maledictory

And there is the chaos of the squatter protests in Tompkins Square Park, maledictory punks squared off against culturally retrograde cops; blood flows.

The Self and Others William Meyers 2011

Nor did he miss the icy rigidity of Canon Meirion's face at the sight, or the deliberation with which Heledd, well aware of the same maledictory stare, forbore from freeing herself immediately, and said a smiling word in Bledri's ear, which might as well have been a curse as a compliment, though there was no doubt how her father interpreted it.

His Disposition 2010

But the words “in sorrow and in pain…” are part of the same utterance as “By the sweat of thy brow…” and therefore these words must also be prophetic and not maledictory – it is the fruits of sin, human avarice and greed which impose greater than necessary subsistence work upon man.

Laborem Exercens: A Distributist Response 2008

After that, the performer instantly departs with maledictory expressions, and is never heard of more.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

These pantaloons were made of a goat's skin; the long white wool, inches in length, left on and hanging down below the knees of the man, gave him a Pan-like look, and with the word tombola, suggested the lines of that good old song -- save the maledictory part of it:

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various

In the following maledictory address from Ph. Fletcher's 2nd eclogue, st.

Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 Various

It is remarkable for the maledictory inscription engraved on its base: QUICUNQUE HUNC CALICEM INVADIAVERIT

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Lena's maledictory epistle had added brimstone to the fire.

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887

He invaded the turmoil and tumble of the down-town streets and learned to breathe maledictory defiance at the police who occasionally used to climb up, drag him from his perch and beat him.

Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane 1885

And with one more longing, lingering look at the scenes which he had quitted for a lot like that of the Duke of Buckingham's dog, upon whom his master pronounced the maledictory wish that “he were married and lived in the country,” this characteristic letter concludes:

Sterne Traill, H D 1882