It had claimed "several members of the public" were pressed around the Downing Street gate and "visibly shocked" by Mr Mitchell's imprecations.
The most notable, Einosuke Moriyama, served as the chief translator in Japan's negotiations with Perry, as well as interpreter to America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris.In the spring of 1849 the American warship Preble arrived in Nagasaki, its commander, James Glynn, ignoring the imprecations from assorted Japanese craft to "go away, go away".
His response to Edwards's imprecations that he make poverty a central part of his agenda was shallow, perfunctory, pat.
If the person next to you tells you to shut up, Wernicke's area (left-hand side) will process his imprecations.
In 1886 he published a new volume containing "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," consisting mainly of imprecations against modern decadence and liberalism and a retraction of the earlier poem's belief in inevitable human progress.
Pinkerton throws him out, and the Bonze leads the guests off, shouting imprecations at the weeping bride.
Such imprecations are also standard in Phrygian sepulchral epigraphs.
Imprecations against violation were common, as were buried curse tablets in Latin and in Oscan (the defixiones).
Reaney's later publications include The Box Social, and Other Stories (1996), which collects Reaney's early short stories, and the volumes of poetry Imprecations: The Art of Swearing (1984), Performance (1990), and Souwesto Home (2005).
Las imprecaciones (1955; "Imprecations"), a collection of poems, won him literary honours in Peru in 1956.
The noisy old witch, like the screech-owl after which she was named in Latin, Strix, shrieks imprecations from her gaping maw, while beautiful Sirens open their mouths in honeyed songs to lure men to their destruction.
