Sentence examples for king curses from inspiring English sources

During a symbolic storm, the ageing king curses the weather and his daughters, and laments his frailty.

In the showdown between Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, the king curses his court as "ce vaste desert d'hommes" conjuring up the loneliness of a monarch in a "desert" devoid of human companionship.

The story of Ila, a king cursed by Shiva and Parvati to be a man one month and a woman the next, appears in several traditional Hindu texts.

That, too, was a moment echoing of prophecy - the words almost straight out of the biblical story of the seer, Balaam, engaged by a different Transjordanian king to curse Israel, finding himself unable to do so, and saying instead, "May I die the death of the upright, and may my end be as his".

The Mahabharata narrates that Vashishtha meets Kalmashapada at the end of the 12-year period and frees the king of the curse.

Two non-player characters journey with the protagonists: Trode, the titular cursed king who rules over Trodain but was transformed into a toad-like creature by Dhoulmagus; and Medea, Trode's daughter, who is the same age as the Hero.

In turn, the sage curses the king to wander the forest for 16 years.

The sage feels insulted seeing the taboo offering, and curses the king to be a rakshasa.

Many Hindu scriptures say that she was seduced by Indra (the king of the gods), cursed by her husband for infidelity, and liberated from the curse by Rama (an avatar of the god Vishnu).

9 P.M. (Discovery) EGYPT UNTOLD: THE CURSE OF KING TUT -- Tutankhamen died young.

The charges against him — cursing the king, gathering illegally, inciting against the Constitution and the government — are pending.