40 Metaphors for cursed

Cursed be the moment, and cursed be I in that moment, in which thou wouldst be forgotten by me!

Use thine invincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds, and then he that seeks to break your union a cleaving curse be his inheritance to all generations!"

The curse of heaven that's due to reprobates Descends upon my brothers and my children, And I am parent to itay, I am parent to it.

"Cursed be the day," he exclaims, in his lonely chamber, "on which I was born!

'All I'm hopin' is that the poor child won't come to any harm between them; but isn't she a fearful terrible woman, and may the curse of the Son of God be on her for stealin' away a poor child the like of that!'

Cursed is the Fate of unhappy Women!

Of youth and beauty still you are the foe: The curse of Rosamond rests on your head, Fair Rose confounded by your cank'rous hate, O, that she were not as to me she is, A mother, whom by nature I must love, Then I would tell her she were too-too base To dote thus on a banish'd careless groom: Then should I tell her that she were too fond To trust fair Marian to an exile's hand.

No loving welcome from the lips of a prayerful parent awaited this poor little innocent child; instead, curses were his portion, and, by the order of his mother, he was cast aside in a pile of rubbish to die.

51. 'The curse of writing is an endless itch.

The curse which he foretold was the natural consequence of the sins of the nation.

Curses and several shots were the reply.

Curses were his reward, and men's abhorrence Avenged th' unnatural and revolting deed.

what a curse is a tender conscience!

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

They claim supernatural powers to confer good and invoke evil, and the curse of a fakir is the last misfortune that an honest Hindu cares to bring upon himself, for it means a failure of his harvests, the death of his cattle by disease, sickness in his family and bad luck in everything that he undertakes.

A curse upon her, and upon her historiographer!'The man is really a villain, an execrable one.'

Many a boy's greatest curse has been his father's fortune.

If curses had been a marketable article, Whitmarsh would have taken out his patent and made his fortune by inventing of them, new and ingenious.

It is entitled: Cursed is the ground for thy sake.

But her greatest curse of all is the white man's cupidity, tearing asunder the tenderest ties of human nature, and plunging villages and families into mourning and despair.

There is a curse on the earth; such a curse as is expressed, I believe, in the old Hebrew text, where the word "adamah" (correctly translated in our version "the ground") signifies, as I am told, not this planet; but simply the soil from whence we get our food; such a curse as certainly is expressed by the Septuagint and the Vulgate versions: "Cursed is the earth" [Greek]; "in opere tuo," as the Vulgate has it"in thy works.

Her curse has been the rivalry of two, or rather three native dynasties, the Karageorgevitch, the Obrenovitch and the Petrovitch; and this rivalry has borne fruit in three dastardly political crimesthe murder of the heroic Black George in 1817, by order of his rival Milosh Obrenovitch; of Prince Michael, Serbia's wisest ruler, by the adherents of George's son; and finally of King Alexander and his wife in June 1903.

The curse of the Nonconformists is their universal refinement.

The curse of most biographies is the letters; not many people can write good letters, and yet it becomes a sacred duty to pad a Life out with dull and stodgy documents; it is all so utterly inartistic and decorous and stupid.

In the vehemence of his vexation, he overlooked the necessary precaution, and cried out, "Cursed be this rival, this man who has the presumption to imagine he can compete with me!" Mr. Krause shuddered at the sound of this voice, which seemed to him as it were the echo of his own unspoken thoughts, but he mastered his alarm, and cried aloud, "Did any one speak?"

40 Metaphors for  cursed