Use curse in a sentence
Sentences starting with curse
- Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church? [5]
- Curse it all, must I do everything myself? [11]
- Curse her baptism--curse it, curse it! [11]
- Curse you, why don't you go? [11]
- Curse the endless delays! [5]
- Curse the mosquitoes! [9]
- Curse them all! [11]
- Curse you! [11]
- Curse them! [11]
Sentences ending with curse
- But Jean Jacques would, no doubt, send it after her with his curse. [11]
- There was times when he ranted about like a crazy man, but mostly he was always sittin' an' starin' with eyes that made a man curse. [13]
- Nitetis looked up uneasily into his indignant face, and stammered in blind obedience, 'I curse. [10]
- Then, when the Two Strange People had been struck with panic, the Syrian donkey- market, and the five hundred feddans of American cotton, and the new schools would be his for a song--or a curse. [11]
- When Orion came to see her she would stroke his waving hair and, as she desired not to wound him and make him even more unhappy than he must be already, she neither blamed nor admonished him, and never reminded him of his father's curse. [10]
- When I beheld the first Persians scale the walls of Sardis, I execrated myself and the gods, life appeared odious to me, existence a curse. [10]
- He used to shovel them into his back yard and curse. [5]
- Dupont dropped his paddle with a curse. [11]
- My family's been my curse. [11]
- You must not misunderstand me; but it would be horrible to me to believe that you, who are so beautiful, and as white as a lily, have any part in the hideous curse. [10]
Short sentences using curse
- I curse out loud. [11]
Sentences containing curse two or more times
- He is dead now--he threw himself into the river this summer, with a curse on his lips--I am afraid--a curse against you. [9]
- And you curse me--you dare to curse me! [11]
More example sentences with the word curse in them
- It is neither you nor Ulrich, who drives me hence, but the mysterious ancient curse, that pursues my people when they seek to rest; it is, it is. [10]
- He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
- He said he would live to be avenged; said he would make our lives a curse to us. [5]
- They whisper flattering words in my ear; they curse me when my back is turned. [10]
- With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
- Well--worship me--altogether--and that will curse him, as he has killed me. [11]
- Apollodorus forced a whole talent of the yellow curse upon me for painting his men's room. [10]
- Am not I, who brought upon you your father's curse, bound indeed to help you to free yourself from the burden of it? [10]
- Happiness abandons those who are burdened by a father's curse, and she certainly did not find it. [10]
- There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom. [5]
- The curse with which the patriarch had threatened him recurred to his mind; he could have fancied that the hot, stuffy, incense-laden air of the church was full of flapping daws and hideous bats. [10]
- And then you were properly buried, and not by me either, nor at my cost, curse you again. [11]
- With a curse Wassef felt in his vest for his purse, and called to the kavass--the being more dreaded in Egypt than the plague. [11]
- What troubled him was only the consciousness that he had given her and innocent little Taus every reason to curse their meeting. [10]
- I guess there was a curse on that fortune. [4]
- You know you want to.--I do, and will curse the --- ------ thieving country as long as I live. [5]
- If he is visited by infirmity--only look at me!--how much misery I have suffered from this curse, terrible enough in itself, and tainting everything with the bitterness of wormwood! [10]
- Though he fought under the flag of freedom, the curse of the expatriated was upon his head. [9]
- If this be Truth, man or woman who beholds her can but curse the day he or she was born. [14]
- He carried my trespass to his betters; I was stubborn; wherefore, presently upon my head and upon all heads that were dear to me, fell the curse of Rome. [5]
- Not a lip trembled nor an eye faltered when a backwoodsman, his memory aflame at sight of the pitiful white scalps on their belts, thrust through the crowd to curse them. [9]
- I have had to withstand the attack of a madman, and hear a horrible curse from his lips. [10]
- Then fell she to swear and tear, to curse and damn, casting the Ruffs under feet, and wishing that the Devil might take her when she wear any of those Neckerchers again. [4]
- No, I want to stand up before it and curse it and foam at the mouth, or take a club and pound it to rags and pulp. [5]
- Thus poison turns to healing, and a curse to a blessing. [10]
- For a man to curse his baptism was a wicked thing; but the other oath was not fit for human ears, and horror held the crowd moveless for a moment. [11]
- We sat down tired and perspiring, and hired a couple of Chinamen to curse those people who had beguiled us. [5]
- I said Manana-- this Manana is the curse of Mexico. [11]
- But even after they shall have acquired this curse it will still be a good country to go to for a vacation, for there are charming little islets scattered about the inclosed sea where one could live secure from interruption. [5]
- So I imagine the vengeance, the curse which calls down ruin upon the head of a foe. [10]
- This very day the unworthy son of the great Rameses had covered his face and trembled like a timid fawn at the bare mention of the sorcerer's name, and to-morrow he might curse him and pronounce a death sentence upon him. [10]
- Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. [5]
- You are on the road where every curse is turned to blessing. [10]
- If I get the other 25 feet in the Johnson ex., I shan't care a d---n. I'll be willing to curse awhile and wait. [5]
- Oldring shot through the heart, had fought and forced back death, not for a moment in which to shoot or curse, but to whisper strange words. [13]
- They curse in the heart when the whole world go wrong for them; no one hears. [11]
- Surely it was the Egyptians whom Moses' curse had robbed of thousands of beloved lives, while the Hebrews had escaped their revenge by flight. [10]
- One King, holding the curse in light estimation, made the attempt, but was stricken sorely for his presumption. [5]
- Can it be that the curse is passing away, and my daughter is to be restored to me,--such as her mother would have had her,--such as her mother was? [6]
- I and friends that lie with me founded and secured the prosperity of this fine city, and the stately bantling of our loves leaves us to rot in a dilapidated cemetery which neighbors curse and strangers scoff at. [5]
- Marcel said, 'Suppose that he should curse me for it? [11]
- With a curse that echoed in the crags, he threw up his arms and fell forward, writhing, on the turf. [9]
- It was undoubtedly that curse which had led him to look into his soul and to start on this new path. [10]
- Columbus let the Spaniards into the New World; and their civilization has uniformly been a curse to it. [4]
- They are the souls of the thousands whom grim death has snatched away, laden with the curse of the Hebrew, unburied, unshielded from corruption, to descend the rounds of the ladder leading to the eternal world. [10]
- And he did so as though he were narrating the death of a heroine, but he added, in a tone of disapproval: "Unhappily, the misguided woman died with a curse on you, great Caesar, on her treasonable lips. [10]
- For a moment she stood thus silent, then let her arms fall, and cried to the tribunes: "My curse be upon you if you forget what you owe to yourselves, to the Roman Empire, and to your dying friend. [10]
- Kuni replied that she had long mourned her error most deeply, and then began to whisper to Tetzel how she had been induced to curse a fellow-mortal. [10]
- Over all was self-infatuation, the bane of princes, the curse of greatness, the source of wide injustice. [11]
- With that she seized the lance in her breast with both hands, and with her last breath murmured, 'He desired to see the living woman--bring him my body, and my curse with it! [10]
- And when I see a whole silent, solemn drawing-room full of idiots sitting with their hands on each other's foreheads "communing," I tug the white hairs from my head and curse till my asthma brings me the blessed relief of suffocation. [5]
- And how I repent me, that there have been times when I lost faith and said, the blessing he stored up for us a tedious generation ago was but a long-drawn curse, a blight upon us all. [5]
- Not the most reckless of criminals could mock at the curse hurled at him by a beloved father in his last moments. [10]
- Psamtik watched him, quivering with excitement, sprang towards the veranda, but before his lips could utter the curse which his heart had prepared, he sank powerless on to the ground. [10]
- No excommunication, no punishment, can make my present suffering harder to bear, but if you harm the doctor, I shall curse the hour I invited you to cross my threshold. [10]
- He was a Protestant, and the curse on his baptism uttered by Pomfrette was not so heinous in his sight. [11]
- If, as seems probable, the anthropological section of society manages to get round the curse that protects the bones of Shakespeare, I should like to see the dome which rounded itself over his imperial brain. [6]
- They talked, an' presently at somethin' Lassiter said the rustler bawled out a curse, an' then he jest fell up against the bar, an' sagged there. [13]
- The opportunity thus presented itself of turning into a blessing the primeval curse of tilling the soil, in this instance not with a hoe, but with a pen. [4]
- But Francis preferred poverty and contempt, nay, even his father's curse and the reproach of ingratitude, receiving in exchange possessions of a nobler nature and more lasting character. [10]
- In the first place, we begin to believe in their luck, or fate, or whatever we choose to call it, and to curse our own. [9]
- If she followed Philostratus's advice--if she acceded to Caracalla's wishes--Diodoros would have every right to condemn and curse her. [10]
- After it, the orb between the horns of Astarte will become smaller; but when it fulls and wanes again, if you keep your promise and return, then, though they may curse and condemn me, I will come to your studio and grant what you ask. [10]
- He was at once the curse and the pride of the regiment. [11]
- He's the curse of this city. [11]
- And the sum of the doctrine contained in these words is this: Bless those that curse you, pray for your enemies and repent for those who persecute you, for 'if ye love them that love you what thank have ye? [10]
- Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land? [5]
- On the steps of the church stood a stranger, a Burgundian priest, who was telling the people new which made them weep, and rave, and rage, and curse, by turns. [5]
- She upbraids me occasionally for giving her only the bright side of my affairs (but unfortunately for her she has to put up with it, for I know that troubles that I curse awhile and forget, would disturb her slumbers for some time. [5]
- Only you must not curse him; for my father became your foe through love for me. [10]
- The leprosy does not come of sins which they committed, but of sins committed by their ancestors, who escaped the curse of leprosy! [5]
- She no longer needed to fear the horrible curse which she had called down upon the little one, and once more thought of Lienhard with pleasure. [10]
- Thus it was my part, though; the younger, to give her courage, notwithstanding the awful curse haunted me likewise, and rang in my ears even when at last I made my way through the dark streets, followed by the serving-man, to do Ann's bidding. [10]
- Take it--and take my curse with it to blister your heart a hundred years--and may you live so long! [5]
- But there were mutterings, and from the sidewalk he heard a man curse him. [9]
- Then she continued more excitedly: "But I tell you, the curse is unjust, for a better man never lived than my grandfather was. [10]
- Condemn me, desert me, curse me, but call me once more 'my mother. [10]
- She ran at Macavoy and spat in his face, and called down such a curse on him as, whoever hears, be he one that's cursed or any other, shudders at till he dies. [11]
- It was there,"--she looked again at the place where the Thing had been--"and your curse drove it away. [11]
- He would have liked to leave the banqueting hall at once with a swingeing curse. [10]
- Now in your last hour bless those who begot you, and curse those who have robbed you of your parents, your crown and your life. [10]
- I do not know, said my informant, that the curse of the Lady Superior had anything to do with the drought, but many think it had; and those are the facts. [4]
- But that is just the marrow of the matter; it is from that very curse that I mean to save her. [10]
- I should curse it to damnation if I was living on it. [11]
- It is that it removes the traditional curse from that helpless infant lying in its mother's arms. [6]
- And many found it in their hearts to curse Clark and that government for which he fought. [9]
- Now the curse is on the whole country; the dollar is the measure of every value, the stamp of every success. [8]
- Whether all this is a blessing or a curse, like that one which made Pharaoh and all his household run to their toilet-tables, is a question about which opinions might differ. [6]
- It was the impotent rebellion against the first curse, that man in his punishment should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow--which he might do with joy--while the woman must work out her ordained sentence "in sorrow all the days of her life. [11]
- He almost thinks I'm a curse. [11]
- You tell her how she will be ashame', and a curse will fall on her. [11]
- And if he hit that dime only on the edge he would set down and cry--and curse. [5]
- By some miracle his mother had not yet told the prelate of his father's curse, in spite of the anguish of her aching heart; and what a weapon would not that have been in Benjamin's hand. [10]
- He will set his heel on your head when he knows you--the curse of this city--for the adder that you are! [10]
- He said to himself that the curse of Ham was upon him. [5]
- John Canty delivered himself of a furious curse and commanded a retreat; but it was too late. [5]
- War was to him, as to so many of the noble youth who went forth, only organized barbarism, hateful but for the sacred cause which alone redeemed it from the curse that blasted the first murderer. [6]
- Kuni summoned up her courage and asked whether they would also possess the power to remove a curse. [10]
- Out of my heart of hearts I curse him. [5]
- With a curse, he picked himself up, fumbling in his pocket. [9]
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