| We find imprecations against people who break laws, defile a sanctuary, commit perjury, or pollute a grave, amongst other things. |
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| But a lot of criminals also live in poverty, and I don't hear anyone screaming Shavian imprecations about that. |
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| Two Gypsies were shrieking Romany imprecations at each other, struggling for possession of a huge crystal ball. |
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| Croft galloped past the cart, the farmer's imprecations following him down the road. |
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| Screaming imprecations and struggling wildly, she had to be held down by several guards while I cut the splint off her arm. |
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| I can imagine the flood of phone calls to the local association and hear the muttered curses and imprecations of massed wheelers and dealers. |
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| He is, at this moment, hunched over his unstolen cellphone in tears, begging, pleading, mumbling imprecations for me to call him and relieve his torment. |
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| There is even no swearing, although it is rumoured that the gentle Ent-like giant Paul has on occasion been known to utter imprecations. |
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| On the column, besides the laws, an oath was engraved, well so terrible imprecations against those who disobey. |
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| His response to Edwards's imprecations that he make poverty a central part of his agenda was shallow, perfunctory, pat. |
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| Pinkerton throws him out, and the Bonze leads the guests off, shouting imprecations at the weeping bride. |
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| From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead. |
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| Such imprecations are also standard in Phrygian sepulchral epigraphs. |
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| There are two women who sit on their stoop here, smoking and muttering dark imprecations like the Graeae missing a sister. |
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| The practice of omitting from prayer certain imprecations to be found in the Psalms which is current since the liturgical reform after Vatican II, conforms to this criterion. |
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| They yelled imprecations at Michel and they threw rocks at our gate. |
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