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The mother puts her malison, or curse, upon him, but he rides off.— Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series
Surely from thee neither shall Typhoeus, nay, nor Chimaera of the evil name, shield death that layeth low, but here shall black earth and bright Hyperion make thee waste away So he spake in malison, and darkness veiled her eyes, and there the sacred strength of the sun did waste her quite away.— The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
He had a candle in his hand, which he shaded with his coat from her eye; his back was towards her, and he was rummaging in the drawer in which she usually kept her money Having got her quarter's pension of two pounds that day, however, she had placed it, folded in a rag, in the corner of her tea caddy, and locked it up in the "eat-malison" or cupboard She was frightened when she saw the figure in her room, and she could not tell whether her visitor might not have made his entrance from the contiguous churchyard.— Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
O! be his tomb as lead to lead 715 Upon its dull destroyer's head A minstrel's malison is said Then on its battlements they saw A vision, passing Nature's law Strange, wild, and dimly seen 720 Figures that seem'd to rise and die, Gibber and sign, advance and fly, While nought confirm'd could ear or eye Discern of sound or mien.— Marmion

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