Curst

I found him rubbing down poor Molly, who looked as if she had made a hard trip of it, with the others clustered around him asking questions, all except for Ben Fadger, who crouched over the cauldron like the Witch in The Curst King, muttering darkly and stirring a bubbling, fragrant stew.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

I found him rubbing down poor Molly, who looked as if she had made a hard trip of it, with the others clustered around him asking questions, all except for Ben Fadger, who crouched over the cauldron like the Witch in The Curst King, muttering darkly and stirring a bubbling, fragrant stew.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

Curst be that fortune which sets a distance between us.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

First will I perrish in this liquid round, Neuer shall Sunne-burnt _Spanyards_ tongue endeare _Iberian_ eares with what shall me confound, The life I haue, I for my Mistris beare, Curst were that life, should it her scepter wound, And trebble cursed be that damned thought,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Curst be the impious hand that would dare to violate the unblemished form of Chastity!

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

_ Curst Misfortune, come along with me, my Heart feels Pleasure at her Name.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

Curst Wife_, which he thinks was a revival of the old _Taming of a Shrew_, brought out as a rival to Shakspeare's play.

Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 Various

I remember how Charles Hadley used to laugh at your 'Curst stand-and-deliver stare.'

The Highwayman 1919

Curst be that fortune which sets a distance between us.

X. Showing the Truth of Many Observations of Ovid, and of Other More Grave Writers. Book V 1917