In the following maledictory address from Ph. Fletcher's 2nd eclogue, st. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850] Reference
After that, the performer instantly departs with maledictory expressions, and is never heard of more. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
These pantaloons were made of a goat's skin; the long white wool, inches in length, left on and hanging down below the knees of the man, gave him a Pan-like look, and with the word tombola, suggested the lines of that good old song -- save the maledictory part of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
Lena's maledictory epistle had added brimstone to the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference
Great profanated balls of execrating dysphemistic maledictory cacophemisms. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsy Scholar] Reference
It is remarkable for the maledictory inscription engraved on its base: QUICUNQUE HUNC CALICEM INVADIAVERIT. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Not one of the spectators of the scene referred to was in reality amazed -- not one contemptuous, not one maledictory. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Washington was under the Masonic self-maledictory oath, having in November 1752 joined a Masonic lodge in Fredericksburg, Va. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY - otsego county news, delaware county news, oneonta news, oneonta sports Home] Reference
And then, when he was at the top of his maledictory bent, he would suddenly break away and begin whimperingly to commiserate the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference
As for that maledictory eructation about your "feelings" toward the end of the piece: I should remind you that ladies, and children, read this paper too. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsy Scholar] Reference
With the night, the dream-like landscape, and the maledictory harangues which had haunted me during the darkness, passed away, and the morning found us nearing the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference
This imputation on his own respectability and that of his master, the domestic seemed by no means to relish; for, muttering some maledictory menace, which I at first took to be German, but which. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
And with one more longing, lingering look at the scenes which he had quitted for a lot like that of the Duke of Buckingham's dog, upon whom his master pronounced the maledictory wish that “he were married and lived in the country,” this characteristic letter concludes. From Wordnik.com. [Sterne]
A look of indignation and shooed them to retreat in maledictory Italian. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
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