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  • A good execrator could here pause a few weeks and do well.

    Comic History of England Bill Nye 1873

  • The curse worked best in the absence of the execrator.

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Nor wonder at her being so affected; she, whose filial piety gave her dreadful faith in a father's curses; and the curse of this gloomy tyrant extending (to use her own words, when she could speak) to both worlds -- O that it had turned, in the moment of its utterance, to a mortal quinsy, and, sticking in his gullet, had choked the old execrator, as a warning to all such unnatural fathers!

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Nor wonder at her being so affected; she, whose filial piety gave her dreadful faith in a father’s curses; and the curse of this gloomy tyrant extending (to use her own words, when she could speak) to both worlds — O that it had turned, in the moment of its utterance, to a mortal quinsy, and, sticking in his gullet, had choked the old execrator, as a warning to all such unnatural fathers!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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