A malediction was pronounced against the town and ever since there has been no fresh water there.    From LearnThat.org. 

But what shall I do, if my father cannot be prevailed upon to recall his malediction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6] Reference

Agastya's malediction, have come by this condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

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

With a malediction at his heart, but with a smile on his lips, Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference

As he lies in a swoon the wood-wind in turns continue the malediction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

Hamas is one of the names of the malediction of the Palestinian people.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009] Reference

The words were of his native language, but the malediction was universal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference

It could not be possible that her existence was to end with the malediction of this man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Maxwell's teeth grated, and Hatchie distinctly heard the malediction he bestowed upon him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference

Then letting go, she cursed the tribe; she called upon them the malediction of all the spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

Thirdly, we have to cleanse the malediction that came from killings of our brothers and sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: Who Is Laurent Nkunda? Savior or Villain in Congo?] Reference

Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

I recovered myself on the instant, however, and with a final malediction, darted toward the bath room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

Then to our further astonishment his rich Irish voice could be heard upraised in picturesque malediction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Tank] Reference

And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

They raised their hands and rolled their eyes upwardly, as though about to pronounce a malediction on John.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages] Reference

What the parent does will run out in its legitimate consequences to the child, either as a malediction or as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Home] Reference

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

The ungentle reader (upon whom a malediction) will discover that this little book is not by any means exhaustive.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Botha in the Field] Reference

All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

Mother Shipton saw it, and from a remote pinnacle of her rocky fastness hurled in that direction a final malediction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

Mother Shipton saw it, and from a remote pinnacle of her rocky fastness, hurled in that direction a final malediction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

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

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference

But the people feared the lunatic and despised him as if he had been struck by some malediction which excommunicated him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921] Reference

And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 32: Daniel The Challoner Revision] Reference

Decidedly, the more I think of this excellent man, the more I reproach myself for the sort of malediction I bestowed on him when I awoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

There were words in it, but no distinguishable word, it gabbled and stormed like a malediction, broken by sobbing pauses to draw in breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Novice]

Were Taglioni, by the malediction of Providence, to break her leg, what corner of the civilized earth but would sympathize in the casualty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference