“The new society soon forgot the meaning of the execratory oath that the members were obliged to take at their initiation.”

“Common cursing achieves its desired result in part by breaking that taboo whereas execratory cursing conveys its force through its literal propositions.”

“We had a fellow, on the one hand, with a temperament given to bullying execratory outbursts, who had demonstrated neither an interest in nor knowledge of our Constitution.”