Here are the Gascons cursing and damning, demanding the restitution of their bells.
Cursing my stupidity, I jerked my handkerchief from my pocket, and, climbing a little way into the rigging, I began to wave it madly.
The Neapolitan was up again in an instant, foaming at the mouth, andcursing volubly, but ready hands held him back.
He spent the rest of that day in hoarsely cursing me from the second mate's berth.
We hauled sharp up to windward, and, as we drew on, we saw what was the matter, and the sight caused our Old Man to dive below to his charts, cursing his wayward chronometer.
Cursing the stubborn folds, swaying dizzily on the slippery footropes, shouting for hold and gasket, we fought the struggling wind-possessed monster, and again the leach was passed along the yard.
Small comfort this to the Old Man, who was now in the vilest of tempers, and spent his days in cursing the idle steersman, and his nights in quarrelling with the Mates about the trim.
Their tongues were cursing and blaspheming; and now are occupied in praising God.
Suppose a person is in the habit of cursing one hundred times a day: should we advise him not to utter more than ninety oaths the following day, and eighty the next day; so that in the course of time he would get rid of the habit?
There was a great babblement among them, congratulating one another on their lucky escape and on their having found quarters, cursing the savages very heartily, and hoping they would now sheer off.
But they told me that he was deaf to all their entreaties, and kept himself close shut in the hut, only cursing when they spoke to him, and threatening to blow out the brains of any man that offered to molest him.
We crouched down, cursing under our breath, trembling all over, our knees lacerated from the strands of the cut barbed wire on the ground, waiting for a challenge and the inevitable volley of rifle fire.
Cursing and blinding was the order of things upon the receipt of this order, but we moved.
It was blocked with laughing, cheering, and cursing soldiers.
We crouched on the ground, cursing the offender under our breath, and waited the volley that generally ensues when the Germans have heard a noise in No Man's Land.
It has groves of coco-trees, and streams tumbling down the rocks--on which no boat can row with men cursing in her and fighting with knives.
Everyone was cursing him; and in order to check him I said, "I should like to listen to the play.
I was in a rage, and, heartily cursing the fellow, I spurred my horse up hill and down dale, and brushed through boughs as thick as my arm.
As was later shown us in regard to the story of the cursing of the fig-tree, that of the marriage in Cana was a parable having a spiritual import; and the character of Jesus was cleared from the reproaches based on the literal sense.
The parable of thecursing of the barren fig-tree was explained to us as denoting the loss by the church of the inward understanding, the Intuition.
All that she had ever known of the King's power was when the convent by their castle gates had been thrown out of doors, and then her men-folk, cursing and raging, had sworn that it was the work of Crummock.
In his steel armour, from which his old head stood out benign and silvery, he strutted stiffly from cage to cage, talking softly to his horses and cursing at the harnessers.
Cromwell had a prime favorite among these psalms; it was the one hundred and ninth and is known as the "cursing psalm.
Moscow, clutching every now and then at his head, and bitterly cursing his luckless fate.
He spent the greater part of his time in his state-room, grumbling at the steward, abusing his valet, beating his bad-tempered terrier and cursing the luck that had brought him on this senseless voyage.
All this time Sancho stood on the hill watching the crazy feats his master was performing, and tearing his beard and cursing the hour and the occasion when fortune had made him acquainted with him.
So my lord repeats it again, cursing and swearing, like St. Peter in the judgment hall.
In some of the Scottish islands it is the custom to beach a boat, from which a fisherman had been drowned, cursing it for its misdeed and letting it dry and fall to pieces in the sun.
This incident, he adds, was so well known that the cursing of the flies of Foigny became proverbial and formed the subject of a parable.
They jumped up like Jack-in-the-boxes, and the cursing broke out anew.
Then the Feldwebel appeared and addressed the soldiers, cursing them roundly for bringing us in alive instead of dead.
He tore at the bolt, cursing and swearing, and then put up his rifle at the crowd of jeering prisoners above him.
He came up in a furious rage, cursing us and brandishing a revolver.
The sentry reloaded his rifle and glanced about him at a crowd of angry men, who were threatening and cursing him in four languages from every side.
The fellow behind came up cursingand panting, and I was marched along the road to the left.
The old woman stopped crying, the sufferer stopped cursing and groaning.
Or had someone----He doubled his pace, cursing his throbbing head and his own simplicity and impotence.
Renwick was awakened some while later by the young Hungarian officer's cursing as he stumbled over the Englishman's feet.
The man swore at him in bad German and Renwick drew back against the wall, sure that the game was up, until he realized that the fellow was only cursing because he was almost, if not quite as much startled as Renwick.
Here they huddled in security, cursing their ill fortune, their losses, and the Indians.
Off she reeled, bleeding and roaring, and while on her approach she had been blessing Heaven and inventing sweet speeches for Matty, on her retreat she was cursing fate and heaping all sorts of hard names on the Amazon she came to flatter.
She lashed at it again and again, cursing horribly.
But there to the left was the historic tree simply alive with young Arrises cursing and scorning him.
