The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.    From LearnThat.org.  [Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist.]

Rather, grinding through her imprecations is a scandalous joviality without hope, rays from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Schillie went off muttering horrible imprecations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

Signal Corps, and many groans and imprecations from all concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference

In every direction challenges, insults, and imprecations were heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

His big voice boomed forth in a torrent of blasphemous imprecations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

At the word "taxes," a new storm of wailing and imprecations broke out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

With indistinguishable imprecations and his arms waving in the air, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

I was merely muttering a few imprecations at you for disturbing my rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference

The books on Greek games and on imprecations were almost certainly composed in Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

This poor unhappy man set up dreadful cries, interrupted by complaints and imprecations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

The wayfarer stood in the middle of the road, hurling imprecations in the choicest argot at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

When I came to the place where they all were, I heard lamentations and fierce imprecations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

The red-meat Republicans yelling imprecations at McCain-Palin rallies are still stuck in the culture wars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama the Unruffled] Reference

And the Colonel continued his imprecations, this time directing them toward the supposed vender of the whiskey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Again and again she uttered the bitterest imprecations and the fiercest cries for a taste of youth and happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gray Nun] Reference

Her form dilated, she sprang before her step-father and the ring of her voice checked the imprecations on his lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

The leader of the Palestinian delegation, Abdul Shafi, delivered an opening speech devoid of threats and imprecations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind The Insults] Reference

Sometimes his aid was implored in most humble prayers -- sometimes demanded with the wildest imprecations and threats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

He awoke with a start to the sound of smashing glass, a sharp rattle of imprecations and a sense of being turned upside down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

Crowds were advancing through the suburbs, and the streets were filling with ruffians, uttering the most horrid imprecations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

He could not describe the condition of the man he saw without imprecations on his jailer and the whole country that held them.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

With subdued oaths and imprecations he left us, having been several times interrupted by urgent entreaties from his companions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

They jostle her, utter vile imprecations, dispute for the right of carrying her, each in his turn offering to do it a shilling less.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

The imprecations, contained in the thirty verses of this psalm, are opposed to the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

The king now invoked the most solemn imprecations on the head of the murderer, and offered a reward for any information concerning him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

Her thunderbolts were only electricity; her imprecations against the enemies of her husband were only anger; that passed with the storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Perhaps these very men a few hours before, were impiously invoking their own destruction, or venting imprecations upon their fellow beings!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

But once inside the great chamber, they shrank back against the wall with whispered imprecations at the final, desperate trick fate had played on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

Moments after the bombardment in Selce, we took refuge in a nearby coffee shop where village men gathered and shouted imprecations against their attackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Thick Of It] Reference

For he used to go and dip and soak his feet in the river, and uttered imprecations and prayed that they might rot off if he was guilty of treason or crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Often and often, when I am just losing myself in sleep, I am startled by the most frightful groans and unearthly imprecations, coming out of these hogsheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

At this cry of bitter agony from Andras Zilah, Marsa's imprecations ceased; and she threw herself madly at his feet; while he stood erect and pale -- her judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The Colonel's handsome face was inflamed with passion; he strode up and down, venting imprecations of an intensity only to be achieved by an enraged Southerner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The book sprawls, the consequential and the inconsequential getting equal time, its margins sprouting invocations, imprecations, and pleas from a vexed me: Stop!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Zion] Reference