| There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly. |
| He ceased to imprecate only when, by repetition, his oaths became too inexpressive to be worth while. |
| I know not what I ought to imprecate on the wretches who had spread a report of your death. |
| But now there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name. |
| To imprecate evil on any living being seems to them unchristian, barbarous, a relic of dark ages and dark superstitions. |
