How To Use Curst In A Sentence
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I've no doubt the two of you have been ill-fortuned enough to've heard that curst song of Brandark's?
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The mighty chief, atheling excellent, unblithe sat, labored in woe for the loss of his thanes, when once had been traced the trail of the fiend, spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow, too long, too loathsome.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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She swung the sword at him, praying she could actually use the curst thing.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Good sooth, it is a day accurst, thy slaughter-day
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Without the will of heaven none is blest, none curst, I do maintain; nor doth the same house for ever tread the path of bliss; for one kind of fortune follows hard upon another; one man it brings to naught from his high estate, another though of no account it crowns with happiness.
The Heracleidae
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Ah, woe for him! whose fortune was e'er so curst as his?
Heracles
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Her curst husband actually had the nerve to laugh.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, and bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; but Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom.
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‘I'll be waking you in four hours,’ he rumbled, ‘so you'd best not lie awake thinking of more verses for your curst song!’
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What began best can't end worst, nor what God once blest prove accurst.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
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It means," answered Julius, covering his face with his hands, "that I am of all living things the most accurst!
Master of His Fate
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“Na,” said the man quietly, “it's no religion, it's curstness,” i.e. crabbedness, insinuating that acerbity of temper, as well as zeal, was occasionally the cause of congregations being multiplied.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
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Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
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Was he the luckiest boy in the whole wide world, he wondered, or was he the most accurst?
Kalooki Nights
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A whorson tisick, a whorson rascally tisick, so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girle, and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one ath's dayes: and I have a rheume in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones, that unlesse a man were curst I cannot tell what to thinke on't.
The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
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It is a God who embodied justice, who had the ‘will to bless those by circumstance accurst’ - in other words, the kind of God dad could believe in, a social God, who helps the downtrodden.
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My deerest Lord, blest to be most accurst, Rich onely to be wretched; thy great Fortunes Are made thy cheefe Afflictions.
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The nation is first, and the plea is accurst That fosters a bias; its claims to obtend.
Canadian Assimilation
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She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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I have heard of that curst man, and though he needs no more curses upon his head, he deserves them.
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Thus, a strange kind of curst necessity Brings down the sterling temper of his soul.
The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author
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Even the bear, who closes this movement of the play by eating the courtier Antigonus, is at the end of a long winter hunger - ‘They are never curst but when they are hungry.
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Who deserts his father's race, seeks the black blood to debase, which thro' his own veins doth chase, he be accurst!
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Being the slave of an eldritch and accurst cult is not grounds for impeachment!
If I can’t have a pony « raincoaster
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II. ii.25 (141,3) Nor curstness grow to the matter] Let not _ill-humour_ be added to the real _subject_ of our difference.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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I do not think any of my people ever looked at their calling in this fashion, but Macready was a very honest man, and that and his "curst" temper (Shakespeare, you know) give me great sympathy for him.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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But alas, we are at the far north end of NJ-and our younger daughter has the thrice curst SATs on Saturday.
Big, Broad, Flexible Religion
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Read it. Poor traitor, spit upon and curst!
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She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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To Henry Legatt Messenger of His Maties Chamber, etc. The lines particularly complained of ran as follows: of all Treasons, mine was most accurst;
A Memoir of Mrs. Behn
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There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships accurst: much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world.
Measure for Measure
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The mighty chief, atheling excellent, unblithe sat, labored in woe for the loss of his thanes, when once had been traced the trail of the fiend, spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow, too long, too loathsome.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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Although his Ride is confined to offstage environs, it is described in living color by the clown Biondello, affording both on- and off-stage audiences a glimpse of Petruchio's future with a curst wife.
