Deep and bitter were the imprecationsof many against the power-loom; for it is difficult for any man to see good in that which dashes away his hard-earned morsel from the mouths of his family, and leaves them calling in vain for food.
Before he gained his balance, the creature cried out and ran to the road but rather than begin immediate howls of imprecations it whined pitifully.
Furthermore, he could not understand why, when she knew the reactions that getting drunk and shouting her invective as intense as imprecations would cause, that she continually insulted him.
Then followed wild imprecations on the fate that had doomed him to be marooned on that desolate island, while just beyond his reach were riches almost beyond the dreams of avarice.
For the living, when they are honoured by us, join in our prayers, and when they are dishonoured, they utter imprecations against us; but lifeless objects do neither.
But where there would be a premium on perjury, oaths and imprecationsshould be prohibited as irrelevant, like appeals to feeling.
To show the wickedness and extreme folly of swearing, he gives the words and imprecations then commonly in use; but which, happily for us, we never hear, except among the most degraded classes of society.
Were God to answer their imprecations they would be miserable beyond conception.
The reply seemed to satisfy the priest; and, contrary to expectations, it did not in the least increase the imprecations of the passengers.
Thus stimulated, he renewed hisimprecations against the Giaour, and bestowed upon Mahomet some soothing expressions.
The books on Greek games and on imprecations were almost certainly composed in Greek.
This hope of vengeance, it must be avowed, equally animated us all; and we poured out a thousand imprecations against those who had left us a prey to so much misery and danger.
Perhaps these very men a few hours before, were impiously invoking their own destruction, or venting imprecationsupon their fellow beings!
Not being able to discover me, the Greek captain was believed; and, after a thousand imprecations upon my soul, the cadi and his people departed.
I bore the offspring of my guilt in solitary anguish, afterwards loaded with reproaches when I needed comfort and consolation, and stunned with imprecations when I required soothing and repose.
I recollect so well the Emir Bescheer, at Bteddeen, bestowing endless imprecations on them.
In this advantageous position, his rear and flanks protected, he kept off all who attacked him, replying with laugh and jeer to the furious oaths and imprecations of his baffled antagonists.
The same simplicity was seen in all other things; and we read in Plutarch of a temple in Thebes, which had one of its pillars inscribed with imprecations against that king who first introduced profusion and luxury into Egypt.
Scipio showed him immediately to the deserters, who, transported with rage and fury at the sight, vented millions of imprecations against him, and set fire to the temple.
It is that which gives sanction to their oaths; and to it by imprecations is referred the punishment of such crimes and enormities as escape the knowledge and power of men.
Presently--when the liquor had restored his courage and begun to fetch the color to his pallid face--he got his staff in his fist and stumbled off in a high bluster, muttering gross imprecations as he went.
These imprecations were of a nature to strike the superstitious minds of the Romans.
But, suspecting the integrity of his design, they sailed for Lacca Deva islands, uttering dreadful imprecations against the captain.
The lamp was thrown over, and amid yells and imprecations the battle rolled in the darkness from corner to corner.
When he found himself in the open country, he hurled forth imprecations against the world and fate, tore his hair, curst his stars and his youth, and then rusht almost unconsciously onward.
Crescentia and of their awful meeting again, until anger and rage and imprecations and loathing and curses raved like a stormy sea around the criminal, and threatened to annihilate him, to tear him to pieces in the madness of their fury.
For the first time, Legendre, a butcher of Paris, appeared at the bar of the Assembly, where he vociferated in oratorical strain the imprecations of the people against the enemies of the nation and crowned traitors.
Cries of fury, oaths, imprecationsaccompanied the blows of the axe.
The constitutional deputies ran about in indignation, uttering imprecations against Pétion and the Gironde.
Paris was in consternation at this news; the Assembly greatly troubled, the Girondists trembled, the Jacobins were vociferous in their imprecations against the traitors.
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