In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan's dictum, and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God.

When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.

Aegina had always been exposed to the raids of the corsairs and was cursed with oppressive governors during these last 30 years of Venetian rule.

This rosy-fingered, saffron-robed and golden-throned goddess, who goes up to Olympus to announce the light to the immortals, fell in love several times, and some say it was Aphrodite who cursed her to be perpetually in love, because once had Eos lain with Aphrodite's sweetheart Ares, god of war.

Di Novi also notes that, when her father was a session musician for Day, he and the other musicians had to put money in a " swear jar " when they cursed.

A former aide recalled that Ribbentrop threw the German Embassy into chaos due to his erratic personality: He rose, muttering bad-temperedly ... Dressed in his pyjamas, he received the junior secretaries and press attachés in his bathroom ... He scolded, threatened, gesticulated with his razor and shouted at his valet ... As he took his bath, he ordered people to be summoned from Berlin, accepted and cancelled, appointed and dismissed, and dictated through the door to a nervous stenographer ... He cursed people in their absence, calling them saboteurs and communists ... It was my task to put his calls through ; his valet stood within splashing distance holding a white telephone ... Ribbentrop believed only ministers ranked above him: everyone else, including his ambassadorial colleagues, had to kept waiting on the line.

Rashi interprets his father's statement of the naming of Noah ( in Hebrew נ ֹ ח ַ) “ This one will comfort ( in Hebrew – yeNaHamainu י ְ נ ַ ח ֲ מ ֵ נו ) from our work and our hands sore from the land that the Lord had cursed ”, by saying Noah heralded a new era of prosperity, when there was easing ( in Hebrew – nahah – נחה ) from the curse from the time of Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow.

( 1 Kings 2: 27 ) Shimei was confined to Jerusalem and killed three years later, when he went to Gath to retrieve some runaway servants, in part because he had cursed David when David's son Absalom rebelled against David.

When confronted with the evidence that Solomon was a free man, and told that he had a wife and children, Epps cursed the man ( unknown to him ) who had helped Solomon and threatened to kill him if he discovered his identity.

While Cassandra had been given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, she was also cursed by Apollo never to be believed.

According to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist to Oliver Cromwell and accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although he " dies " and is revived several times in the course of his career.

sound was not able to pick up, but it was later revealed by lip-readers that Daley had cursed “ Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch!

Robertson claimed that Haiti's founders had sworn a " pact to the Devil " in order to liberate themselves from the French slave owners and indirectly attributed the earthquake to the consequences of the Haitian people being " cursed " for doing so.

In the 17th century BC, Anitta's descendents moved their capital to Hattusa ( which Anitta had cursed ), thus founding the line of Hittite kings.

Then, when he had cursed Moses, his tongue came out and fell upon his breast, and he began to pant like a dog.

The Davidic line from Jeconiah had been cursed by Jeremiah saying that no descendant of " Coniah " would ever sit on the throne again ( Jer. 22: 30 ).

The enmity between Spike and Dracula was explored in the comic series Spike vs. Dracula, in which their mutual hatred is caused when Spike, along with Darla and Drusilla, slaughtered the Romani ( gypsy ) tribe who had cursed their patriarch, Angelus, with a soul, although it is unclear if either Spike or Drusilla knew precisely why Darla was so angry with the tribe.

As Echo was cursed by Hera to only be able to repeat words that had been said by someone else, she could not speak for herself.

In the version of the myth commonly followed by ancient tragedians, Medea obtained her revenge by giving Creusa a dress that had been cursed by the sorceress.

When Oedipus, the king of Thebes, realized he had married his own mother and had two sons and two daughters with her, he blinded himself and cursed his sons to divide their inheritance ( the kingdom ) by the sword.

The two were very similar — both had strong violent streaks, cursed a lot and were heavy gamblers.

It had hit a tree and injured a hamadryad, who cursed the prince with the sickness.

She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.