I am of that outcast crew To lean and to vengeance true, Who curse the hour your Arabs came To desecrate our shrines of flame, And swear before God's burning eye, To break our country's chains or die.
The sculpture represents the wife of Amphion at the moment when the curse of Apollo and Diana falls upon her, and her children are slain before her eyes.
There was a laugh from the two first and a loud curse from the last as he sprawled in the mire.
It’s a dreadful curse that, honey; and I would advise people to avoid it even though they give away all they have.
Work was once considered simply a curse of the poor.
Thank God, she had left no child of mine behind her to inherit the curse her mother's blood had handed down to her!
The Curseof Scotland--Why the Nine of Diamonds is so called.
Why, rather than refuse any request of the woman he loved, however extravagant, he voluntarily shared in her ruin, and courted the curse of her fall.
Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!
I would have my child happy; I would have her husband ever warm in his love for her as he is this moment; I would have the curse of her parents forever averted from her head.
If I speak, it must be to pronounce the curse of our Holy Church and of Heaven on your head.
We had done a cursed deed, and God's curse was to follow us.
For if a man hate another and begrudge him anything good, it is possible that if he curse him, that curse may take effect.
May Heaven grant that love be a blessing and not a curse to me!
It depends upon how it is governed, whether sensibility be a curseor a blessing to its possessor, and to society.
And, worse and worse, Some bodily form of ill Floats on the wind, with many a loathsome curse Tainting the hallowed air, and laughs and flaps Its hideous wings, And makes me wild with horror and dismay.
She felt that he must for ever abhor the sight of her; she was afraid he {116} might curse her!
Prime blessings changed to curse 'Twixt God and man can set God's universe.
We are indebted to England for the curse of slavery, and then for the slavery agitation.
It is our curse that we are always 'just a little' behind the enemy in enthusiasm.
He would curse me for a d--d Yankee, and I would give him as good as he sent.
We, immovable and besotted in our ancient sanctuaries, deliberately give pain to little children, deliberately arouse in them that curseof old savagery, blind fear.
The curseof the country is venal mal-administration.
Ah," said the ketchuda, a handsome Seyyid, "your land is then indeed under the curseof God.
I shall curse thee fearfully, If thou provok'st me further: and take heed, woman; My curses never miss.
Were but to curse my Father; that's too impious; But under whatsoever fate I suffer, Bless I beseech thee heaven her harmless goodness.
Thou subtle Circe, Cast not upon the maiden light eclipses: Curse not the day.
And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein; and His servants shall do Him service: and they shall see His face; and His name shall be on their foreheads.
We are more able than ever before to appreciate the standpoint occupied by Job's wife, when she said to her husband, "Curse God, and die.
And when all hearts are yielded to the King; when all gates lift up their heads, and all everlasting doors are unfolded for his entrance--then the curse which has so long brooded over the world shall be done away.
Love is always joy in itself; it is the one deliverance from self-bondage to which self is the one curse and misery of man.
This is the curse of religious controversy, that it blinds men to the practical importance of the truths for which they are fighting.
I curse the cook who made the mulligatawny, but I forget that I ate two platefuls of it.
The curseof flies by day, of mosquitoes by night added increasing miseries for the travelers.
With a curse Jackson flung his gun from him, began to recoil the muddied ropes.
The old superstitious Asiatic curse fixed upon her by the church was laughed scornfully into nothingness.
Woman by the very law of her existence was a curse and a temptation to sin.
Van Vuren hurled a curseafter him, and turned to ascend.
Mark you now, when I throw a curse over them, how they shall be brought down in their pride.
He died but half an hour ago, with a curse upon his tongue.
The curse of God shall surely fall upon us," cried the Puritan furiously.
The curse entailed on women in the article of child-bearing does not fall so heavy in this as in the northern countries.
We separated within three months, and the first oath that ever passed my lips was a curse for her.
When she went away with him I took an oath that I would never think of her again; that should she come back to me on her knees, I would curse her, but I am so lonely that I should almost welcome her if she came to taunt me.
Particularism, the historic curse of the country, again raised its head.
Particularism was to the last the curse and weakness of the German Empire.
