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To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter to ; but in all my voyagings seldom have I heard a common oath when ; when His "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage.
Part VII: Herman Melville's "; or The Whale"
How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!
Eight reflections of Tennyson's "Ulysses"
We viewers are invited to close the door on the possibility of "Jack and Ennis" and to imprecate the flatland outside Ennis's window.
Conversing Brokeback Mountain's varied spaces and contested desires
Parasexual vulgarizations imprecate confessional airing toward engaging bipartisan satisfying pacts.
Never again
In myth, human psychic traits are transferred into objects: the heart becomes like a bloody stone, cloud speaks, stars stare on humans, and water boils for lamenting of Sivash and sky imprecates Afrasyab.
Myth in divan of Amir Khosrow Dehlawi
Below: My favorite Tevye, Zero Mostel, imprecates the Lord about his wealth.
Sundown: Olmert Asked Bush to Bomb Reactor
His death, with which he actually imprecates the sword Gurthang, "what loyalty do you know, save the hand that wields you?
Master of doom by doom mastered: heroism, fate, and death in the Children of Hurin
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