The long, barbed steel goblets were lifted; and to cries and
maledictions against the white whale, the spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss.
And I left him, muttering
maledictions against his evil angel.
Thus "the unconscious" becomes a sort of underground prisoner, living in a dungeon, breaking in at long intervals upon our daylight respectability with dark groans and
maledictions and strange atavistic lusts.
Among other things, the poem makes blunt references to the genitalia of the Ugandan president's late mother and pours
malediction on the first citizen, his wife and family.
The Sona show ended on a bizarre note, with the aging bloated-faced actor Phillip Salvador issuing a
malediction on all those opposed to the President.
Nora discovers a gift that will weigh on her as a
malediction and cause misunderstanding around her.
The narrator observes, "If he had chosen to look back, which he did not, he could have seen the spire of Much Nadderby, and, seeing it, might have uttered a
malediction [my emphasis] on the inhospitable little hotel which, though obviously empty, had refused him a bed" (1).
This riveting preguel to the
Malediction trilogy takes readers back to the world of Trollus.
Et c'est a travers son nouveau roman [beaucoup moins que] Le secret des Girelles [beaucoup plus grand que], paru aux editions ANEP, que Amina Makahli, a partage avec les lecteurs cette histoire pour, comme l'a si bien mentionne dans sa preface, [beaucoup moins que] rompre la chaine de la
malediction et ...
The only access to this town is from Amioun village, hence is it a blessing or a
malediction? Maybe it is a
malediction because it is not open to other towns, making it geographically isolated in terms of lack of participation in development projects with other towns, but it is a blessing because it preserves its rural character in terms of calmness, environment, and uniqueness.
