906

Your mother besought me not to jest, because the fairies, if angered, would transform their blessings into maledictions. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace

The people were proud of him, and with shrill cries called down maledictions on the Feringhis. Barclay of the Guides

I had the bag and those clumsy gringoes were chasing one another in the dark, when the professor, maledictions upon him, came in my way. Frontier Boys in the South Seas

With many a malediction of George—with curses deep and cutting on every one whose misconduct had served to place him in his present position—he took his way towards the high-road. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life

The loud rivalry of their straining engines awoke many a wayside dweller, and brought down maledictions on the heads of all midnight joy-riders. The Bartlett Mystery

The first thing he had recourse to—his usual refuge in all times of affliction and perplexity—was a long and energetic malediction. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847

To see my two sons and yet not to be able to save them—malediction! The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres

Having uttered this terrible malediction, it shook its winding-sheet, and then waved the candle round its head. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11

"Swindlers," "Rakes," and "Vagabonds" were about the mildest terms of the vocabulary he kept muttering to himself, while a grumbling thunder-growl of malediction followed each. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life

But now the Sicilian Muse returns, all the more lovely for the contrast with the stern malediction that has gone before. 134-151. Minor Poems by Milton

What an uproar was now in the mansion! what outcry, screaming, and maledictions without object—questions without answer! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847

A flaky-skinned beggar slouched from behind the corner of the building and held out an imploring hand, which the driver's contemptuous denial turned into a clenched fist afloat in a sea of Spanish maledictions. Bring Me His Ears

From your rueful countenance a stranger might infer that Pandora’s box had just been opened at ‘Bochim,’ and that the very air was thick with miasma and maledictions.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part

There, public malediction was visited on anyone that omitted to guide a stranger on his way. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal

Is he not twice and thrice wicked, and to be branded with malediction deeper still? Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II)

Here again Timar had done his rivals a bad turn, which would bring their maledictions down on him. Timar's Two Worlds

Then, with many maledictions, Pedro rallied his friends and set out along the wagon road, following a trail easily seen notwithstanding the rain which had beaten at the telltale tracks all night. Bring Me His Ears

But all at once a female voice began to let off a torrent of abuse, maledictions, curses, vituperations! Weird Tales. Vol. I

Since then, from no church has there come an adequate explanation of the malediction under which man is supposed to labour because of the natural propensities of beings that never were. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal

Hugo uttered a low but emphatic malediction on her "meddlesome folly." Under False Pretences A Novel

How great would have been their desolation—what maledictions would they have poured on those who reduced him to such a state! The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813

There was, however, more cause for malediction, and further provocations to wrath, in store for the rector. Lady Anna

This appeal turned all eyes toward him, and then associating him with an evil, the cause of which they were unable to comprehend, the maledictions of the monks broke forth. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

Finally, having exhausted his extensive vocabulary of maledictions on that mob of obdurate sinners, this patriotic officer took himself away, and the boys turned in for the night. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House

Gallegher gave a hysterical little gasp of relief as he trotted away from the two policemen, and poured bitter maledictions on their heads for two meddling fools as he went. The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys

Overwhelmed and awed by the demoniacal maledictions of the wretched creature whom I had hitherto so intensely despised, I knew not what to think, or how to act. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851.

But in the teeth of that dubious malediction he persevered, and his next attack was upon aunt Julia. Lady Anna

Instead of gladsome applause for an invention that does honor to man and is fraught with benefit for the race, he only has a malediction on his lips. Woman under socialism

“Siccome la Regina Giovanna,” is a form of peasant execration around Naples that has some historical affinity with the time-honoured Irish malediction of the “Curse o’ Cromwell.” The Naples Riviera

They ever boast of being led by the Spirit, yet their vaunting is mere malediction, not only of Christ in person, but of his Word and his sacraments. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent

The gesture was accompanied by maledictions upon crooks and robbers, and the force of his expressions made necessary the use of the handkerchief again. Claim Number One

This being driven, hunted, shooed out into the open with blows and curses and scornful maledictions, is a singularly cowing sensation, at once humiliating and embittering. Finn The Wolfhound

Muttering something which may have been a Mayoruna malediction, the savage moved aside a step or two, drew another arrow, and set it to the cord with more care than before. The Pathless Trail

Then those who had hitherto opposed the lynching of the murderer changed their minds and directed new malediction against him, and those who had handled the rope took keener comfort and greater honor to themselves. Money Magic A Novel

Among the sprawled forms of the Rogans they crept, with great dull eyes rolling helplessly to observe their progress, and with feeble squeals of rage and fear and malediction following their slow path. The Red Hell of Jupiter

Springing to my feet, I sped up and down my cell like a caged animal, and after many maledictions on "the accursed creed," I succeeded in stilling the tumult of my emotions. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

A glance at the clock showed him that it was four in the morning and he muttered a malediction on the one who had called him. Astounding Stories, February, 1931

Mellen's agonized cry was answered by a hoarse murmur from his companion, which sounded like a malediction. A Noble Woman

How long, O Catiline, would–– A paralyzing suspicion flashed into the maelstrom of my vituperative maledictions. Our Next-Door Neighbors

He was often heard to utter a malediction against the law of heredity. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879

The fallen woman had laboriously regained her feet and turned a torrent of vulgar maledictions upon the jeering crowd. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life

While their savage disposition was gladdened with the sight, they heaped maledictions on the dead. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.

Croustillac, alone between the two groups, was a butt for the invectives, the attacks, and the maledictions of both parties. A Romance of the West Indies

It is the malediction of mortals to want what they lack until they get it, when they want it no more. The Paliser case

George, who hated Mr. Bottomley, grunted out his malediction, even though no one could hear him. Is He Popenjoy?

Over-head The startled fiend his pinion spread, And croaking maledictions, fled. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848

Oh my father," she exclaimed with heart-rending emotion, "I am a criminal daughter—a wretch unworthy of the name I bear—yes, I amply merit your wrath and malediction. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.

He regarded the face in the miniature with fear and hatred, and dashing it into the drawer, called down maledictions on her. The Strollers

They invariably place the hypothetic Cabinet under the direct orders of Archbishop Walsh, and continue to make fun of that great hierarch's famous malediction on Freemasonry. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule

Johnny, unable to climb, sat below, growling maledictions in bear language, daring him to come down and fight it out. A Mountain Boyhood

He arrived at a terrific malediction which he had found effective many years before in dealing with Italian navvies. The Island Mystery

I know not my father, nor was I ever anxious to learn a name to me so full of misery, and which could claim no other token from his child than a malediction. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.

The girl turned suddenly, one of those harsh oaths upon her lips which even more than any action betray the fallen woman, and hissed out a malediction on his brutal carelessness. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862

Be it understood that these religionists live in Ireland and date their malediction from Coleraine. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule

There was a general laugh in the office, heavily spiced with maledictions. Dr. Sevier

For will it be said that these maledictions and inflictions were the effect of the inspiration of the good Spirit, or the work of good angels? The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.

Her pride was mortified; in high dudgeon, she crossed herself with fervour; and then departed, muttering something between a prayer and a malediction. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.

At this the old virago howled out some insane maledictions, and urged the crowd on. Among the Brigands

The late Lord Leitrim was exalted to the skies, but his murdered father was visited with blackest malediction. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule

And being trained in the doctrine of the Lord and the Apostles, I am anxious to meet your maledictions with blessing, your insults with honour, your hatred with charity. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I

We have in history instances of these devotings and maledictions, and evocations of the tutelary gods of cities by magic art. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.

But he heeded not either her tears or her words, and only cast her from him with a rough malediction, declaring her to be an encumbrance. The White Lie

Deep and dire are the maledictions heaved at the unhappy Shark, and in which his companions, Rimu and Toto, Wolf and Katipo, have unjustly to share. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand

It was like the maledictions in Deuteronomy, only brought up to date by dynamite explosions and automobile accidents. Ghetto Comedies

When Zeno died in 491, he was attended to the grave by the contempt of his own wife and the malediction of the people, whom his cruelty, debauchery, and perfidy had alienated. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I

He answered that he was forced to it by conjuration and maledictions. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.

If Stanton had not been undermined, not only the people would have been saved from terrible disasters, but McClellan, Lincoln, Seward, and Blair would have been saved from reproaches and from malediction. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862

Then the Doctor, in spite of his Christianity, pronounced a malediction against the Blake womankind. Lover or Friend

It was with Godspeed, not the maledictions of one's neighbors, that she had hoped to leave the place which had sheltered her so long. When Dreams Come True

A man of unusual intelligence, and an excellent heart, his maledictions fell entirely upon the head of him who had wronged her; for his child he had only tears and consolation. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches

There was here, so to speak, a school of soldiers side by side with a school of priests, in which every act of the English government provoked slander, malediction, and schemes of opposition. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)

Reproof and punishment greatly differ from cursing and malediction. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

Jankiel sent a malediction after the retreating figure; the two others were silent. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story

One more glance with the fierce white eyes, a deep grating malediction, and the ruffian braced himself for his deadly job. The Land of Thor

Then to our further astonishment his rich Irish voice could be heard upraised in picturesque malediction. Life in a Tank

It is a compound of tyrannies and perjuries,—of lies and blood-red murders,—of crimes abominable and unnatural,—of priestly maledictions, socialist ravings, and atheistic blasphemies. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge

It rose up against us, as though pronouncing a malediction upon the intruders, upon the profaners of those mysteries that, in the inmost recesses of the jungle, great Mother Nature celebrates during the night. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)

She leaned out into it and uttered to the night a hoarse, confused voice, words inchoate, incomprehensible, yet with a terrible accent of rage, of malediction. The Invader A Novel

On our arrival at the next pilot station the captain put the pilot ashore, with a parting malediction in the Swedish vernacular. The Land of Thor

From end to end, from end to end he goes, Muttering his maledictions—and a name Of one who drowned, it seems—though no one knows, For there's a madness in his words, they claim. Ships in Harbour

His mouth was still filled with curses, and maledictions of rage and hatred were poured out upon the runaways. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives

Tiburcio! do not leave us so; do you wish to bring upon our house the malediction of heaven?” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora

All the way home, the length of Barham Street, where the people stared and laughed, young Fraser repeated all the maledictions he could remember or invent. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905

The old feud received, if possible, additional acrimony, and there were no bounds to the maledictions heaped upon the young and imperturbable legislator by his virulent antagonist. Macaria

Of course, after hurling a choice malediction after my horse, I was quickly on my feet and doubling after the rest of the "Boys of the Bulldog Breed." A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition

Night and day she was possessed by the same fever of malediction, and even in her dreams her attenuated limbs were convulsed with wrath. Germinie Lacerteux

Malediction, malediction upon me, who held the avenging hands of my sons! An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere

He is clothed with priestly garments, that these, piece by piece, and each with an appropriate insult malediction, may be stripped from him again. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

He left Rome to wander in strange lands, the most frightful anathemas and maledictions ringing in his ears. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

At this sight, as there was no longer any doubt of their intention, the coalheaver uttered a malediction, and the man in the cloak a cry of rage. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental

The practice of receiving interest had been confined, until this fifteenth century, with contempt and malediction, to the profession, so styled, of usurers, or to the Jews. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving

Then he launched a new series of maledictions against lack of respect and growing irreligion. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere

But letters and appeals to the judgment of the world, and awful maledictions, were not their only resources. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

Again do I hear the maledictions of the frenzied populace; again do I behold their menacing faces, their threatening gestures. Fibble, D.D.

The public, beholding Juancho's inconceivable awkwardness, commenced one of those tremendous uproars in which the Spanish people excel: a perfect hurricane of insulting epithets, of vociferations and maledictions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847

They heap maledictions on the Governor, without any of the restraints of courtesy or propriety. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply

In the anguish of his despair, he cursed the day of his birth, and uttered dreadful maledictions against his children. Richard I Makers of History

Luther teaches that 'Christ did truly and effectually feel for all mankind the wrath of God, malediction, and death.' Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries

Disappointment and possibly maledictions would probably be the result of any such attempt, except in the case of Xavier de Maistre and Constant. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800

The mob roared like wild beasts, poured out maledictions on their unkempt heads, hurled stones and sticks at them amid furious din and clamour. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45

The gentleman who performed for us the part of Chorus, gave us to wit, that they were lamenting the fall of Algiers, and imprecating maledictions on the head of the French. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

And before the might of her purpose, and the force of her maledictions, he stood as in a trance. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

He sobbed, tore his hair, and called down all the maledictions of Heaven on his head. Laboulaye's Fairy Book

Not content with maledictions, Luther then turns himself to prophecy; he announces that his doctrine, which proceeds from heaven, will gain, one by one, all the kingdoms of the world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09

Again he hears a malediction, now uttered by his former host: "Get thee out of my island quickly, most guilty of men, hated by the Gods!" Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

And while his country bled and fought, the Marquis blushed with shame in London, Berlin and Vienna when his French ears heard the maledictions of the conquered. The Son of Monte-Cristo

Phœbe had a certain lurking satisfaction in observing, when his malediction had run itself down, ‘He never consulted Robert.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster

He cursed his unnatural enemy with a bitter and terrible malediction. William the Conqueror Makers of History

This act drew upon them maledictions from all classes. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan

The populace yelled and threatened the monks with a thousand maledictions if they opened it. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Inside the store the postmaster and proprietor tilted his chair against the counter and dozed also, though fitfully, and with occasional restless changes of position and smothered maledictions against the heat. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim

Whereupon Lieutenant Van Haubitz passed half an hour in heaping maledictions on the head of his disobliging commander, and then sat down and wrote an application for an exchange to the authorities in Holland. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847

At intervals he had paused to answer and to listen—and the now swiftly dispersing fog enabled him also to see—and finally to utter a little malediction under his breath. Dorothy's Travels

It was not clear to Lyon whether this malediction had for its object the original or the painter of the portrait. A London Life and Other Tales

This set that peppery individual wild and he tore around considerably, tearing his hair, stamping his feet and sputtering with maledictions at the insult that had been offered him. Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power

They listened with the calm of people for whom anathema, reprobation, malediction, and execration were their daily bread. The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920

From him he heard a voluble flow of words dealing with regrets, expressions of disgust, one lament after the other, a jeremiade on hard times, maledictions hurled at dilatory creditors, infinite consolation—and empty advice. The Goose Man

She uttered continual maledictions against Edward for having murdered her boy, and nothing could soothe or quiet her. Margaret of Anjou Makers of History

The plate, bountifully helped, returned from hand to hand down the table, laden with prunes and maledictions. The Varmint

Uttering this malediction, he scrambled out of the grave, and suddenly stood before the astonished maiden, who shuddered as she beheld the unshapely outline of a form which she instantly recognised. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

Mouthing deep maledictions, he saw the Indian dance a few steps on the trestle, shouting derision at his fleeing followers. The Return of Blue Pete

You feel your cheek burning with shame, and, in your desire for revenge, you heap maledictions upon your unfortunate father's head. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus

It isn’t often that the name of Arroyo is cursed, without that of Bocardo being mixed up in the malediction.” The Tiger Hunter

And then above the grave he says such a malediction upon any who may disturb it as would alone frighten to the death any person coming there and braving such a curse. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive

The ghostly finger of old Henry Ford, pointing down through the generations, had lost its power to brand with its malediction the life of these, his descendants. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

I see he does not like that, he frowns, he mutters maledictions. Rita

And continually the hoarse voice of the Polly's master roared forth malediction, twisted into new forms of profanity. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916

Nay, more! for the freedwoman, unconscious of her own impiety, had triumphed in the end; her death—majestic and sublime in its suddenness—had set the seal upon her malediction. "Unto Caesar"

The old hag was still shaking her cane and yelling her maledictions. A Prisoner of Morro In the Hands of the Enemy

With horrid malediction of their religion and parentage he rode on at a foot's pace. The Valley of the Kings

I suffer in silence till their back is turned, and my maledictions accompany them along the road. Rita

There was no mistaking the hoarse voice of Captain Candage when it was raised in reply; his tones had become familiar after that evening of malediction. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916

Then mayhap the blood of her kinsman would stain her hands for ever; then, too, no doubt would come horror, remorse and the malediction of the gods. "Unto Caesar"

One cyclist who took corners on trust she cursed by the Ineffable Name, but instantly withdrew the malediction for luck, and addressed his dwindling back with an eye of misery and a voice of benediction. Mary, Mary

But ever since he had placed the treasure in its hiding-place, the gospel malediction, "lose his own soul," had been thundering in his ears. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World

So the witch, shrieking grisly maledictions, rode away to vent her spite on colicky babies and gouty old men. The House of Toys

The profusion of his maledictions could hardly be rivalled in the Fish Market or Bear Garden. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges

Dea's favours, her loyalty, were turning to bitter malediction for the recipients. "Unto Caesar"

But that is more than I hope for my crypto-criminals, and therefore I take this my only way of giving them celebration and malediction in one breath. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

I will find this cup of compunction as full as I have formerly filled the cups of worldly confections, that so I may escape the cup of malediction and irrecoverable destruction that depends upon that. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel

Inwardly I was calling down maledictions on her head, for I saw the Professor's tall form receding through the door. David Malcolm

Nerved to receive a scourge of maledictions or a blow the culprit waited. Walter and the Wireless

Revenge for the desecrated ashes of my fathers—malediction upon the new races! their whirlpool is around me, but it shall not draw me into the giddying and increasing circles of its abyss! The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Still not sufficient to satisfy him, nor allay the wild exasperation burning within his breast, which seeks to vent itself in a string of maledictions poured plenteously from his lips. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco

Much comfort is not in much sleep, when the most fearful and most irrevocable malediction is presented by thee in a perpetual sleep. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel

I called down maledictions on the robust Malcolms and McLaurins who had carried me out of her world and abandoned me to the garrulous Mrs. Bannister and the taciturn Rufus Blight. David Malcolm

Indeed, he was soon fully substantiated by others who heard her when she had run home heaping her maledictions on the mill. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills

The malediction trembled on her tongue; she raised her staff to smite him, but she checked the action. Rookwood

In the doorway they met the Press Agent, looking anything but cheerful and muttering maledictions on the heads of all city editors. Side Show Studies

A forceful malediction came from the tug captain, and a whirling monkey-wrench from the hand of the engineer, who had listened from the engine-room door. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

But what was there in their presence to draw down the maledictions of the padre, which he continued to lavish upon them most unsparingly? The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire

Therefore, even in the hour of my deepest, pas- sionate malediction I try to remember it is also well between us. Look! We Have Come Through!

She disowned me as her son; disclaimed all maternal regard, and heaped upon my head a frightful malediction, at the recollection of which I still tremble. Rookwood

The captain seated himself in the standing-room, and began to heap maledictions upon the boat. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder

Then the smoke of battle thinned, and two men with sore heads and bleeding faces retreated painfully and hurriedly to the cabin, followed by snarling maledictions and threats. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

And touching his horse with the spurs, he went on, pursued by the maledictions of Sir Asinus. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

They hurried away, but not before the chief had risen on one elbow and shaken his clenched fist at them, besides displaying a terrible double row of teeth, through which he hissed an unintelligible malediction. Sunk at Sea

Would any of you wish to bring down the bereaved widow’s maledictions on your heads? The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean

It was a fierce, bitter malediction, full of intense, burning hatred, seeming to embrace God, man and the entire universe in its scope. Monte-Cristo's Daughter

The merciless creatures set their dogs upon the pretended mendicant, and thus brought down upon themselves and their posterity this fearful malediction. Brittany & Its Byways

The spike-spurred driving-wheels whirred and slashed the ice and snow until the "bite" started the train, and then it moved away up the long road, leaving Ward screaming maledictions after it. The Rainy Day Railroad War

Richard Saltire always looked frankly bored, but sometimes he and Mrs. van Cannan exchanged a smile of sympathy at having to listen to the maledictions of Job while the roast was getting cold. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa

If you hang me you will bring the malediction of Heaven, and the widow’s curse will rest upon you. The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean

He did not notice them, did not seem to pay even the slightest attention to his surroundings, but kept his eyes upturned towards heaven, the murmur of bitter malediction constantly issuing from his lips. Monte-Cristo's Daughter

"Doubly accursed," says the Circassian proverb, "is the man that draweth down upon himself the malediction of the aged." Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia

"Our silence," says one who was present, "in the midst of these insults, did not satisfy them: we had to suffer menaces, maledictions; stoning through the streets, and the violation of our houses." Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

She had a fierce knife at her waist and would have used it had she the chance, but we removed it from her reach, and she poured a fresher, fuller stream of malediction. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

To get the most out of Charles Schwab throw around him expectation and malediction and then let him take his choice. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak

I recovered myself on the instant, however, and with a final malediction, darted toward the bath room. The Paternoster Ruby

We are set at this liberty that the curse and malediction of the law fall not upon us. The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics

And they had not together proceeded far, filling the air with their cries and uttering maledictions of every form against the unhappy Christians, before a new horror was proclaimed by that blood-thirsty crew. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century

She let fly all the maledictions, English and Spanish, of which she had knowledge. The Californians

This malediction has awaited me, Who had so many.... The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866

Leary, refusing to relinquish the oars, swore between strokes, the object of his maledictions being the invisible Carey, whom he consigned to the bottom of the lake in phrases that struck Archie as singularly felicitous. Blacksheep! Blacksheep!

To a fresh shaking the drunken man at last gave some tokens of returning consciousness, by making several winding blows at his benefactors, and uttering some half-intelligent maledictions. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes

Last of all came the name, once given proudly by the young father to his first-born, and now gasped out with maledictions from the same father's dying lips—"Frederick." Agatha's Husband A Novel

As he uttered the malediction the disappointed man heaved a last stone, angrily and without an attempt at an aim. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue

Groans and maledictions were the order of the night. The Big Otter

As Mike gave vent to this malediction, the boat ran swiftly past a low, rocky point, over which the surf was breaking wildly. The Young Fur Traders

Here Mr Sparks muttered something very like a malediction on ladies in general, and on ladies who “must” have dresses in particular. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade

However, my nurse never, for a long time after, spoke of the reverend gentleman without applying the corner of her apron to her eyes, or her husband without a hearty malediction. Rattlin the Reefer

Horses reared, hay-carts swayed, peasants shrieked maledictions or shook fists; but always, crawling at snail's pace, we managed to scrape past without accident. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon

The two sculls were found, and, bestowing many maledictions on his companions for not being able to drink with impunity, he made me take one of them, and attempt to pull towards the shore. Peter the Whaler

She walked away, shaking her feathers, with an angry malediction of noise. Vesty of the Basins

He wound up his remark, which was made in a bantering tone, with another malediction, which was earnest enough—savagely so. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade

It was the "accursed politicians" who had led them into such a fratricidal strife who were the objects of our maledictions. Forty-Six Years in the Army

The oath was then administered, and it made me call down the most dreadful maledictions on my head, and on the heads of all those dear to me, should I ever break it. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea

"A malediction on the creature's shrewdness!" said Count Victor inwardly, while outwardly he simply smiled back. Doom Castle

Curses upon them and maledictions upon her came from my lips in horrid succession, until I, the once mild and patient Hajji, had become more furious than a Mazanderan lion. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

Doctor Bataille affirms it; indeed this quality of malediction has been specially dispensed to the nation of heretics by God himself; so says Doctor Bataille. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer

When he returned, François assisted him in his maledictions; for François was tired of the bear-meat, and was vexed at being thus a second time cheated out of something fresh for supper. The Boy Hunters

When Buonamico heard this, he sent to tell him to do his worst, wherefore the bishop menaced him with a malediction. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)

A malediction on the whole tribe of mountaineers! Doom Castle

In the South, Douglas was covered with maledictions. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

The weaker man capitulated, with a malediction, to the stronger. Roger Ingleton, Minor

It was to no purpose that Danton urgently rebuked the senseless animosity with which the Right poured incessant malediction on the Left, and the wild shrieking hate with which the Left retaliated on the Right. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre

The malediction of this twenty-five-year-old Colonel appeared rather more comic than terrible. The Man With The Broken Ear

There was nothing but a chorus of maledictions against him around the table. The Nabob, Volume 1

"What the hyphenated maledictions are you doing there?" Torchy, Private Sec.

His maledictions included everything except his own drunken clumsiness. The Secret of the Storm Country

While divine service was being held in the new minster and hymns of praise and thanksgiving were offered at God's altar, the devil flew with horrible maledictions over the country. Legends of the Rhine

With a muttered malediction on British manufacturers, Colwyn struck several more in rapid succession before he succeeded in lighting the candle at his bedside. The Shrieking Pit

"What—what—what?" sputtered the Highland governor, springing first on one side of Grant and then on the other, all the while rumbling out maledictions on Lord Selkirk, and Governor McDonell and Fort Douglas. Lords of the North

When he reached the garden all was still, and he loosed his malediction upon the night air. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories

He was bleeding and dazed, but not so dazed but what he could heap maledictions upon the head of his superior officer. Frontier Boys in Frisco

Its profuse maledictions, once confined to the evildoers of Mecca, now include all unbelievers everywhere. The Necessity of Atheism

And with a parting malediction, which showed wonderful ingenuity in blasphemy, he growled out an order to back water; when the boat was turned, and headed for the ship. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'

They scolded, railed and imprecated, Abased, defied and execrated; With malediction, ban and curse They simply went from bad to worse; Carramba! The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

Taking advantage of the credulity of the people, they cursed those whom they disliked, and many were the endeavours to counteract their maledictions. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

He knew that his turkeys were going, and, muttering a parting malediction at Frank, he set off at a run to protect his poultry-yard. The Drummer Boy

He is not placed there as a target for the maledictions of disappointed spectators. Base-Ball How to Become a Player

Then the maiden came to him and said, “The malediction of Heaven attend thee for thy work, since thou hast left that monster alive, who lays waste all the possessions p. 103of the Empress.” The Mabinogion Vol. 1

But death upon the cross was a death of malediction, as we read Deut. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Even kings have not escaped the Church's maledictions. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales

The pain of their sting was such that he had to set his teeth to keep back a growl of malediction upon their evil fangs. Jack Haydon's Quest

This act had brought down upon him criticisms, quite like maledictions, from the Anti-Slavery Party. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1

But she had forsaken him, had separated him from her as one who was accursed, and whose very name was a malediction. Cobwebs and Cables

"Yes," and the man walked on with a muttered malediction. With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War

But we of today shall be wise in refusing to allow our life to be unnecessarily darkened, or hedged round with imaginary maledictions and foes. The Buried Temple

Movement was almost an impossibility; a leg drawn tight in a cramp disturbed the whole fabric of slumbering humanity; the man who turned round came in for a shower of maledictions. The Red Horizon

If possible, she would rather use words of love than of malediction. Cape Cod Folks

He has doubtless pronounced a secret malediction against the earth. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity

For if Austro-German society had admitted the Jews to civil rights, it had made them feel as never before the old hatred and malediction and exclusion. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

He walked about the room, muttering maledictions between his teeth and balancing, as best he was able at such a moment, his pride against his profit. Can You Forgive Her?

There, his limbs unbound, his tongue unloosed, Murray indulged in a blast of malediction on the road, the company, the government, his comrades, even his benefactors, and then thoughtfully demanded drink. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila

The dozing night clerk gave him both, with a sleepy malediction thrown in; and he went back to the engine-room and scribbled his word-picture by the light of the swinging incandescent. The Price

The malediction is no secret to any who will read the twenty ninth chapter of Deuteronomy; nor is the avenging of the quarrel of God's covenant confined to the sins of past generations. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity

The feelings of a father repressed his maledictions, while he gazed on him with stern silence as he would on a portentous meteor. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel

But he hardly arrested the torrent of his maledictions as he did so. Can You Forgive Her?

It took much negotiation to induce the prince to reduce the sum to sixty thousand ducats, which the merchant raised and paid,—with a malediction on all words of compliment. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII

No!—Can your malediction disturb the slumbers of a quiet conscience? Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

Its seeds were sown by the Romans with maledictions and curses through the belief that the more it was abused the better it would prosper. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

The war brought down upon them the maledictions of vast herds of right-thinking men. The Antichrist

Then oaths from another voice came floating up and they had no difficulty in recognizing the choice maledictions of the captain as he rushed on deck to ascertain the cause of the disturbance. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World

They shouted maledictions on their way against the queen and the Prince of the Peace. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII

The stirring glacial fields of summer, monsters of the ages, boomed out their maledictions upon ears deaf to all their pristine wrath. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon

When the power of speech returned, he broke into fierce and terrible maledictions. Steve Yeager

Ecclesiastically and doctrinally they stood in the open, while Romanist and Protestant, Anglican and Puritan, Calvinist and Arminian waged bitter war, filling the air with angry maledictions. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry

He returned Gabriel's maledictions with bows and smiles. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World

He wired to his guests not to come; he discharged his servants; and as he crossed the border next day, he bade farewell to the stern and wild Caledonia in a most impressive malediction. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World

I have heard the boom of cannon, the rattle of musketry, the hiss of rockets, the wail of the wounded, the shriek of the dying, the malediction over the dead. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76

And so the crowd now began to hurl maledictions on the innocent head of the receiver. The Substitute Prisoner

Thither the Patriarch followed him with his maledictions. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.

Then, having lifted Alice out, he returned it with a bow, and, heedless of the maledictions of the old man, proceeded to get the stone and the pot up again. Cross Purposes and The Shadows

She heaped reproaches, taunts, and maledictions on the head of the signor, who bore them with more equanimity than would be supposed, but who determined not to have another such tempest. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864

But no such malediction as that ever fell from the lips of the typical American slave; oppressed, like the Man of Sorrows, he opened not his mouth. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

So I am not afraid of that threat; and as to maledictions, you are much too kind and good-natured to utter such stuff; and, besides, curses are just as harmless and useless as blessings. Dr. Dumany's Wife

On the day following, thirteen were present, most of whom had heard the maledictions of the Armenian Patriarch pronounced, the day before, on all who should visit the missionaries. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.

Under the malediction of Church and State, Luther was lost sight of for some months. Lectures on Modern history

The rickety little man had been for Mr. Hawke, and this sudden turning of his coat provoked a tempest of cheers from the Frosts and maledictions from the Hawkes. The President A novel

We could not be happy with their malediction pending over us.' Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches

It was poverty and disgrace, the detection of my crimes, the looks and voice of malediction and upbraiding, from which my cowardice shrunk. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

And Patrick cursed the people of that country; but Bishop Maine of the Hy-Ailella, who prayed Patrick regarding forgiveness for his kinsmen, and Patrick modified the malediction. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings

When the malediction falls on creatures, without any reference to their relationship to God, we have cursing in its proper form with a special malice of its own. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

But the prophet's voice at last got so shrieky and monotonous, that instead of warning and inspiring a second generation, these terrific maledictions began to pall upon a practical world. Studies in Early Victorian Literature

With a malediction at his heart, but with a smile on his lips, Captain Ducie made reply. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891

With a violent malediction he bent forward listening. The Lighted Match

And the saint, wounded in his heart, cast the weapon of his malediction on this child of hell, who, pierced thereby, even at the moment breathed out his soul into the infernal regions. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings

These latter can do nothing but curse and heap maledictions upon all who do not share their lot. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

If ever Lear's or Timon's power of malediction could be justifiably called into exercise, it would be against such a tribunal and such witnesses as they had generally to encounter. Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Shall I not bestow a malediction on every other of nature's offspring, which dares live and enjoy, while I live and suffer? The Last Man

Occasionally he raised his head as some young dog scurried near, yelping maledictions upon a perfect tangle of fox tracks, none of which went anywhere. Ways of Wood Folk

Wherefore the saint punished him with the sentence of his malediction, and foretold that not one of his seed should reign after him, but that his kingdom should be transferred to Kerellus, his younger brother. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings

The malediction of Heaven, the almighty wrath of God follows him or her who despises a parent. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

At the most he would fling out some cryptic hint, bestow some malediction upon life in general. The Hidden Places

Colonel Fortescue brought upon himself many maledictions from the junior officers by the way in which he regulated these balls. Betty at Fort Blizzard

The ghastly inhuman sneer on his thin widening lips assaulted me like a giant's malediction, and the light in the room seemed to become more brilliant till it was almost blinding. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural

Then the saint, more grievously taking the hindrance of his purpose than his own expulsion, began to cast on them and on their seed the dart of his malediction. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings

He employed blasphemies, maledictions; he smote my poor husband on the nose and in the stomach—all to no purpose, for he is gone. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories

He, too, was sitting, but upright, and his arm was raised with a threatening gesture as if in his desolating anger he were about to pronounce a malediction upon the vanishing twilighted town. Visionaries

Shouts, groans, maledictions of all sorts and degrees followed. The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar.

The reader taking up this volume will, for the first time in the work of one who hitherto had cursed no man, find words of hatred and malediction. The Wrack of the Storm

Curses, horrible, blighting curses, combinations of malediction which had never even in thought entered his mind before, rolled from his lips. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman

And Devereux first grew so pale as almost to frighten Toole, and then broke into a savage fury—and did not spare hard words, oaths, or maledictions. The House by the Church-Yard

With a muttered malediction upon this ruthless destroyer of his rest, the detective donned his clothing, and, feeling as tired and unrefreshed as though he had not slept at all, descended to the dining-room. The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives

An unspoken malediction rose out of his soul. The Courage of Marge O'Doone

Before closing this book, I wish to weigh for the last time in my conscience the words of hatred and malediction which it has made me speak in spite of myself. The Wrack of the Storm

His father received him with a hurricane of reproaches, threats, maledictions. Infelice

It was in the midst of one of these impotent fits of malediction that the wainscot door was opened and closed softly, and light footsteps tiptoed to my bedside. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady

The Juez is there, and I call the malediction of the priests on my head if you, too, are not doomed. Romance

Inwardly he muttered maledictions on the sentry of the watch, little knowing that the burglars had entered the house while he was himself on guard. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life

单词	malediction
例句	malediction For every man who tried to rub her head, there were three who muttered maledictions under their breath when she went by. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I talked straight through the night, and he silently took my confes sions, maledictions, as though he were some font of blessing at which I might leave a final belated tithe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They dug up the front yard for buried maledictions but found nothing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Is he suffering from an Alzheimeresque affliction, Makes him wallow in malevolent malediction, Spewing folderol and extrajudicial fiction? Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps because Nasreen's presence in the narrative is a disembodied one, we experience her as a kind of evil spirit in the online ether, a curiously spectral source of malediction and misfortune. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z He surely brought some of the maledictions on himself. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z But her writing, once you acclimate to its gargoyle extravagance, has the power of malediction. An Operatic Italian Classic Gets a Fresh Translation 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Badoglio then spent three months entreating his cemetery spirits to undo the malediction, until Mr. Zeffirelli was able to begin filming again. Telling Fashion’s Fortune 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But it isn't only because it's a corrective to whatever version of decorum happens to be current that the novel of disrespect and malediction – there's no agreed term for the genre – matters. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z “They include alienating Trump and incurring his malediction, and discovering that there are just not enough anti-Trump Republicans to win him a swing-state primary,” he said. Teasing 2024 White House bid, Christie urges GOP to move past Trump 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Despite this Sisyphean malediction, with each call for new proposals, the community still tries to push its boulder back to the mountaintop. Is NASA about to Lift the ‘Venus Curse?’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z A salvor who declines to donate their winnings to the poor no longer risks “the curse and malediction of our mother the holy church,” as the law was written in the 1100s. Explorers can take Titanic’s Marconi telegraph, cutting into wreck for first time 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z James, 13, who was eliminated during Wednesday’s third round by the word “malediction,” said the opportunity to meet people and represent his home have been the most rewarding parts of the contest. ‘It’s honestly amazing’: Foiled by ‘knoll,’ a 7-year-old looks ahead to next year’s Spelling Bee 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z As the Meyerbeer scholar Robert Letellier observes, blessing has been “reversed to its dark side of malediction.” The Dark, Prophetic Vision of Giacomo Meyerbeer 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Trump is at his desk, tweeting curses and maledictions at his enemies. Trump the Opera 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Freedom is rather the subject of the author’s malediction. Hostage to a Bull Market 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z That malediction applies with equal force to Ethan Couch, Bill Clinton and his cronies, and any number of Kennedys. The 'affluenza teen' is just another example of privilege with no conscience \| Chris Lehmann 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It was less a speech than a sermon, as Reagan himself understood—a malediction against the evils of income taxes, federal spending, central planning, godless Communism, and government controls on commerce and freedom. The Reagan Reflex 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z So many princes of the church have served it so badly for so many decades that it’s hard to keep track of their maledictions. Gotham: A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace 2014-02-20T02:01:07Z For a long time, the Giants seemed haunted by some malediction from their departure from New York. Sports of The Times: Giants Left Their Hearts at Coogan’s Bluff 2013-01-13T22:20:09Z "I told Dr. Pendarvis that I expected in secret you were heaping maledictions on my defenceless head." A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z As Stapylton lay back in his carriage, he could not help muttering a malediction on the "dear friend" he had just parted with. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z A grunt,—it might be assent, it sounded like malediction. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z But what team ever had to cope with maledictions from the sacred ground it deserted as well as the pastoral site it occupied a full continent away? Sports of The Times: George Vecsey: Maybe the Dodgers Are Cursed 2012-04-07T16:02:19Z And he that was least bitter in his maledictions was most at a discount. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z For some time they pursued their fun unnoticed during the general bustle, and quite undisturbed by the muttered maledictions of their victims. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z She told him the truth, the plain hard truth, heaping maledictions on his head unless he gave up his evil ways, forsook his godless companions, and returned home. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z And again Matthew started off faster than before to find Mrs. Marks, with an inward malediction on Goody Grey. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z Jimmy paused, remembering his audience, just in time to stop the malediction on his tongue. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Then we work in a moral as well, you see, and avoid malediction, which can only mean bad language. Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z Heavy is the virgins’ malediction; When they sigh, their sighs reach God’s high presence; When they curse, the world begins to tremble; When they weep, even God is touch’d with pity.” Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z Yes," pursued Mrs. V——, "nurse still recurs to that 'awful cold night in A——' with an invariable malediction upon the 'bad speret as kept the chair.' The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z With a muttered malediction between his teeth, he rang the bell, and was ushered into the hall. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The sin of Ham degraded him to the condition of a churl; and upon the partition of the world between the three brethren Noah pronounced a malediction against him. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z But the woman's malediction did not bring fear to the doctor who, stopping short in her walk, could scarcely restrain a shout of joy. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z Happily the chatelaine was at home to defend her penates, whilst old Jug shrieked maledictions on the party like a frantic Chorus. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z He might as well take his stand on the brink of the great cataract, and think by the force of prayers or maledictions to stop the flowing of the mighty waters. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Ruy Lopez continued, in a jargon of Spanish and Latin, to fulminate anathemas, maledictions, and threats of excommunication, which, at that time, had such influence upon the mass of the people. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Her uncle and aunt, neither more than half dressed, were accusing her loudly of her crime and heaping maledictions on her head. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z I called down the most frightful maledictions both upon Emma and myself. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z I usually have the means of appeasing, if not of satisfying him, but on the rare occasions when I have had no money the yells and maledictions have been awful. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z I appeal from his profane malediction to the conscience of men who have a rule to judge by. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Thus it was customary for the Siberian hunting races to utter a malediction: May your enemy live like a Tartar, and have the folly to engage in the breeding of cattle. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Towards the conclusion of his malediction Esquemeling's wrath unfortunately gets much the better of his grammar. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z At the least, she felt that here she could, when her time came, die without a malediction on her lips. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Maximilian never liked the French, and his letters abound in maledictions against them. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z George pronounced a malediction against Percy and all his tomatoes. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z He sang peans of victory over the downfall at Yorktown; he exalted the fame of Washington; he called down maledictions on the ship that bore the "worthless Arnold" from American shores. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z That's a comfortable litany to part with—a form of blessing elevated so neatly, at the close, into a malediction. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Riches and high looks are the signs of malediction; humility, poverty, persecution, tears, are the marks of piety and the pledges of divine affection. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Jimmy uttered inarticulate cries of real rage and malediction, vomiting his squibs straight at the champion's eyes with intent to do him grievous bodily injury. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Our guide came to me, uttering maledictions on the stumbling beast. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z His godship was very discriminating in the goodness and freshness of these offerings; for he rejected such as were stale, to be returned next morning, with his maledictions, to the fraudulent donors. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z I came up quickly behind them, and could overhear their complaints at having mistaken the road, and their maledictions, muttered in no gentle spirit, on the stupid mountaineers who could not understand French. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z In the matter of praise and blame Carlile ran the whole gamut, from the highest crescendo of approval to the basso profundi of malediction. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Ejected, excommunicated as it were, loaded with malediction, they are regarded as the outcasts of society, yea almost, of humanity itself. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z He will be blessed and happy who for Christ suffers malediction and insults from false hypocrites, because false malediction becomes a blessed benediction to the righteous. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z I exclaimed exultingly, in reply to the maledictions he showered on us. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z With a vengeance are these curses and maledictions tender! Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z He laughed; recovered health; but then, Morgana, thy great foe, With malediction spoiled thy pains, and wrought a double woe. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Already he was secretly repenting that he had cursed him; and he would have recalled his maledictions if he could have done so without raising the ire of his wife. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z In fact you may well laugh at the maledictions of my parents. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z And she stretched out her broom in an attitude of malediction towards the spot where Pritchard had disappeared. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Amidst the clamour of shrieks, groans, and maledictions, for the havoc our broadside had caused was immense, two white men sprang over the side of the Algerine and began to swim in our direction. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z As boats against a running tide the tug triumphant tows, So let my malediction strong still lead thee by the nose. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Her very maledictions drove him to his new leader Christ. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Moral justice dissents from the habitual sneer, denunciation, and malediction, which have become consecrated forms of piety in speaking of the South. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z Every evening he passed over the roads, visiting his tenants, wrapped up even in springtime in his old cloak, shabby and looking like a beggar, while maledictions and hostile gestures followed after him. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z Again the Furies stop as they see Orpheus approaching, and they sing a malediction upon this mortal so audacious. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z He shook his fist at the upturned canoe and poured forth a perfect torrent of maledictions against it. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z But because muskets are nowadays rarely made of iron, and the large ones never, but of a certain mixture of copper and tin, they confer more maledictions on copper and tin than on iron. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z I was almost sorry to be obliged to withhold my intended malediction. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z The two little ones, frightened, took refuge in the arms of their elder brother, and the father rushed about like a madman, roaring maledictions. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z But he is now awakened to her wickedness, and the scene opens with his maledictions against her and his abject wretchedness over his own disgrace. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z May the evil that one of you wishes another fall back upon his own head; this is the malediction of the prophet. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z While pursuing the details of science, he was in no danger of falling under the poet's malediction on him, "Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes." The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z At the moment of starting my shirts were brought in dripping wet, and Paul bestowed a malediction upon the Greek while he wrung them out and tumbled them into my carpet-bag. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z There was nothing for it now but to let myself patiently be dragged about by them, after I had muttered something, that might as well have been taken for a malediction as a felicitation. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z Liberty brings benedictions in spite of nature, and in defiance of the same nature tyranny brings maledictions. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z And what can the end be but a blasting malediction from the Master? Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z Men would utter savage maledictions when they felt the demon claws suddenly clutch them; girls shrieked and fled to the nearest cottage, into which they would rush, palpitating with terror. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z I could distinguish words of various tongues, English, Irish, German, and many unfamiliar and disjointed cries, imprecations, and maledictions. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z “Get hence,” cried Garnet, unable to control his indignation, “or I will pronounce our Church's most terrible malediction against you.” Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z They were the elders, the senate of the school, and at sight of Briggs they muttered malediction and cautioned silence. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z Vondel, however, did not pause in his path one instant, answering their maledictions with stinging satire, and their abuse with overwhelming invective. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Why are there corns, with their miseries and maledictions? Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z His mouth worked as if he were trying to utter some malediction. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z After supper and a pipe they all turned in, leaving the bank president still sulking and uttering terrible maledictions under his breath. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z A withered root of one of the plants is still exhibited to show the result of the Divine malediction on the vine which occasioned his drunkenness. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z The other occupants of the tent made their appearance on 125 the run, uttering maledictions and cries of grief and wonderment. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z She traces back the solemnity in all its horrid details; she recalls the maledictions with which she was whelmed by those who just before commiserated her. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Luther teaches that "Christ did truly and effectually feel for all mankind, the wrath of God, malediction and death." My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z And here he burst into a flood of maledictions against Mohammed and his religion. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Bolton soon had his ears ringing with messages and maledictions from Detroit and Mackinac, buried still farther in the wilderness, and all looking to Niagara for food and clothing. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Shield me by day from hatred’s threat’ning frowns, Still let thine aromatic curtains spread, When bold presumption mounts to put me down, And hurls his maledictions round my head. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z I uttered the most fearful maledictions, the most horrible curses--they tore me from my mother's lifeless corpse.... Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague 2011-07-27T02:00:26.233Z "Ah, curse me not!" exclaimed Govinda, with a cry of horror; for in the anguish of that moment he felt as if the bitter malediction, thus unconsciously pronounced, was already fulfilling. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z Then as they came on at a steady trot with the poles of the lurching hammock upon their woolly crowns, he stamped on the flooring; and even a sleepy Krooboy started at his vivid maledictions. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z From the time he left his father’s house he had seldom heard the divine name except in some form of malediction, and religion had brought no consolation to his hard life. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z "Only yon priest should not have it all his own way with his maledictions," grumbled the judge. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z And believe that if any evil befall us, it will not have come from that angry woman's malediction. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z And against those who disregard it, a fearful malediction has been uttered by the Great Head of the Church. A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing 2011-07-10T02:00:22.780Z The Brazilian Captain, with a terrible malediction, broke his sword over his knee. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z O woman that cursest in the darkness, come now to the light, that we may hear thy maledictions more plainly, and be refreshed by the beauty of thy countenance. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z The Belgian lancer followed more slowly, uttering maledictions under his breath at every step. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z He earned the anger of the gods and the malediction of the world, then and for all time. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Old Jonas frowned heavily, and further betrayed his irritation by a smothered malediction that included the entire negro race. The Bishop and the Boogerman 2011-06-12T02:00:07.497Z He broke out into a volley of fearful maledictions upon her, himself, and the "beast" who had given him the job, tearing up the telegram into inch pieces and tossing them insolently into Margaret's lap. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z I passed my uncle’s residence, brimful of maledictions against its wicked proprietor. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Eagerly inquiring after Poe, he learned that he was not considered a genteel person in America, Baudelaire withdrew, muttering maledictions. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The man's dark face hardened and more than one of those expressive maledictions broke from him as he thought over it. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z But I have not been in the mood of letter writing, and am prepared for maledictions from all my neglected friends but you. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The skulking, demonized face in the doorway glared with frantic fury at the proud, high countenance on the wall, and a malediction burst from the writhing lips in a hissing whisper. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z As she stood there, in the shelter of the wall, she suddenly heard the governor's voice uttering maledictions and imprecations, and the next moment he came blundering down the stone steps from the parapet. 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God 2011-05-26T02:00:15.987Z To this malediction the other did not answer; stepped down and, again seated in his corner, waited, while the light that had grudgingly entered the narrow aperture grew fainter. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z He sprang to his feet and gave vent to a frightful malediction; then he grew calm through sheer astonishment. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Burton rolled Lem over on his back, and left him to exhaust the maledictions he was heaping upon their heads. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Having prevented the provinces from coming to the rescue of Paris and voted its thanks to the army, it also joined its maledictions to those of the rurals. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z And was this the woman who died uttering curses, and denouncing her persecutors—whose terrible maledictions cling to my own life? Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Often did the women raise their voices in abuse of all books of chivalry, overwhelming their authors with the bitterest maledictions. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z But it was the lashing trees that deceived the eye; it stood immovable, proud, strong, while the evil ones hurled their maledictions and screamed defiance at the very door of God's own heart. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z A siege of coughing choked his maledictions and blood issued from his mouth. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The spurned fans sent out maledictions like some early version of a drone aircraft, to circle the globe until they found the perpetrators who took our team. Sports of The Times: A Cosmic Comeuppance for the Dodgers 2011-04-29T01:39:54Z The neighbors called him a fool; the wife joined in the maledictions—and who could blame her? Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Frau Pastorin said she should be glad to have him stay, and the evening was spent in maledictions on his side, and efforts at pacification upon hers. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z For in the cross fire of mutual maledictions mankind would have perished long ago, not excepting the best and wisest of men as well as the most beautiful and charming women. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z The vicious thorns had torn and stabbed maledictions into his hands. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z With many inward maledictions on my companions I went to bed. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The farmer hailed us, but only to relieve his soul by shouting a malediction on the Dutch. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z I finished with a storm of maledictions so blasphemously horrible, and which I delivered with such wild and awful force, that even the stolid negroes staggered back and rolled their eyes. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Forester, whose impatience had now been carried beyond endurance, paced the room with hurried strides, muttering, between his teeth, every possible malediction on the whole race of innkeepers, barmaids, waiters,—even down to Boots himself. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z And, with a hearty malediction on him, Ladarelle concluded his meditation, and went off to sleep. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Aye, we would deliver up our country to calamities without number, and the people's maledictions will fall upon our memory, which should remain dear to the human race.... The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z “Are you aware of the time, and that Lady Bell’s hall porter is uttering maledictions for our tardiness?” he said, playfully. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z He gave me similar replies, and I rewarded him with similar maledictions. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Drogheda recalls Cromwell to every Irishman, usually with a malediction, for it was here that the massacre occurred which made and still makes the Great Protector anathema in Catholic Ireland. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z He left, too angry for good-nights, with a last scattering of maledictions, leaping down the steps and swinging off across the garden. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z And he began to spit about him, and stamp his feet, threatening the innocent Yakut earth with tightened lips and his shrivelled hands, and muttering Jewish maledictions. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z The guests all wished to retire: the first person, however, to leave the house was Teodoro, expelled by his father and bearing with him the paternal malediction. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z Once she thought She saw, betwixt a tree-top and the moon, A witches form with Elpsie's face, and heard, Or thought she heard, harsh maledictions fall! Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en 2011-02-28T03:00:33.577Z Giulia, after a silent malediction, assumed a friendly smile and greeted the lame critic, who limped into the room upon his crutch. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Despite the malediction of Holy Church, the trim Dutchman swept on nearly a quarter of a mile ahead. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Cursing is also different from prediction of evil, and some passages in the Imprecatory Psalms, though couched in terms of malediction, are prophecies of the future, rather than curses. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z Your tomb shall be covered with maledictions, and amidst them will your last end be remembered. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z As she passed, unheeding that the last friend had forsaken her, he collected his failing energies, spat after her, raised his hands with malediction, and spoke bitter words of execration. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z With many a yawn and sigh subjective, with, I greatly fear me, many a malediction objective, you are "learning the language of another world." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Mr Afton loudly pronounced his maledictions against such “half-way” courses; and there were at first some dark scowls seen among the men. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z Hastily seizing his outstretched arm, and raising his voice in order to drown the maledictions of the monk, he cried aloud, “Depart from me, rash villain, cowled spy!” The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z A terrible oath, uttered in all the vehemence of a malediction, burst from Martin, and seizing Scanlan's wrist, he shook his arm in an agony of passion. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z A muttered malediction from the servant increased her terror, and she uttered a faint cry. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z You mutter maledictions on the infernal noise and caterwauling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z “I hope that she may be worth the trouble she is likely to give us,” muttered Afton, with his usual maledictions. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z He tossed his clenched fists skyward, and followed such a lurid stream of malediction, in consideration of some lily-minded reader, I will not set it down. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The eloquent malediction of the blindness of subjugated peoples drew a unanimous cry of admiration from the Lebrenn family. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z By her side crouched an aged woman who mumbled incessantly, mingling wails, maledictions, and incomprehensible reminiscences of her childhood with fragments of prayers and scraps of biblical texts. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z In that event—malediction! a curse upon her! The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Are there maledictions of sufficient vehemence to penetrate the carapace in which you have wrapped up your understanding? Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z This parting maternal malediction seemed to work no visibly corresponding effect upon Lucy; already she was so marble-white, that fear could no more blanch her, if indeed fear was then at all within her heart. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z No black crow am I by birth, but an unhappy prince, suffering under a malediction, and doomed to pass my years in this miserable condition. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z The maledictions and menaces from above were answered by an enthusiastic clamor from below. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Old Jed shuffled behind, a toothless Nemesis gasping maledictions in stuffy tones. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Thousandacres actually roared like a maddened bull, and he was soon hoarse with uttering his menaces and maledictions. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z THE man Dante Alighieri received unforgivable affronts and insults from the world; and the poet Dante Alighieri bequeathed his immortal curse to it, in the sublime malediction of the Inferno. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war on our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z "He's a ———— who will ruin us all," was the repeated malediction. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z The roar of voices behind—voices entreating, voices of malediction—made her smile. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z He would be sure on his return to bestow hearty maledictions on Deslauriers, for he wished to keep his word, and in the meantime, to oblige Arnoux. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z He cursed the hour of his birth; he hurled his maledictions against God, who had kept him alive all these long years to deprive him of the fruits of his hopes and his patience. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z The proprietor raved, and stormed, and became violent in his language and behavior, threatening terrible punishment on all the runaways, but the appearance of a body of Union cavalry put an end to maledictions. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z But at last the owner of the hovel removed a broken shutter from an upper window, and thrusting out his head, growled a malediction upon the person disturbing him. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z I tell you he was a master of malediction! Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z The malediction is a higher form of oath, and some maledictions are magnificent. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z And uttering maledictions on the head of the attorney and his Jew, Rosi locked the door of her mistress's room and made the best of her way to the kitchen. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z The boy threatened the two with a gesture of his arms, and his lips moved as if they were murmuring a grim malediction. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Her aunt, vanquished and prostrate, raised her hand as if in malediction and muttered hoarsely: "Take her then and begone, in the devil's name!" The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z Their object was to denounce the fugitive slave law; and this was done with hearty good-will, or, we should say, malediction. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z The islands had “gotten to” Private Grant and “locoed” him, and he had breathed sulphurous maledictions against Captain Comyn’s life—but it was not those threats that now disturbed the company commander. The Law of Hemlock Mountain It is in the name of Christ, and not of God as with us, that imprecations, curses, and maledictions are invoked. A Cursory History of Swearing I have always noticed myself that the saints in heaven cry ‘Halleluiah,’ which is Hebrew, but, as I’m a sinful man, I cannot guess how it may be with maledictions.” The Great Mogul The malediction which he invoked upon the builders of the ghastly temple, was unheard; for the spectacle froze his blood and paralyzed his tongue. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico However, in spite of our maledictions, I am really glad for their sake, although I could wish it deferred till we reach land. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 They assembled at Tara, fasted against the king,27 and laid their solemn malediction upon him and the seat of his government. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race But I had to tramp it back on my own feet, with Miser Hobby's malediction on my head as well as on theirs. Deep Moat Grange Prime's too vivid imagination pictured an impending catastrophe, and the canoe thief, no less than Watson Grider, came in for wordless and despairing maledictions. Stranded in Arcady She turned again to gaze at the heavy iron knocker, and just then a piercing animal yelp of pain or fright reached her, followed by a foul malediction in a man's rough voice. The Man from Jericho It was the madness of utter ecstasy—wails of laughter and happy maledictions—and then for that unopened magnum! Witching Hill As for his mother, she had received her with reproaches and maledictions, and a year had elapsed before tolerable relations were established between the two. The Wish A Novel The language of malediction rushed from him, hot and pestiferous, as if it had come from the bottomless pit, reeking with sulphur and brimstone. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 Under their combined weights, DeLancy was flung, hoarse and screaming maledictions, to the couch, where despite objurgations and ravings Granning secured his arms behind his back with a strap and hobbled his legs. Making Money At the name, Anne saw again the lank mountaineer of the loose joints and the uncombed hair, who this morning had parted from her mumbling maledictions against Boone. The Tempering Every body came to buy corn at the farm, and went away pouring maledictions on the Black Brothers. The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers A Legend of Stiria. Ferraringi's answer, as he wriggled free, was a torrent of malediction—and a blinding flash. The Night Operator It may be evidence that all the malediction upon the poet above quoted is not deserved. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Joos’s shrill voice, raised in malediction of all Prussians, soon decided that fact. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Then the mother would heap feminine maledictions on the poor Colonel's head, and so together they would weep and think of revenge. Ayala's Angel The captain and his aids dragged off the condemned man, who mingled threats and maledictions with his entreaties. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. Of this universal malediction, the Cholulan was honored with more than his appropriate share. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 Then, after launching a malediction against the poor hunter, he asked us whether we should dare to eat that black flesh? Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Then he turns out the light and goes his way, and he certainly carries with him my own hearty maledictions, if not those of my fellow prisoners. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York We spoke of the rain, and I foolishly enough, in mentioning all the annoyance it had occasioned me, loaded it with maledictions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 I asked of Bellamy, while Byron, grumbling maledictions, hammered under the truck. Careers of Danger and Daring With many a malediction on all newfangled notions, he plodded on, occasionally coming to the end of an impassable gallery, or now straying into rooms in total darkness. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience The four appertaining to speech are: words sowing discord, insulting maledictions, impudent lies, and hypocritical expressions. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 May that malediction graven by some one of the first followers of the Apostles upon a martyr's tomb never fall upon me! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 So ended his career of infamy in his native land; a land which had once delighted to honor him, but in which his name was never thenceforth to be pronounced without a malediction. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools He would not harbor, he said, one who had vengefully taken the life of his beloved nephew; the law, indeed, could not reach the criminal, but a father's malediction could! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. The point has cut clean through the words ‘a curse’—Mfulini’s assegai has made short work of that malediction. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War A deeply uttered malediction was O'Shea's answer to the pleasant prediction. One Of Them It often happens, that under such circumstances, the master, laying aside his usual gravity, rushes upon his scholar, and overwhelms him at once with blows and terrible maledictions. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The enemy's ship was alive with moving, buzzing beings, some of whom cried out this or that order, and others called down maledictions on the head of the man who had needlessly aroused them. Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington This fanned M. Dupont's smouldering ill-humor into a flame, and I gathered from his confused maledictions that he had suffered in property from the exertions of that force. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Yet no one dares to speak of it; or if they do, they bate their breath, and preface their remarks with maledictions. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists Something that sounded like a malediction was muttered by Paten as he arose and walked the room with passionate strides. One Of Them Every year, when we claimed the rent, we were received with insults and maledictions. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The blazing sun dragged slowly past the zenith, indifferent to Mahoney's maledictions. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life In final fury he flung at her farewells that were maledictions, only to be recaptured, beaten even, subjugated anew. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern I came up quickly behind them, and could overhear their complaints at having mistaken the road, and their maledictions, uttered in no gentle spirit, on the stupid mountaineers who could not understand French. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Little towns, always hotbeds of gossip, are remarkable for that isolating malignancy, which is like the tremendous malediction of the Church seen through the wrong end of the telescope. Toilers of the Sea There was Kelly, the "champeen thrumpether," who could blow "Taps" that would bring tears to your eyes one day and maledictions on his head the next. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade The French trapper rumbles out some maledictions on le sacr� carcajou. The Story of the Trapper There is compassion for the blood-stained church, and pity for the polluted stones; but for the dead only a malediction. Priests, Women, and Families As he places his foot on the steps, a malediction sounds from within the sanctuary. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 Your mother besought me not to jest, because the fairies, if angered, would transform their blessings into maledictions. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace The people were proud of him, and with shrill cries called down maledictions on the Feringhis. Barclay of the Guides I had the bag and those clumsy gringoes were chasing one another in the dark, when the professor, maledictions upon him, came in my way. Frontier Boys in the South Seas With many a malediction of George—with curses deep and cutting on every one whose misconduct had served to place him in his present position—he took his way towards the high-road. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life The loud rivalry of their straining engines awoke many a wayside dweller, and brought down maledictions on the heads of all midnight joy-riders. The Bartlett Mystery The first thing he had recourse to—his usual refuge in all times of affliction and perplexity—was a long and energetic malediction. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 To see my two sons and yet not to be able to save them—malediction! The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Having uttered this terrible malediction, it shook its winding-sheet, and then waved the candle round its head. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 "Swindlers," "Rakes," and "Vagabonds" were about the mildest terms of the vocabulary he kept muttering to himself, while a grumbling thunder-growl of malediction followed each. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life But now the Sicilian Muse returns, all the more lovely for the contrast with the stern malediction that has gone before. 134-151. Minor Poems by Milton What an uproar was now in the mansion! what outcry, screaming, and maledictions without object—questions without answer! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 A flaky-skinned beggar slouched from behind the corner of the building and held out an imploring hand, which the driver's contemptuous denial turned into a clenched fist afloat in a sea of Spanish maledictions. Bring Me His Ears From your rueful countenance a stranger might infer that Pandora’s box had just been opened at ‘Bochim,’ and that the very air was thick with miasma and maledictions.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part There, public malediction was visited on anyone that omitted to guide a stranger on his way. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Is he not twice and thrice wicked, and to be branded with malediction deeper still? Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Here again Timar had done his rivals a bad turn, which would bring their maledictions down on him. Timar's Two Worlds Then, with many maledictions, Pedro rallied his friends and set out along the wagon road, following a trail easily seen notwithstanding the rain which had beaten at the telltale tracks all night. Bring Me His Ears But all at once a female voice began to let off a torrent of abuse, maledictions, curses, vituperations! Weird Tales. Vol. I Since then, from no church has there come an adequate explanation of the malediction under which man is supposed to labour because of the natural propensities of beings that never were. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Hugo uttered a low but emphatic malediction on her "meddlesome folly." Under False Pretences A Novel How great would have been their desolation—what maledictions would they have poured on those who reduced him to such a state! The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 There was, however, more cause for malediction, and further provocations to wrath, in store for the rector. Lady Anna This appeal turned all eyes toward him, and then associating him with an evil, the cause of which they were unable to comprehend, the maledictions of the monks broke forth. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Finally, having exhausted his extensive vocabulary of maledictions on that mob of obdurate sinners, this patriotic officer took himself away, and the boys turned in for the night. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House Gallegher gave a hysterical little gasp of relief as he trotted away from the two policemen, and poured bitter maledictions on their heads for two meddling fools as he went. The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys Overwhelmed and awed by the demoniacal maledictions of the wretched creature whom I had hitherto so intensely despised, I knew not what to think, or how to act. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. But in the teeth of that dubious malediction he persevered, and his next attack was upon aunt Julia. Lady Anna Instead of gladsome applause for an invention that does honor to man and is fraught with benefit for the race, he only has a malediction on his lips. Woman under socialism “Siccome la Regina Giovanna,” is a form of peasant execration around Naples that has some historical affinity with the time-honoured Irish malediction of the “Curse o’ Cromwell.” The Naples Riviera They ever boast of being led by the Spirit, yet their vaunting is mere malediction, not only of Christ in person, but of his Word and his sacraments. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent The gesture was accompanied by maledictions upon crooks and robbers, and the force of his expressions made necessary the use of the handkerchief again. Claim Number One This being driven, hunted, shooed out into the open with blows and curses and scornful maledictions, is a singularly cowing sensation, at once humiliating and embittering. Finn The Wolfhound Muttering something which may have been a Mayoruna malediction, the savage moved aside a step or two, drew another arrow, and set it to the cord with more care than before. The Pathless Trail Then those who had hitherto opposed the lynching of the murderer changed their minds and directed new malediction against him, and those who had handled the rope took keener comfort and greater honor to themselves. Money Magic A Novel Among the sprawled forms of the Rogans they crept, with great dull eyes rolling helplessly to observe their progress, and with feeble squeals of rage and fear and malediction following their slow path. The Red Hell of Jupiter Springing to my feet, I sped up and down my cell like a caged animal, and after many maledictions on "the accursed creed," I succeeded in stilling the tumult of my emotions. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) A glance at the clock showed him that it was four in the morning and he muttered a malediction on the one who had called him. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Mellen's agonized cry was answered by a hoarse murmur from his companion, which sounded like a malediction. A Noble Woman How long, O Catiline, would–– A paralyzing suspicion flashed into the maelstrom of my vituperative maledictions. Our Next-Door Neighbors He was often heard to utter a malediction against the law of heredity. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 The fallen woman had laboriously regained her feet and turned a torrent of vulgar maledictions upon the jeering crowd. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life While their savage disposition was gladdened with the sight, they heaped maledictions on the dead. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. Croustillac, alone between the two groups, was a butt for the invectives, the attacks, and the maledictions of both parties. A Romance of the West Indies It is the malediction of mortals to want what they lack until they get it, when they want it no more. The Paliser case George, who hated Mr. Bottomley, grunted out his malediction, even though no one could hear him. Is He Popenjoy? Over-head The startled fiend his pinion spread, And croaking maledictions, fled. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 Oh my father," she exclaimed with heart-rending emotion, "I am a criminal daughter—a wretch unworthy of the name I bear—yes, I amply merit your wrath and malediction. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. He regarded the face in the miniature with fear and hatred, and dashing it into the drawer, called down maledictions on her. The Strollers They invariably place the hypothetic Cabinet under the direct orders of Archbishop Walsh, and continue to make fun of that great hierarch's famous malediction on Freemasonry. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Johnny, unable to climb, sat below, growling maledictions in bear language, daring him to come down and fight it out. A Mountain Boyhood He arrived at a terrific malediction which he had found effective many years before in dealing with Italian navvies. The Island Mystery I know not my father, nor was I ever anxious to learn a name to me so full of misery, and which could claim no other token from his child than a malediction. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. The girl turned suddenly, one of those harsh oaths upon her lips which even more than any action betray the fallen woman, and hissed out a malediction on his brutal carelessness. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 Be it understood that these religionists live in Ireland and date their malediction from Coleraine. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule There was a general laugh in the office, heavily spiced with maledictions. Dr. Sevier For will it be said that these maledictions and inflictions were the effect of the inspiration of the good Spirit, or the work of good angels? The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Her pride was mortified; in high dudgeon, she crossed herself with fervour; and then departed, muttering something between a prayer and a malediction. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. At this the old virago howled out some insane maledictions, and urged the crowd on. Among the Brigands The late Lord Leitrim was exalted to the skies, but his murdered father was visited with blackest malediction. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule And being trained in the doctrine of the Lord and the Apostles, I am anxious to meet your maledictions with blessing, your insults with honour, your hatred with charity. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I We have in history instances of these devotings and maledictions, and evocations of the tutelary gods of cities by magic art. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. But he heeded not either her tears or her words, and only cast her from him with a rough malediction, declaring her to be an encumbrance. The White Lie Deep and dire are the maledictions heaved at the unhappy Shark, and in which his companions, Rimu and Toto, Wolf and Katipo, have unjustly to share. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand It was like the maledictions in Deuteronomy, only brought up to date by dynamite explosions and automobile accidents. Ghetto Comedies When Zeno died in 491, he was attended to the grave by the contempt of his own wife and the malediction of the people, whom his cruelty, debauchery, and perfidy had alienated. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I He answered that he was forced to it by conjuration and maledictions. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. If Stanton had not been undermined, not only the people would have been saved from terrible disasters, but McClellan, Lincoln, Seward, and Blair would have been saved from reproaches and from malediction. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Then the Doctor, in spite of his Christianity, pronounced a malediction against the Blake womankind. Lover or Friend It was with Godspeed, not the maledictions of one's neighbors, that she had hoped to leave the place which had sheltered her so long. When Dreams Come True A man of unusual intelligence, and an excellent heart, his maledictions fell entirely upon the head of him who had wronged her; for his child he had only tears and consolation. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches There was here, so to speak, a school of soldiers side by side with a school of priests, in which every act of the English government provoked slander, malediction, and schemes of opposition. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) Reproof and punishment greatly differ from cursing and malediction. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Jankiel sent a malediction after the retreating figure; the two others were silent. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story One more glance with the fierce white eyes, a deep grating malediction, and the ruffian braced himself for his deadly job. The Land of Thor Then to our further astonishment his rich Irish voice could be heard upraised in picturesque malediction. Life in a Tank It is a compound of tyrannies and perjuries,—of lies and blood-red murders,—of crimes abominable and unnatural,—of priestly maledictions, socialist ravings, and atheistic blasphemies. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge It rose up against us, as though pronouncing a malediction upon the intruders, upon the profaners of those mysteries that, in the inmost recesses of the jungle, great Mother Nature celebrates during the night. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) She leaned out into it and uttered to the night a hoarse, confused voice, words inchoate, incomprehensible, yet with a terrible accent of rage, of malediction. The Invader A Novel On our arrival at the next pilot station the captain put the pilot ashore, with a parting malediction in the Swedish vernacular. The Land of Thor From end to end, from end to end he goes, Muttering his maledictions—and a name Of one who drowned, it seems—though no one knows, For there's a madness in his words, they claim. Ships in Harbour His mouth was still filled with curses, and maledictions of rage and hatred were poured out upon the runaways. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives Tiburcio! do not leave us so; do you wish to bring upon our house the malediction of heaven?” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora All the way home, the length of Barham Street, where the people stared and laughed, young Fraser repeated all the maledictions he could remember or invent. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 The old feud received, if possible, additional acrimony, and there were no bounds to the maledictions heaped upon the young and imperturbable legislator by his virulent antagonist. Macaria Of course, after hurling a choice malediction after my horse, I was quickly on my feet and doubling after the rest of the "Boys of the Bulldog Breed." A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition Night and day she was possessed by the same fever of malediction, and even in her dreams her attenuated limbs were convulsed with wrath. Germinie Lacerteux Malediction, malediction upon me, who held the avenging hands of my sons! An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere He is clothed with priestly garments, that these, piece by piece, and each with an appropriate insult malediction, may be stripped from him again. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 He left Rome to wander in strange lands, the most frightful anathemas and maledictions ringing in his ears. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds At this sight, as there was no longer any doubt of their intention, the coalheaver uttered a malediction, and the man in the cloak a cry of rage. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental The practice of receiving interest had been confined, until this fifteenth century, with contempt and malediction, to the profession, so styled, of usurers, or to the Jews. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving Then he launched a new series of maledictions against lack of respect and growing irreligion. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere But letters and appeals to the judgment of the world, and awful maledictions, were not their only resources. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Again do I hear the maledictions of the frenzied populace; again do I behold their menacing faces, their threatening gestures. Fibble, D.D. The public, beholding Juancho's inconceivable awkwardness, commenced one of those tremendous uproars in which the Spanish people excel: a perfect hurricane of insulting epithets, of vociferations and maledictions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 They heap maledictions on the Governor, without any of the restraints of courtesy or propriety. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply In the anguish of his despair, he cursed the day of his birth, and uttered dreadful maledictions against his children. Richard I Makers of History Luther teaches that 'Christ did truly and effectually feel for all mankind the wrath of God, malediction, and death.' Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Disappointment and possibly maledictions would probably be the result of any such attempt, except in the case of Xavier de Maistre and Constant. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The mob roared like wild beasts, poured out maledictions on their unkempt heads, hurled stones and sticks at them amid furious din and clamour. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 The gentleman who performed for us the part of Chorus, gave us to wit, that they were lamenting the fall of Algiers, and imprecating maledictions on the head of the French. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 And before the might of her purpose, and the force of her maledictions, he stood as in a trance. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter He sobbed, tore his hair, and called down all the maledictions of Heaven on his head. Laboulaye's Fairy Book Not content with maledictions, Luther then turns himself to prophecy; he announces that his doctrine, which proceeds from heaven, will gain, one by one, all the kingdoms of the world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 Again he hears a malediction, now uttered by his former host: "Get thee out of my island quickly, most guilty of men, hated by the Gods!" Homer's Odyssey A Commentary And while his country bled and fought, the Marquis blushed with shame in London, Berlin and Vienna when his French ears heard the maledictions of the conquered. The Son of Monte-Cristo Phœbe had a certain lurking satisfaction in observing, when his malediction had run itself down, ‘He never consulted Robert.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster He cursed his unnatural enemy with a bitter and terrible malediction. William the Conqueror Makers of History This act drew upon them maledictions from all classes. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The populace yelled and threatened the monks with a thousand maledictions if they opened it. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Inside the store the postmaster and proprietor tilted his chair against the counter and dozed also, though fitfully, and with occasional restless changes of position and smothered maledictions against the heat. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Whereupon Lieutenant Van Haubitz passed half an hour in heaping maledictions on the head of his disobliging commander, and then sat down and wrote an application for an exchange to the authorities in Holland. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 At intervals he had paused to answer and to listen—and the now swiftly dispersing fog enabled him also to see—and finally to utter a little malediction under his breath. Dorothy's Travels It was not clear to Lyon whether this malediction had for its object the original or the painter of the portrait. A London Life and Other Tales This set that peppery individual wild and he tore around considerably, tearing his hair, stamping his feet and sputtering with maledictions at the insult that had been offered him. Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power They listened with the calm of people for whom anathema, reprobation, malediction, and execration were their daily bread. The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 From him he heard a voluble flow of words dealing with regrets, expressions of disgust, one lament after the other, a jeremiade on hard times, maledictions hurled at dilatory creditors, infinite consolation—and empty advice. The Goose Man She uttered continual maledictions against Edward for having murdered her boy, and nothing could soothe or quiet her. Margaret of Anjou Makers of History The plate, bountifully helped, returned from hand to hand down the table, laden with prunes and maledictions. The Varmint Uttering this malediction, he scrambled out of the grave, and suddenly stood before the astonished maiden, who shuddered as she beheld the unshapely outline of a form which she instantly recognised. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Mouthing deep maledictions, he saw the Indian dance a few steps on the trestle, shouting derision at his fleeing followers. The Return of Blue Pete You feel your cheek burning with shame, and, in your desire for revenge, you heap maledictions upon your unfortunate father's head. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus It isn’t often that the name of Arroyo is cursed, without that of Bocardo being mixed up in the malediction.” The Tiger Hunter And then above the grave he says such a malediction upon any who may disturb it as would alone frighten to the death any person coming there and braving such a curse. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive The ghostly finger of old Henry Ford, pointing down through the generations, had lost its power to brand with its malediction the life of these, his descendants. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 I see he does not like that, he frowns, he mutters maledictions. Rita And continually the hoarse voice of the Polly's master roared forth malediction, twisted into new forms of profanity. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Nay, more! for the freedwoman, unconscious of her own impiety, had triumphed in the end; her death—majestic and sublime in its suddenness—had set the seal upon her malediction. "Unto Caesar" The old hag was still shaking her cane and yelling her maledictions. A Prisoner of Morro In the Hands of the Enemy With horrid malediction of their religion and parentage he rode on at a foot's pace. The Valley of the Kings I suffer in silence till their back is turned, and my maledictions accompany them along the road. Rita There was no mistaking the hoarse voice of Captain Candage when it was raised in reply; his tones had become familiar after that evening of malediction. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Then mayhap the blood of her kinsman would stain her hands for ever; then, too, no doubt would come horror, remorse and the malediction of the gods. "Unto Caesar" One cyclist who took corners on trust she cursed by the Ineffable Name, but instantly withdrew the malediction for luck, and addressed his dwindling back with an eye of misery and a voice of benediction. Mary, Mary But ever since he had placed the treasure in its hiding-place, the gospel malediction, "lose his own soul," had been thundering in his ears. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World So the witch, shrieking grisly maledictions, rode away to vent her spite on colicky babies and gouty old men. The House of Toys The profusion of his maledictions could hardly be rivalled in the Fish Market or Bear Garden. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Dea's favours, her loyalty, were turning to bitter malediction for the recipients. "Unto Caesar" But that is more than I hope for my crypto-criminals, and therefore I take this my only way of giving them celebration and malediction in one breath. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 I will find this cup of compunction as full as I have formerly filled the cups of worldly confections, that so I may escape the cup of malediction and irrecoverable destruction that depends upon that. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel Inwardly I was calling down maledictions on her head, for I saw the Professor's tall form receding through the door. David Malcolm Nerved to receive a scourge of maledictions or a blow the culprit waited. Walter and the Wireless Revenge for the desecrated ashes of my fathers—malediction upon the new races! their whirlpool is around me, but it shall not draw me into the giddying and increasing circles of its abyss! The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Still not sufficient to satisfy him, nor allay the wild exasperation burning within his breast, which seeks to vent itself in a string of maledictions poured plenteously from his lips. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Much comfort is not in much sleep, when the most fearful and most irrevocable malediction is presented by thee in a perpetual sleep. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel I called down maledictions on the robust Malcolms and McLaurins who had carried me out of her world and abandoned me to the garrulous Mrs. Bannister and the taciturn Rufus Blight. David Malcolm Indeed, he was soon fully substantiated by others who heard her when she had run home heaping her maledictions on the mill. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills The malediction trembled on her tongue; she raised her staff to smite him, but she checked the action. Rookwood In the doorway they met the Press Agent, looking anything but cheerful and muttering maledictions on the heads of all city editors. Side Show Studies A forceful malediction came from the tug captain, and a whirling monkey-wrench from the hand of the engineer, who had listened from the engine-room door. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea But what was there in their presence to draw down the maledictions of the padre, which he continued to lavish upon them most unsparingly? The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Therefore, even in the hour of my deepest, pas- sionate malediction I try to remember it is also well between us. Look! We Have Come Through! She disowned me as her son; disclaimed all maternal regard, and heaped upon my head a frightful malediction, at the recollection of which I still tremble. Rookwood The captain seated himself in the standing-room, and began to heap maledictions upon the boat. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Then the smoke of battle thinned, and two men with sore heads and bleeding faces retreated painfully and hurriedly to the cabin, followed by snarling maledictions and threats. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea And touching his horse with the spurs, he went on, pursued by the maledictions of Sir Asinus. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 They hurried away, but not before the chief had risen on one elbow and shaken his clenched fist at them, besides displaying a terrible double row of teeth, through which he hissed an unintelligible malediction. Sunk at Sea Would any of you wish to bring down the bereaved widow’s maledictions on your heads? The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean It was a fierce, bitter malediction, full of intense, burning hatred, seeming to embrace God, man and the entire universe in its scope. Monte-Cristo's Daughter The merciless creatures set their dogs upon the pretended mendicant, and thus brought down upon themselves and their posterity this fearful malediction. Brittany & Its Byways The spike-spurred driving-wheels whirred and slashed the ice and snow until the "bite" started the train, and then it moved away up the long road, leaving Ward screaming maledictions after it. The Rainy Day Railroad War Richard Saltire always looked frankly bored, but sometimes he and Mrs. van Cannan exchanged a smile of sympathy at having to listen to the maledictions of Job while the roast was getting cold. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa If you hang me you will bring the malediction of Heaven, and the widow’s curse will rest upon you. The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean He did not notice them, did not seem to pay even the slightest attention to his surroundings, but kept his eyes upturned towards heaven, the murmur of bitter malediction constantly issuing from his lips. Monte-Cristo's Daughter "Doubly accursed," says the Circassian proverb, "is the man that draweth down upon himself the malediction of the aged." Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia "Our silence," says one who was present, "in the midst of these insults, did not satisfy them: we had to suffer menaces, maledictions; stoning through the streets, and the violation of our houses." Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs She had a fierce knife at her waist and would have used it had she the chance, but we removed it from her reach, and she poured a fresher, fuller stream of malediction. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn To get the most out of Charles Schwab throw around him expectation and malediction and then let him take his choice. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak I recovered myself on the instant, however, and with a final malediction, darted toward the bath room. The Paternoster Ruby We are set at this liberty that the curse and malediction of the law fall not upon us. The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics And they had not together proceeded far, filling the air with their cries and uttering maledictions of every form against the unhappy Christians, before a new horror was proclaimed by that blood-thirsty crew. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century She let fly all the maledictions, English and Spanish, of which she had knowledge. The Californians This malediction has awaited me, Who had so many.... The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Leary, refusing to relinquish the oars, swore between strokes, the object of his maledictions being the invisible Carey, whom he consigned to the bottom of the lake in phrases that struck Archie as singularly felicitous. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! To a fresh shaking the drunken man at last gave some tokens of returning consciousness, by making several winding blows at his benefactors, and uttering some half-intelligent maledictions. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Last of all came the name, once given proudly by the young father to his first-born, and now gasped out with maledictions from the same father's dying lips—"Frederick." Agatha's Husband A Novel As he uttered the malediction the disappointed man heaved a last stone, angrily and without an attempt at an aim. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue Groans and maledictions were the order of the night. The Big Otter As Mike gave vent to this malediction, the boat ran swiftly past a low, rocky point, over which the surf was breaking wildly. The Young Fur Traders Here Mr Sparks muttered something very like a malediction on ladies in general, and on ladies who “must” have dresses in particular. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade However, my nurse never, for a long time after, spoke of the reverend gentleman without applying the corner of her apron to her eyes, or her husband without a hearty malediction. Rattlin the Reefer Horses reared, hay-carts swayed, peasants shrieked maledictions or shook fists; but always, crawling at snail's pace, we managed to scrape past without accident. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon The two sculls were found, and, bestowing many maledictions on his companions for not being able to drink with impunity, he made me take one of them, and attempt to pull towards the shore. Peter the Whaler She walked away, shaking her feathers, with an angry malediction of noise. Vesty of the Basins He wound up his remark, which was made in a bantering tone, with another malediction, which was earnest enough—savagely so. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade It was the "accursed politicians" who had led them into such a fratricidal strife who were the objects of our maledictions. Forty-Six Years in the Army The oath was then administered, and it made me call down the most dreadful maledictions on my head, and on the heads of all those dear to me, should I ever break it. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea "A malediction on the creature's shrewdness!" said Count Victor inwardly, while outwardly he simply smiled back. Doom Castle Curses upon them and maledictions upon her came from my lips in horrid succession, until I, the once mild and patient Hajji, had become more furious than a Mazanderan lion. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan Doctor Bataille affirms it; indeed this quality of malediction has been specially dispensed to the nation of heretics by God himself; so says Doctor Bataille. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer When he returned, François assisted him in his maledictions; for François was tired of the bear-meat, and was vexed at being thus a second time cheated out of something fresh for supper. The Boy Hunters When Buonamico heard this, he sent to tell him to do his worst, wherefore the bishop menaced him with a malediction. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) A malediction on the whole tribe of mountaineers! Doom Castle In the South, Douglas was covered with maledictions. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The weaker man capitulated, with a malediction, to the stronger. Roger Ingleton, Minor It was to no purpose that Danton urgently rebuked the senseless animosity with which the Right poured incessant malediction on the Left, and the wild shrieking hate with which the Left retaliated on the Right. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre The malediction of this twenty-five-year-old Colonel appeared rather more comic than terrible. The Man With The Broken Ear There was nothing but a chorus of maledictions against him around the table. The Nabob, Volume 1 "What the hyphenated maledictions are you doing there?" Torchy, Private Sec. His maledictions included everything except his own drunken clumsiness. The Secret of the Storm Country While divine service was being held in the new minster and hymns of praise and thanksgiving were offered at God's altar, the devil flew with horrible maledictions over the country. Legends of the Rhine With a muttered malediction on British manufacturers, Colwyn struck several more in rapid succession before he succeeded in lighting the candle at his bedside. The Shrieking Pit "What—what—what?" sputtered the Highland governor, springing first on one side of Grant and then on the other, all the while rumbling out maledictions on Lord Selkirk, and Governor McDonell and Fort Douglas. Lords of the North When he reached the garden all was still, and he loosed his malediction upon the night air. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories He was bleeding and dazed, but not so dazed but what he could heap maledictions upon the head of his superior officer. Frontier Boys in Frisco Its profuse maledictions, once confined to the evildoers of Mecca, now include all unbelievers everywhere. The Necessity of Atheism And with a parting malediction, which showed wonderful ingenuity in blasphemy, he growled out an order to back water; when the boat was turned, and headed for the ship. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' They scolded, railed and imprecated, Abased, defied and execrated; With malediction, ban and curse They simply went from bad to worse; Carramba! The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs Taking advantage of the credulity of the people, they cursed those whom they disliked, and many were the endeavours to counteract their maledictions. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales He knew that his turkeys were going, and, muttering a parting malediction at Frank, he set off at a run to protect his poultry-yard. The Drummer Boy He is not placed there as a target for the maledictions of disappointed spectators. Base-Ball How to Become a Player Then the maiden came to him and said, “The malediction of Heaven attend thee for thy work, since thou hast left that monster alive, who lays waste all the possessions p. 103of the Empress.” The Mabinogion Vol. 1 But death upon the cross was a death of malediction, as we read Deut. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Even kings have not escaped the Church's maledictions. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The pain of their sting was such that he had to set his teeth to keep back a growl of malediction upon their evil fangs. Jack Haydon's Quest This act had brought down upon him criticisms, quite like maledictions, from the Anti-Slavery Party. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 But she had forsaken him, had separated him from her as one who was accursed, and whose very name was a malediction. Cobwebs and Cables "Yes," and the man walked on with a muttered malediction. With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War But we of today shall be wise in refusing to allow our life to be unnecessarily darkened, or hedged round with imaginary maledictions and foes. The Buried Temple Movement was almost an impossibility; a leg drawn tight in a cramp disturbed the whole fabric of slumbering humanity; the man who turned round came in for a shower of maledictions. The Red Horizon If possible, she would rather use words of love than of malediction. Cape Cod Folks He has doubtless pronounced a secret malediction against the earth. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity For if Austro-German society had admitted the Jews to civil rights, it had made them feel as never before the old hatred and malediction and exclusion. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers He walked about the room, muttering maledictions between his teeth and balancing, as best he was able at such a moment, his pride against his profit. Can You Forgive Her? There, his limbs unbound, his tongue unloosed, Murray indulged in a blast of malediction on the road, the company, the government, his comrades, even his benefactors, and then thoughtfully demanded drink. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila The dozing night clerk gave him both, with a sleepy malediction thrown in; and he went back to the engine-room and scribbled his word-picture by the light of the swinging incandescent. The Price The malediction is no secret to any who will read the twenty ninth chapter of Deuteronomy; nor is the avenging of the quarrel of God's covenant confined to the sins of past generations. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity The feelings of a father repressed his maledictions, while he gazed on him with stern silence as he would on a portentous meteor. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel But he hardly arrested the torrent of his maledictions as he did so. Can You Forgive Her? It took much negotiation to induce the prince to reduce the sum to sixty thousand ducats, which the merchant raised and paid,—with a malediction on all words of compliment. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII No!—Can your malediction disturb the slumbers of a quiet conscience? Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Its seeds were sown by the Romans with maledictions and curses through the belief that the more it was abused the better it would prosper. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The war brought down upon them the maledictions of vast herds of right-thinking men. The Antichrist Then oaths from another voice came floating up and they had no difficulty in recognizing the choice maledictions of the captain as he rushed on deck to ascertain the cause of the disturbance. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World They shouted maledictions on their way against the queen and the Prince of the Peace. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII The stirring glacial fields of summer, monsters of the ages, boomed out their maledictions upon ears deaf to all their pristine wrath. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon When the power of speech returned, he broke into fierce and terrible maledictions. Steve Yeager Ecclesiastically and doctrinally they stood in the open, while Romanist and Protestant, Anglican and Puritan, Calvinist and Arminian waged bitter war, filling the air with angry maledictions. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry He returned Gabriel's maledictions with bows and smiles. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World He wired to his guests not to come; he discharged his servants; and as he crossed the border next day, he bade farewell to the stern and wild Caledonia in a most impressive malediction. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World I have heard the boom of cannon, the rattle of musketry, the hiss of rockets, the wail of the wounded, the shriek of the dying, the malediction over the dead. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 And so the crowd now began to hurl maledictions on the innocent head of the receiver. The Substitute Prisoner Thither the Patriarch followed him with his maledictions. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Then, having lifted Alice out, he returned it with a bow, and, heedless of the maledictions of the old man, proceeded to get the stone and the pot up again. Cross Purposes and The Shadows She heaped reproaches, taunts, and maledictions on the head of the signor, who bore them with more equanimity than would be supposed, but who determined not to have another such tempest. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 But no such malediction as that ever fell from the lips of the typical American slave; oppressed, like the Man of Sorrows, he opened not his mouth. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro So I am not afraid of that threat; and as to maledictions, you are much too kind and good-natured to utter such stuff; and, besides, curses are just as harmless and useless as blessings. Dr. Dumany's Wife On the day following, thirteen were present, most of whom had heard the maledictions of the Armenian Patriarch pronounced, the day before, on all who should visit the missionaries. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Under the malediction of Church and State, Luther was lost sight of for some months. Lectures on Modern history The rickety little man had been for Mr. Hawke, and this sudden turning of his coat provoked a tempest of cheers from the Frosts and maledictions from the Hawkes. The President A novel We could not be happy with their malediction pending over us.' Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches It was poverty and disgrace, the detection of my crimes, the looks and voice of malediction and upbraiding, from which my cowardice shrunk. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 And Patrick cursed the people of that country; but Bishop Maine of the Hy-Ailella, who prayed Patrick regarding forgiveness for his kinsmen, and Patrick modified the malediction. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings When the malediction falls on creatures, without any reference to their relationship to God, we have cursing in its proper form with a special malice of its own. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals But the prophet's voice at last got so shrieky and monotonous, that instead of warning and inspiring a second generation, these terrific maledictions began to pall upon a practical world. Studies in Early Victorian Literature With a malediction at his heart, but with a smile on his lips, Captain Ducie made reply. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 With a violent malediction he bent forward listening. The Lighted Match And the saint, wounded in his heart, cast the weapon of his malediction on this child of hell, who, pierced thereby, even at the moment breathed out his soul into the infernal regions. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings These latter can do nothing but curse and heap maledictions upon all who do not share their lot. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals If ever Lear's or Timon's power of malediction could be justifiably called into exercise, it would be against such a tribunal and such witnesses as they had generally to encounter. Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Shall I not bestow a malediction on every other of nature's offspring, which dares live and enjoy, while I live and suffer? The Last Man Occasionally he raised his head as some young dog scurried near, yelping maledictions upon a perfect tangle of fox tracks, none of which went anywhere. Ways of Wood Folk Wherefore the saint punished him with the sentence of his malediction, and foretold that not one of his seed should reign after him, but that his kingdom should be transferred to Kerellus, his younger brother. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings The malediction of Heaven, the almighty wrath of God follows him or her who despises a parent. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals At the most he would fling out some cryptic hint, bestow some malediction upon life in general. The Hidden Places Colonel Fortescue brought upon himself many maledictions from the junior officers by the way in which he regulated these balls. Betty at Fort Blizzard The ghastly inhuman sneer on his thin widening lips assaulted me like a giant's malediction, and the light in the room seemed to become more brilliant till it was almost blinding. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural Then the saint, more grievously taking the hindrance of his purpose than his own expulsion, began to cast on them and on their seed the dart of his malediction. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings He employed blasphemies, maledictions; he smote my poor husband on the nose and in the stomach—all to no purpose, for he is gone. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories He, too, was sitting, but upright, and his arm was raised with a threatening gesture as if in his desolating anger he were about to pronounce a malediction upon the vanishing twilighted town. Visionaries Shouts, groans, maledictions of all sorts and degrees followed. The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar. The reader taking up this volume will, for the first time in the work of one who hitherto had cursed no man, find words of hatred and malediction. The Wrack of the Storm Curses, horrible, blighting curses, combinations of malediction which had never even in thought entered his mind before, rolled from his lips. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman And Devereux first grew so pale as almost to frighten Toole, and then broke into a savage fury—and did not spare hard words, oaths, or maledictions. The House by the Church-Yard With a muttered malediction upon this ruthless destroyer of his rest, the detective donned his clothing, and, feeling as tired and unrefreshed as though he had not slept at all, descended to the dining-room. The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives An unspoken malediction rose out of his soul. The Courage of Marge O'Doone Before closing this book, I wish to weigh for the last time in my conscience the words of hatred and malediction which it has made me speak in spite of myself. The Wrack of the Storm His father received him with a hurricane of reproaches, threats, maledictions. Infelice It was in the midst of one of these impotent fits of malediction that the wainscot door was opened and closed softly, and light footsteps tiptoed to my bedside. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The Juez is there, and I call the malediction of the priests on my head if you, too, are not doomed. Romance Inwardly he muttered maledictions on the sentry of the watch, little knowing that the burglars had entered the house while he was himself on guard. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life
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