Ulrich loses his head, and the brother pronounces the imprecation which is found there and in I.
The ballad stops abruptly with a half-pettish, half-humorous imprecationfrom the daughter-in-law against the mother for keeping her shut up so long.
It would wreck a railway, perhaps, or deplete a bloated insurance exchequer, but it would not launch an ungentlemanly imprecation or utter a trivial or unproductive oath.
Her commercial instincts had been powerfully quickened in her early years by an admonitory imprecation from a royal, or official, source.
His strong swearing instincts, 72 "God dern" not a Virginian oath, 74 imprecation upon a seller of inherited slaves.
A simpler form ofimprecation occurs very frequently in manuscripts belonging to S.
He drew it out, glanced at it, and put it into his inner pocket with an imprecation followed by a triumphant laugh.
But when he had passed Ralph Ansell turned and, glancing covertly after him, an evil expression upon his strong, clean-shaven face, muttered a fierce imprecationin French beneath his breath.
And so he did, muttering an imprecation upon the little lamp that had gone out and left the small hall in darkness.
He heard every word of Mendoza's imprecation and thought it proper to rebuke him for speaking so freely.
A single savage imprecation burst from Blucher's lips, but only the nearest bystanders heard it, for it was drowned by the roar of artillery and the thunder of heaven.
As weak as water,' replied Mr. Sikes, with animprecation on his eyes and limbs.
This imprecation had reference, in all probability, solely to the copyists, against whose carelessness the author sought to guard himself by an awful threat.
No timid soul need fear that imprecation in the last chapter of the Revelation: If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life.
Christ in the Psalms" twisted every heathenishimprecation of the Hebrew hymns into language which could be put upon the lips of the dear Lord, and turned the bitterest curses into sweet and gracious benedictions.
No greater imprecation could have been cast at an enemy than that he might not be covered with the earth.
Here is a terrible imprecation against a woman who smites with the Evil Eye: May her hand be thrust in her mouth, And her eyes be burned in the fire!
This is not very sweet language for a gentle lady to use to a little infant boy, but the Druze and Moslem women use this kind of imprecation in many of their nursery songs.
He utters an imprecation and turning swiftly is face to face with Franz Francoise!
He raked up anew the remark of the Church Father Jerome and others, that the Jews had introduced into their book of prayer a formula of imprecationagainst the God of the Christians and his adherents.
With an irritable imprecation on my weakness, I sank down on the topmost step.
After she had gone I tottered to my feet, with an imprecation on my weakness, and I took an amount of stimulant that Dr.
Lauzun uttered a French imprecation under his breath, and danced on the step with impatience, only restrained so far as to hand out the Queen and her two attendants.
The boys sprang up with a howl of imprecationand vengeance, but no one was to be seen, only 'Ho!
By the majority of the British House of Commons it is still implicitly ruled that a certain promise would not necessarily be binding on the consciences of Christian members unless accompanied by the popular imprecation "So help me God.
The "imprecation against the Sadducees" stands twelfth among the collects of the Shemoneh Esreh.
Rabbon Gamliel appealed to the sages, "Is there not a man who knows how to compose an imprecationagainst the Sadducees?
This imprecation was for Laius' death, And thou hast wished me like him.
Under the butt-end blows of the Tyrolese, the Bavarians sank to the ground with a glance of hatred; pierced by the swords of the Bavarians, the Tyrolese fell, with an imprecation on their lips.
Ulrich, and a wild imprecation against Eliza burst from his lips.
Mervyn, with an imprecation on the darkness, adding, 'Go and ring the bell.
The assertory testimony here is the first thing intended; and the oath and imprecation are but as a means to make that testimony or promise valid.
The laying on the hand and kissing the book, is an action directly related to the imprecation, and not to the oath, but only by consequence, as the imprecation is subservient to the oath, as the oath is to the assertion.
As he caught sight of this dismal crag, Monte-Cristo knitted his brows and through his clenched teeth muttered an imprecation upon the tyranny of man.
The peasant abruptly halted, also turned, and a fierce imprecation escaped his lips.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imprecation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
