Oh, earth! how often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 16] Reference
Beset as he has been on all sides, he could not refrain, and would only imprecate patience till he shall again have. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
And for (the truth of) these things, I am willing to imprecate my children, both these and those I have had later, wherever you may please. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
But I threw myself at her feet, and took hold of her reluctant hand, and began to imprecate, avow, to promise — But thus the passionate beauty, interrupting me, went on. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
England that does not imprecate curses on his name. From Wordnik.com. [True Stories of History and Biography] Reference
And on all the men of Vaiau imprecate instant death. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads] Reference
New England that does not imprecate curses on his name. From Wordnik.com. [Grandfather's Chair] Reference
How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
I imprecate the wrath of heaven on this tiger, who tore my only comfort from me. From Wordnik.com. [Maria, or, The Wrongs of Woman] Reference
There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly. From Wordnik.com. [The Alaskan] Reference
If Sowell could imprecate them with his words, then this book would be their demise. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
But they did really imprecate wrath and vengeance upon themselves and their posterity. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Bowing my head to think -- to pray -- to imprecate, I lost all sense of time and place. From Wordnik.com. [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference
He ceased to imprecate only when, by repetition, his oaths became too inexpressive to be worth while. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle's Heart] Reference
I called upon the spirits of the injured — I descended to imprecate curses upon him who had worked their ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Monmouth: a Tale, Founded on Historic Facts] Reference
Balak, to entreat the prophet to come to them, that he might imprecate curses to the destruction of the Israelites. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquities of the Jews] Reference
The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
Further, he made the priests imprecate curses on any one who had dealings with the Persians or deserted the Greek cause. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume II] Reference
To imprecate evil on any living being seems to them unchristian, barbarous, a relic of dark ages and dark superstitions. From Wordnik.com. [Town and Country Sermons] Reference
"I would imprecate on the traitor's head," said a voice from one of the high-backed chairs, "the ancient doom of the Law!". From Wordnik.com. [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference
I must stop, stop to repress a mother's anguish; left, in bitterness of soul, I imprecate the wrath of heaven on this tiger, who tore my only comfort from me. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
A roar of indignation against the Englishmen who had dared, under the hypocritical pretence of devotion, to imprecate curses on England. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
Didst imprecate for, on me, — death. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
I imprecate the same, a juster fate, against the authors of his death. ". From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference
Cry, imprecate, do something, rather than stand there with that stony gaze! "said Louise, as she caught me frantically by the arm. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
On me and mine I imprecate. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
May suffer all I imprecate on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
Didst imprecate for on me, -- death. From Wordnik.com. [Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation.] Reference
Didst imprecate for, on me, -- death. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
To imprecate thy bones to Fo-bi's pie. From Wordnik.com. [Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx] Reference
Did imprecate quick ruin, and it came. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
(to imprecate curses upon him who had worked their ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Monmouth: a Tale, Founded on Historic Facts] Reference
To imprecate the knave. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
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