The story goes that around the turn of the century, Tom cursed the fact that every time he drilled for water for his livestock, up came oil, too. |
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He cursed to himself, and taking up the manual controls, he fired at one of the fighters with his secondary lasers. |
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During the rest of the film he tries to work out who could have cursed him and visits two marabouts to find a cure. |
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Beattie stripped him of all his assumed dignity, and having laid his back bare, scourged him till he smarted keenly, and cursed again. |
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Standing up quickly, she banged her head against the top shelf in the cupboard and cursed. |
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I cursed her as I searched through the kitchen cupboards for something to eat. |
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Yet Weil thought so poorly of her achievements she once identified herself with the barren fig tree Jesus cursed because it bore no fruit. |
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And as usual, dear reader, I was cursed with the ability to remember every sordid detail despite being three sheets to the wind. |
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A survey by the women's federation covering 384 families found that around 250 wives were being menaced, insulted or cursed by their husbands. |
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One of the men shook his fist and cursed at him, threatening to cut his throat if he did not leave. |
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She is embarrassed by everything and accordingly cursed in her ownership of Theo, a tricky little shih-tzu. |
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As an excuse, it did little to explain why England seem cursed never to win a penalty shoot-out. |
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Wrapping her arms about her, Jenni cursed her choice of a skirt and short sleeves. |
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Wincing as the tiny thorns bit into his arms, he cursed his eternal lack of foresight and short sleeves. |
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Their cursed digital cameras flared out those blinding blue and green lights throughout the concert. |
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Once Adam disobeyed God, however, we became a fallen and sinful race living in a cursed world. |
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I skidded, slipped, cursed, crashed, and generally regressed one full level in ability. |
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I looked up at the structure that had been the instrument of our undoing and cursed it. |
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I'd been cursed with more than one day of detention, of course, but Josh hadn't been there on my second day. |
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He cursed as the ball bounced off the club and rolled into the church car park. |
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He is a high school football player cursed with an unpronounceable and unspellable name. |
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They are cursed to the tenth generation and should be branded with a mark before their long and painful deaths. |
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Joss nibbled on her bottom lip, staring ahead as she mentally cursed the stupid L.A. traffic. |
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Diane was yelling again, spittle flying from her mouth as she cursed him to endure the most painful death imaginable. |
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Most of that time was spent being stuck in traffic while the cabbie cursed about the other drivers. |
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Viro cursed and oath and grabbed at the man's cheek and chest, but he had passed into oblivion. |
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For those cursed with dialup, you probably know what the modem handshake sounds like, with the hissing and screaming before it is connected. |
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Bash cursed in pain but didn't offer any more resistance as Speedy led him the rest of the way downstairs to the entrance. |
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The old guard, some of whom I cursed at the time, are a different breed from those who are taking their place. |
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Paris silently cursed the heavy smoke that had blocked her highly developed olfactory senses. |
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They probably did, as they cursed the puddles and horse dung and dodged the horse-drawn carriages and drays. |
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Also, rather tragically, she was cursed with carroty orange hair and freckles. |
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Her good hand strayed to the wound in her arm, and he mentally cursed himself for forgetting. |
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If they were heroically cursed, this loss of a superstar to a nearby rival would have caused the Rangers to win a World Series. |
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Walking forward he stubbed his toe on one of the bookshelves and cursed loudly. |
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After losing my supper thanks to those cursed waves last night, I stuffed myself with plain crackers this morning to settle my stomach. |
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Jason cursed under his breath and changed course suddenly to the next train down the line. |
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Faith's heart sank with those words, and she cursed herself inwardly for swallowing her pride and coming to him. |
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Sometimes I feel cursed because I see and sympathize with so many sides of so many housing debates. |
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He inwardly cursed himself for sounding like an egotistical butler in a penguin suit. |
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He cursed himself for his weakness, for his inability to remain angry with her. |
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The youth felt a rage coming on, like a pestered caged animal, and cursed the ineffectiveness of his single-shot rifle. |
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We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us. |
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He cursed again and plowed through the water, trying to gain extra momentum by throwing his arms back and forth. |
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I shaved and washed my face before I left, getting rid of the slight five o'clock shadow that cursed my face around dinner time. |
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Gem Casper mentally cursed the salty sea air for reducing her hair to lifeless fluff. |
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He cursed out of a regular habit as he pulled the flush down on the toilet. |
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I have been cursed for years by a poser that appeared on A Question of Sport years and years ago, and I never found out the answer. |
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Looking back, she felt nothing but foolery and cursed herself for such immature motives. |
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Natalie blushed and cursed herself for noticing that his eyes crinkled adorably when he smiled. |
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No one really knew what the secrets were but most thought the whole family was cursed and were involved with the Devil and witchcraft. |
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After all she is a girl, and her birth was an event cursed by her entire family. |
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Hercules, after killing his family in a fit of rage, was cursed to perform twelve impossible labors. |
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She felt her cheeks go warm again, and cursed her family for giving her such a pale complexion. |
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Believing the house to be haunted and cursed the remainder of the family moved. |
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He cursed it because he was thought dead by his family and could never go back. |
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Upon arriving, Patrick is enlightened to the whole situation as well as to the fact that the family is cursed. |
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I'm now fearing that it will be my bad luck to be cursed with further bureaucratic hold-ups. |
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What blood had my poor daughter been cursed with, that she'd turn us away like this? |
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She jogged over to the docks, feeling much more free without the dresses women were cursed with. |
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My generation, who lived most of our lives through the Troubles, were cursed with witnessing history. |
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She just wanted to be released from this horrible life she had been cursed with. |
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I like to wake up and wonder what the weather's doing, not be cursed with 24-hour sunshine all year round. |
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Tess cursed silently under her breath as she knew she could not stay in this hut. |
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Another boom sounded in the distance, and one of the Druids cursed fluently in a foreign language. |
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She cursed in frustration, then leapt from the shelf and flew out through the door. |
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The man cursed so loudly that she was sure that people in streets outside could hear him. |
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Jim cursed in frustration, sending his pen spinning across the desk and onto the floor. |
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She cursed softly in Spanish before grabbing some clothes and forcing herself to walk. |
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She slammed the door behind her in haste, then cursed herself for being so noisy. |
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Kayla mentally cursed at her stupidity at wasting such a great opportunity. |
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On his deathbed, wracked by tuberculosis, he seems to have cursed his fate. |
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Nothing came out to attack her, and she cursed herself for not coming to help it. |
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Standing bang there overlooking the mirror, he cursed himself, his prematurely greying lock of hair. |
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She cursed herself inwardly as the words left her and knew what was about to happen next. |
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I cursed myself for not going out before and slammed my fist down on the console. |
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Because of my misfortune, I am hunted and condemned like a cursed criminal. |
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He finds out from Gandalf how dangerous the ring is and must make the trip to distant Rivendell to decide the fate of the cursed item. |
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Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom. |
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I gave up all vices, unlike my cursed evil twin, who was often sighted at local pubs in the company of women of questionable virtue. |
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For those who haven't seen the movie, the plot hinges around a cursed video which causes anyone who watches it to die within seven days. |
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Despite being an ode to the cursed Maple Leafs, this song succeeds by playing up the superstition inherent in hockey. |
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The instant their prince drew the cursed blade, its power reached out to them. |
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A shy New York artist fears she may have descended from a family of cursed women who turn into panthers when turned on. |
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If the sacred remnants of the ancients fall into this cursed fate, all but one will parish. |
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And if his cursed power keeps me in the world of the living, then I shall bury my morals. |
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Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace? |
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But the attempt was marred by technical difficulties ranging from slow camera updates to not having the cursed thing plugged in. |
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For those unfamiliar with the design of the cursed building I inhabit, I live in the converted attic. |
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The cussed and cursed club may or, more likely now, may not move from Elland Road. |
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But the pirates have a dark secret of their own, since they have been cursed after stealing a bewitched pile of treasure. |
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Albion sometimes cursed the elfin blood that made him permanently obediant to the evil Obsidian. |
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But there is no rest for the wicked, and before I knew it I had to leave the house and make my way to school for the cursed exams. |
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He was, by all accounts, a crude chap who, when he cursed, did so to effect. |
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I feel it is high time that the county council reassessed its woeful decision to install those cursed traffic lights at Scale Hall corner. |
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I had to wait three hours for the next one and hoped no-one had cursed me for holding the flight up. |
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The doors closed, and she cursed, taking the stairs six at a time, her superior limbs bunching and releasing power. |
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It is also possible to view Williams as a tragic figure, cursed like the house of Atreus or Kennedy. |
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To the amusement of the class, we grunted and cursed each other out of the sides of our mouths as we both tried to get through the door. |
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The woman is not only dominated, but reprobate, not only impotent, but cursed. |
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He was blessed, or perhaps cursed, with the extensive Angevin heritage, an heritage that made him more powerful than the king of France. |
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Why has God cursed me with such a gift, to see what lies ahead in a town with such hardships and pain ahead? |
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Though married to a rishi, Ahalya was tricked into a love affair with Indra and cursed by her husband into becoming a slab of stone. |
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He couldn't argue with that, seeing as he was the one who wrote the cursed things in the first place. |
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They'd rescued over thirty cursed items between them, battling voodoo loas, Druids, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts in the process. |
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We are not cursed with ice storms, hurricanes, volcano eruptions or tidal waves. |
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Out in the hallway Tim cursed silently as the gunfire sounded, knowing that their slim advantage had just been lost. |
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Shiro cursed quietly under his breath as he ran a frustrated hand through his dark hair. |
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For his trouble, he's cursed with a peculiar form of lycanthropy that appears to transform its sufferers into German shepherds. |
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Two autobiographical carvings depict his belief that a mambo had cursed him by placing snakes in his belly. |
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A feral howl escaped the Employer's lips as they cursed their fate. |
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He then cursed inwardly, not at the captain, but at himself. |
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Other tribes intermarried with Canaanites and were cursed by God. |
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The pace picks up as the crew from the cursed ship starts an eerie song and the celebrating sailors try to counter with a merry drinking song of their own. |
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She was now not quite a widow, which for a Bengali Hindu woman would be the most cursed state, but a woman who brings her family misfortune and death. |
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Rather, God foreknew the Fall, so He programmed creatures with the information for design features for attack and defense that they would need in a cursed world. |
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A glance at the stack of schoolbooks on her desk reminded Lee that she had a class this morning, and Lee inwardly cursed her erratic course schedule. |
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Left in charge, he temporized, agonized, and cursed the fates. |
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Gardna we'll live forever and be cursed with all the riches in the world! |
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More than a few times I shouted angrily and cursed the opposition as they came flying down with superior aerial units to wipe my units off the map near the 30-second mark. |
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She actually smiled a real smile and I had cursed in front of her. |
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The youngest was killed, and the family forever cursed the comet. |
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Kyle cursed himself as he fumbled with bullets and cartridges. |
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As a sailor I can assure him I have no love of speedboats and have cursed them as loud as anybody in years gone by when their wash has hurled me headlong from my windsurfer. |
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I cursed the name of the barista who made my coffee and chastised the cup manufacturer from not making a more efficient system to contain a travelling beverage. |
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When she found his family, she cursed them to live their life as werecats. |
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I've been saying for quite a few years now that my family is cursed. |
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It has been a year since I purged my hovel of cursed trinkets and baubles. |
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He cursed his luck and shut his eyes tight, trying to remain motionless. |
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Kael felt his cheeks heat up at the mere hint of the heated promise in Sully's voice, and he cursed the blush, shaking his head and looking away to hide it. |
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Well, the storm formerly known as Jeanne is still dumping rain on the mid-Atlantic seaboard and still being cursed from West Virginia to West Palm Beach. |
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I cursed my stupidity as I took the tarry cauldron and whistled it clean. |
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For those who missed it, a man jumping around in a shell suit later succeeded in generating enough of a spark to send the cursed vehicle to oblivion. |
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Her family is cursed, disgraced, and she's come back to the center of it. |
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He cursed loudly, hollering it at the two men who'd raised him. |
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I cursed myself for leaving my duty-free cigs in the rental car. |
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I jumped as a sharp knock sounded at my door and cursed myself for it. |
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A few rats and some crows stirred at his coming and scampered or flew off, releasing angry caws and twitters as they cursed Romon for interrupting their meal. |
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I cursed some more, managed to staunch the flow, hopped around like a deranged Morris dancer until I could reach a plaster, patched myself up and went back to bed. |
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Five centuries ago, my whole family was cursed and turned into werecats. |
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On TV, he'd been the host of the perennially cursed morning show. |
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I cursed quietly as the cupboard slammed loudly back into place. |
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Pak cursed routinely and adjusted the gain of the amplifier. |
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The enchantress had cursed not only me, but also the entire castle. |
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Thinking she was off-air, Simmons cursed at her reportedly distracted co-anchor, Chuck Scarborough. |
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For centuries, offshore rocks, strong surf, and dense fog have cursed boats landing and launching in the Atlantic. |
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Pardon, I am traveling with a girl that had been cursed by muteness. |
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I swore and cursed at him for a couple of minutes and he warned me off. |
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The father did not deny that his son had cursed in front of the policeman. |
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Her mouth watered and she cursed the thief who took her money. |
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The chains had been cursed, jinxed by the many hands that had been bound. |
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Why am I cursed with supporting a club full of losers and jobsworths? |
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His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with. |
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Markus looked behind him in his rear-view mirror and cursed angrily. |
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And cursed myself for not researching this contingency on the Internet. |
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In other words, gay people are cursed with deep-seated disorder and are to be treated with compassion. |
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This infuriated his grandfather, who cursed Barry and never spoke to him again. |
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She took Wolf's arm and inserted herself into a file of carts, getting in front of a brace of mules whose driver cursed her, but whose whip was too short to reach her neck. |
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Even the more polished, informed, self-possessed Romney seems cursed with an Eddie Haskell air of insincerity and deceitfulness. |
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He cursed when he felt the cool rain plink at his ironed white shirt. |
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This is for branding me and putting these cursed marks on my hands. |
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In the weeks and months after her youngest son found his brother silent and unresponsive in his bed, Mary was cursed with the wisdom of hindsight. |
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But unlike many of the others, they were cursed with an ineluctable propensity to compare themselves with others-and to suffer, in their own eyes, by the comparison. |
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Ron Paul shares her fears that the dollar will be forsaken in favor of some cursed one-world currency. |
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But then they may not be cursed with quite the same burden of suspicion. |
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Viro cursed an oath, his fair eyes flashing, his muscles tensed. |
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He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. |
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He praised your cigaret, cursed feebly because his fresh milk tasted sour to him, and quietly went west. |
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He is cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe and a senile granny. |
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It was celebrated on the left as the people's avenger and cursed as the symbol of the Reign of Terror by the right. |
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On the hill of Weathertop, they are again attacked by the Black Riders, who wound Frodo with a cursed blade. |
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I cursed, thinking the automated stoplight camera had taken my photo, attributing some infraction unwarranted or obscure to me. |
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All too often, infertile women are considered cursed, she said. |
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Cubans are cursed whether they find a means of escape or remain. |
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I hated the concrete, cursed the teeming masses who looked just like me. |
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Since then, the group has been cursed with outsized expectations. |
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Since we were blessed with minds and feelings, we were cursed with minding about the unfeelingness of the universe. |
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Sancher's great-great-great-grandfather was a white Guadeloupean planter cursed by his slaves. |
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He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead. |
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Poseidon then cursed Odysseus to wander the sea for ten years, during which he would lose all his crew and return home through the aid of others. |
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Tommy Black, after dribbling past Preston keeper Teuvo Moilanen, cursed a goalmouth divot as he lost control with an open goal in front of him. |
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At this sight the pagans who before had cursed now, on the contrary, believed, and blessed the Lord, and put away their former reviling. |
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If the patient did not recover, the shrine was destroyed and cursed, so as to expel the goddess from the house. |
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His anger broke and he cursed quackingly, cursed in bleats, cursed until he drooled and had to apply his sleeve to his mouth. |
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The tablets were written in Latin, and cursed people whom the writers felt had wronged them. |
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Just get out of my way and I'll be rightways up and out of this cursed tunnel. |
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I cursed softly, if gynaecologically, and sat down on a plastic seat, moulded to fit a variety of buttock sizes not entirely comfortably. |
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You shall finde it no otherwise my sister, but that either this cursed queane hath invented a great lie, or else that she never saw the shape of her husband. |
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Gypsy stopped talking. She was breathing hard. Rico was just looking at her, far too assessingly, and she cursed herself for having said too much. |
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In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds. |
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Another legend, as recorded in Flores Historiarum is that Joseph is in fact the Wandering Jew, a man cursed by Jesus to walk the Earth until the Second Coming. |
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Come, sir, if he's been cursed to hell, why don't you bless him back again? What's the good of your blessings if they can't beat an Irish larrykin's curse? |
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Jack wants revenge against Barbossa, who left him stranded on an island before stealing his ship, the Black Pearl, along with 882 pieces of cursed Aztec Gold. |
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I waited for his assistance but it didn't come. He let me trail for I don't know how long. I hollered and cried, cursed, rocked the boat. No soap. |
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An English folk tale tells how an old woman, a supposed witch, cursed her landlord and all his possessions when he demanded the unpaid rent for her cottage. |
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The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step. |
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But it was from the original novel that Michael Moorcock borrowed the idea of the cursed sword to create the sword borne by Elric in The Stealer of Souls and its sequels. |
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Was it Fenrir Greyback with a cursed necklace in the Forbidden Forest? |
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It is quite lovely and melodic, with ample cantabiles and cabalettas, but seems inappropriate for this tragic story of a cursed man and the woman who will die for him. |
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The Hungaroring was a skidpan and world title rivals Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher cursed their luck after becoming casualties of a chaotic race. |
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And the prior of seynt Bertelmewes in Smythfeld broughte the holy sacrament of Godys body, with xij torches lyght before, and in this wyse cam to this cursed heretyk. |
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To the confusion and confounding of that cursed death's-head knight. |
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