cursers

Whereas the screamers and cursers (retail nightmares) just draw out their having to ‘deal with us’ for far longer than they would have.

In theory, at least.

The satanists, cursers, death-talkers, all the wrongdoers who made CNN were pigeons compared with his long-distance comrades.

License Invoked

Faint at first in its appearance, it gained strength with every passing lustre; and however sweeping the condemnation pronounced by early believers against vain signs and images expressive of the objects of this fleeting world, the voices of the cursers gradually hushed, and the mind of man, asserting its prerogative, was active again with new and regenerated power.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847

But of those whom I still met, among them several escaped Switzers under Palatine names, I found them for the most part godless, rebellious people; among them murderers, thieves, adulterers, cursers, and swearers.

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois

The cursers were those who came in from their posts to snatch a handful of supper, and foraged about in larder and pantry demanding to know what had become of Jane.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales

Twenty-four years of age, well educated, a gentleman by birth and breeding, an athlete who stood six feet two inches high in his stockings, the gulf was wide, indeed, between him and the charity-cursers who had taken his money.

The Wheel O' Fortune

The husbandmen, citizens, lawyers and priests are hard and avaricious; the princes, dukes and noble lords are proud, vain, cursers, swearers, and traitors.

The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2

Umbreit explains it as "magical incantations that darken the day," forming the climax to the previous clauses; Job 3: 8 speaks of "cursers of the day" similarly.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

A certain class of cursers much dreaded in Ireland are those of the widow and the orphan.

Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

One of the more imaginative cursers I have ever encountered works in the i office.

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