Which preposition to use with cursing

of Occurrences 515%

One of the curses of the common people is, 'May the moon eat up your brains;' and in China they say of a man who has done any act of egregious folly, 'He was gathering wool in the moon.'

on Occurrences 149%

Curse on my Birth!

with Occurrences 88%

She has the sensitive, artistic temperament, poor girl; and only we who are cursed with it can tell you what its possession implies.

to Occurrences 71%

There are several varieties of the species in this country; the most malignant and treacherous being the Political Viperssnakes in the grassbred from the spawn of the Original Cockatrices, and a curse to the land we live in.

in Occurrences 59%

May he be cursed in life and may the flesh shrivel on his bones and his soul be eternally damned with another candle and fifty gold pieces to the altar of holy Saint Giles" But now hearing Roger groan, the archer paused to admonish him thus: "Croak not, Roger, croak not," quoth he, "think not upon thy vile body pray, man, praypray thyself speechless.

from Occurrences 39%

He glanced aloft, cast a speculative eye on the stevedores trooping across the waist of the ship, and ascended to the quarter-deck where the mate stood leaning over the rail and uttering directed curses from between sweat-beaded lips.

at Occurrences 35%

"Yes, he felt the heat," he said, as he passed the time of day with other men going by with packs, pack-horses, or draught-dogs, cursing at the trail and at the Government that taxed the miners so cruelly and then did nothing for them, not even making a decent highway to the Dominion's source of revenue.

for Occurrences 29%

But to see how Nell cursed for having so few people in the pit, was pretty.

against Occurrences 15%

And as I plodded home on foot, I thought it was all gammon, To build a temple to the LORD Of curses against Mammon.

of Occurrences 10%

This cursing of the guilty people has no parallel in modern history.

under Occurrences 9%

" And outside, a young fellow in the Sunday suit of a workingman was walking up and down, staring at the lighted windows, catching a glimpse now and again of one girl or another, and cursing under his breath when he saw Johnnie Consadine.

Into Occurrences 8%

But evil is only good perverted, And Lucifer, the Bearer of Light, But an angel fallen and deserted, Thrust from his Father's house with a curse Into the black and endless night.

through Occurrences 7%

The second lady who will be cursed through all posterity in her memory, is Sophia, the mother of the present usurper of Hungaryshe who had the ambitious dream to raise the power of a child upon the ruins of liberty, and on the neck of prostrate nations.

by Occurrences 6%

(But Ina always took off the curse by calling it her "si-esta," long i.)

like Occurrences 5%

At the moment I joined my company, General Braddock rode up, cursing like a madman, and spurred his horse among the men.

beneath Occurrences 4%

So absolute was the submergence of that ardent adventurer who, overnight, had lain awake for hours, a dictograph receiver glued to his ear, eavesdropping upon the traffic of those malevolent intelligences assembled in Prince Victor's study, and alternately chuckling and cursing beneath his breath, aflame with indignation and chilled by inklings of atrocities unspeakable abrew!

over Occurrences 4%

Let it be enough for your lofty demands on poor humanity, that I take my loss like a man, with a whistle and a laugh, instead of howling and cursing over it like a baboon.

after Occurrences 4%

We will sup sorrow for this day's work where he will put curses after us.

about Occurrences 3%

To descend again, even were it from the beatific vision itself, to this disordered earth, to work a littleand, alas how little- -at lessening the sum of human ignorance, human vice, human miseryeven as their Lord and Saviour stooped from the throne of the universe, and from the bosom of the Father, to toil and die for such as curse about the streets outside.

between Occurrences 2%

"He said the king's sister, Princess Mary, when but ten married William, Prince of Orange, and" "And what?" said Cedric, leaning forward his hand upon his sword, a curse between his white teeth and a line of light from between his half-closed lids like the flashing of a two-edged sword.

behind Occurrences 2%

The beauty straightway vanished; they read commandments, all-excluding mountainous duty; an obligation, a sadness, as of piled mountains, fell on them, and life became ghastly, joyless, a pilgrim's progress, a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us; with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.

before Occurrences 2%

cursed before the flood!'

as Occurrences 2%

* * Since men like beasts each other's prey were made, Since trade began, and priesthood grew a trade, Since realms were form'd, none sure so cursed as those That madly their own happiness oppose; There Heaven itself and god-like kings, in vain Shower down the manna of a gentle reign; While pamper'd crowds to mad sedition run, And monarchs by indulgence are undone.

along Occurrences 2%

Bones of men buried in the house where he dwelt and sheets of lead containing certain curses along with his name were found while he yet breathed.

in Occurrences 2%

I suppose that some aged Moslem chieftain sat one day at the opening of his tent and, brooding with black brows and cursing in his black beard over wine as the symbol of Christianity, racked his brains for some word ugly enough to express his racial and religious antipathy, and suddenly spat out the horrible word "alcohol."

Which preposition to use with  cursing