1 'As weak as water,' replied Mr. Sikes, with an imprecation on his eyes and limbs.
2 The man got no further, for Sikes with a hideous imprecation overthrew the table, and tearing the hat from him, burst out of the house.
3 While the reddleman was grasping the stakes Wildeve seized the dice and hurled them, box and all, into the darkness, uttering a fearful imprecation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 4 He was happy to combine in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia and England.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 5 The artifice was answered by a hundred voices raised in imprecations; and the whole of the excited multitude broke from their order, and spread themselves about the place in wild confusion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 6 From the heaving tangle issued exhortations, commands, imprecations.
7 His body vibrated from the weight and force of his imprecations.
8 Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise.
9 Hour after hour he considered her wants; he thought of her presence there with a sort of gratitude, and, while uttering imprecations on the cause of her unhappiness, in some measure blessed the result.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 10 Every blow was accompanied with terrible imprecations.
11 There exist no imprecations she did not pour out against you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 12 As to his voice, prayers, sobs, and imprecations had changed it so that at times it was of a singularly penetrating sweetness, and at others rough and almost hoarse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 13 He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.
14 The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.