1 Five minutes afterwards the piano resounded to the touch of Mademoiselle d'Armilly's fingers, and Mademoiselle Danglars was singing Brabantio's malediction on Desdemona.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter. 2 He searched about in his mind for an adequate malediction for the indefinite cause, the thing upon which men turn the words of final blame.
3 Thou didst recall with malediction.
4 Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of Saint-Merry.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS 5 But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.