curses

The term curses like a sailor had probably been coined about Everett E.

Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

I'm not saying I believe in curses, but I wouldn't want my mission to be the one they choose to piggyback Lightsail-1 on.

Solar sails to take flight - Boing Boing 2009

I don't believe in curses, but I do love the coincidence of all these long-suffering fans being delivered into joy in successive years.

history 2005

"It lets us know, whether or not you believe in curses, that if they are true, they can be overcome," said Dave Kunicki, who helps run a Cubs fan newsletter, The Heckler.

USATODAY.com - Focus of cursed teams turns to Cubs, White Sox 2004

Said Dave Wald, 40, triumphantly when the game ended, "Nobody believes in curses now."

USATODAY.com - What the 'hex' is going on? 2003

"I don't believe in curses, I don't believe in mystique,"

USATODAY.com - Kindred teams do unexpected: Win 2002

Stanley and his parents didn’t believe in curses, of course, but whenever anything went wrong, it felt good to be able to blame someone.

Excerpt: Holes by Louis Sachar 1998

As we approached, we heard sobbing from one or two women, and loud curses from the men.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

Hould your hand, I say, or if you don't, although I needn't curse you myself, for I am too wicked for that -- yet in the name of all these harmless and helpless creatures before you, I call their curses on your head.

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

He was listed as an example of theological anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League, when he called curses down upon Jews and labeled them the "scum of the earth" in his sermons.

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