It was piteous to hear the cries the two good ladies raised, how they beat their breasts and poured out fresh maledictions on those accursed books of chivalry; all which was renewed when they saw Don Quixote coming in at the gate.
On this the pair once more lifted up their voices and renewed their maledictions upon the books of chivalry, and implored heaven to plunge the authors of such lies and nonsense into the midst of the bottomless pit.
If the United States had perished, there would not have been maledictionsdeep enough for those who had committed such a crime.
Men who have no cares on their minds may laugh and be gay, but for the Vicar of Christ does it not seem to imply that he attaches no weight to the maledictions that he throws about so liberally?
He might as well take his stand on the brink of the great cataract, and think by the force of prayers or maledictions to stop the flowing of the mighty waters.
Pulatki; then he clutched his hair in both hands and raved maledictions on the absent Flossy.
Senor Albaceda lifted his head from the hatch and invited the maledictions of innumerable Holy Men upon the weather.
Absalaam, calling down innumerable maledictionsupon the ancestry of all jungle pigs, galloped a tent pony between the boar and his refuge.
A Goumier would address fervent maledictions to the memory of the female ancestors of a stumbling horse; curt conferences took place at long intervals between Perinaud and the native officer.
Even in the tomb you might justly call down maledictions on the head of the murderer who of his own will and choice would deprive you of life.
And then the crowd applauded and poured outmaledictions upon the name.
A hundred thousand bans and maledictions fall upon Mercury and Haas, the architect, who sent for me to look at it!
From time to time he stopped to watch the gathering snow on the high windows, and I was warming myself in the chimney corner, bewailing my dead hounds, and bestowing maledictions on all the wild boars that infest the Schwartzwald.
He carried with him the maledictions of the public.
Maine to obtain what he wished; but always with the maledictions of the public.
How great would have been their desolation--what maledictions would they have poured on those who reduced him to such a state!
While, however, he was making Europe ring with his maledictions against her, for violating the neutrality of Denmark, he was devising schemes and giving positive orders for falling upon Portugal in a time of peace.
She was profuse in maledictions of bad weather, which she held up to scorn as that dog of a weather.
To prove the charge of murder, it was thought sufficient to attest that the sick person had declared his belief that he owed his approaching death to the maledictions of the prisoner.
Maledictions on you, you sit here, well fed, and cry there is no time!
Nevertheless, their hilarity was undiminished, and the rafters rang with song and laugh, and echoed also maledictions upon a supine Government, and on the rapacious Rhine lords.
The priests marched near the reliquaries, either moaning with grief, or frantically ejaculating maledictions on the invaders and their seconders, the revolted serfs.
A small group of priests were upon their knees in the basilica, imploring, amid moans, the assistance of heaven and invoking all manner of maledictions upon the heads of the Northmans.
Gallegher gave an hysterical little gasp of relief as he trotted away from the two policemen, and poured bitter maledictionson their heads for two meddling fools as he went.
Balaam having been struck with amazement at the sight of Israel's encampment, the intended maledictions were changed on his lips into blessings.
Such were the motives for which the Greeks repulsed the Franks, their natural allies, loaded them with anathemas, and invoked the maledictions of Heaven upon their own city.
On his return, he heard only themaledictions of the people and the threats of his enemies.
Her very maledictionsdrove him to his new leader Christ.
Already he was secretly repenting that he had cursed him; and he would have recalled his maledictions if he could have done so without raising the ire of his wife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maledictions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
