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  • Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence, They take pleasure in falsehood, They bless with their mouths, But inwardly they curse,

    Grande Illusions | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Now some folks'll tell you that drinkings a curse,

    Jolly Well Drunk 1997

  • You're a soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curse,

    NO TIME TO THINK Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1978

  • Wine is gargled, throats are cleared and a good number of the company commence singing THE BALLAD OF TANTIVY MUCKER-MAFFICK Oh Italian gin is a mother's curse,

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • They froze in their places, and Conan, bending to aid them, wheeled with a startled curse,

    Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

  • Whereas, then, of this law there are two parts, the one absolute or preceptive in the rule and commands thereof, the other condition, al, and rewarding in its promise or condemning in its curse,

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Cowper tells us that labour, though the primal curse,

    MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

  • The ministers, in a great measure, set the standard of morality in our land, and when they will rise to the occasion and make a long strike, a strong strike, a strike altogether against this ball-room curse,

    From the Ball-Room to Hell Thomas A. Faulkner

  • When she perceived that she could not understand the language that was being used she put down her basket and uttered a loud curse,

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • I was just like a child with money; I flung it away with a curse,

    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses 1916

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