"Accursed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the valleys of Atuona or Taka-Uka, she said. Every dealer had sold out. Every house had been invaded. The losers had begged, borrowed, or given articles of great value for matches. The accursed Tahitian had them all but a few now being waged. Defeated players were even now racing over the mountains in the darkness, ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... He found me; I beheld Him Bleeding on the accursed tree,— Heard Him pray, 'Forgive them, Father!' And my wistful heart said faintly, 'Some of self, and ...
— In Convent Walls - The Story of the Despensers • Emily Sarah Holt
... groan of a mandrake," he continued: "they do ever lament and bewail thus when gathered. I doubt not but this tree is of that accursed nature." ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... Gavrilo was bathed in perspiration, but he continued to row with all his strength. After twice experiencing the fright that he had on this night, he dreaded a repetition of it and had only one desire: to finish this accursed task as soon as possible, regain the land, and flee from this man before he should be killed by him or imprisoned on account of his misdeeds. He resolved not to speak to him, not to contradict him in anything, to execute all ...
— Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Maksim Gorky
... the bad moment comes, the person accompanying it has a hard time of it. There are spoilt women also who have their peculiar exercises in thought and opinion, and who cannot suffer that any one should think differently from themselves, or find those things sacred which to them are accursed. They will hear nothing but what is in harmony with themselves, and they take it as a personal insult when men or women attempt to reason with them, or even hold ...
— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous
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