Curses
curse
C0817200 (kûrs)curses
(ˈkɜːsɪz)Curses
See Also: WORD(S)
- The captain broke loose [with oaths] upon the dead man like a thunderclap —Jack London
- Cried out a Foreign Legion of four-letter words like little prayers —George Garrett
- Cursed like a sailor’s parrot —Katherine Anne Porter
- Cursed like highwaymen —Stephen Crane
- Curse like a drunken tinker —George Garrett
- Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost —Robert Southey
- Curses, like processions; they return to the place from which they have come —Giovanni Ruffini
Probably taken from old Italian proverb.
- Curses so dark they sounded like they were being fired all the way from a ghetto of hell —Ken Kesey
- Cursing and crying like some sort of fitting had busted in her mind and this whole stream of words gushed out —Hilary Masters
- Cursing like a jay —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Erupted like a volcano of profanity —Sholom Aleichem
- Felt them [curse words] at the back of his tongue like dangerous little bombs —Thomas Williams
- Made curses fly up like a covey of quail —George Garrett
- Swear like men who were being branded —Stephen Crane
- Swore like a trooper —D. M. Moir
- To hear R curse was like hearing the Almighty tear through his own heavens and blow up the stars left and rightly —Marianne Hauser