Curses
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Examples
- Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Curses on your head, and black death on your heart, you imp! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- As for the landlord of the hotel, his curses against the English nation were violent for the rest of his natural life. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I don't care a curse for the T'other governor, alive or dead, but I care a many curses for my own self. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He dared not own that the severity of the sentence frightened him, and that its fulfilment had come too soon upon his curses. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He went downstairs, where, by the way, he vented the most horrid curses upon the unoffending footman, his subordinate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I'm always nice to Ferguson unless she curses me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- How fearful were the curses those propensities entailed on me! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Venerable men of his own persuasion had come to pray beside him, but he had driven them away with curses. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I growled out my curses on the monster sitting opposite us on the gorgeous throne. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I got down into the canoe, while the Dutchman, standing upon the deck, loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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