Sentence examples for curses against from inspiring English sources

Babylonian records often end with elaborate curses against anyone who would seek to alter them.

Pesky says he does not believe in any curses against his team.

Nevertheless, the Assyrian nobles, priests, and city leaders were sworn to just such an adjustment of the royal line; even the vassal princes had to take very detailed oaths of allegiance to Ashurbanipal, with many curses against perjurers.

But before anybody raises a cudgel and intones ancient curses against "postmodern trickery" and "irony" one more boring time, it's good to recall that artistic approaches like this have been around a while.

The collection includes material as varied as curses against book thieves, early love ballads, hearty drinking songs and a hand-drawn ground plan for a medieval monastery, drafted around A.D. 820, the only such document of its kind.

Various stories link Bahuchara to castration or other changes in physical sexual characteristics, sometimes as the result of her aiming curses against men.

"People talk about the Twins curse against the Yankees, but they battled.

LIKE a seer of antiquity, Osama bin Laden has returned from the wilderness to cast his curse against the evildoers.

The caption was "grass-mud-horse in the center" — a homonym in Chinese for a vulgar curse against the Communist Party's central leadership.

Then, "I was a man of arms, and then a corded friar, thinking, so girt, to make amends; and indeed my thought had come true, but for the Great Priest," here is the curse against Boniface, "may ill befall him!

It had held a contest in which "ultimate Yankee fans" competed for a chance to visit the Babe's grave and ask him to "reverse the reverse curse" against the Yankees (which, in plain English, would translate as "restore the curse against the Boston Red Sox").