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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Curse
 
  A curse is like a cloud—it passes.
            —Philip James Bailey		  1
                Curse away!
And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb
The Arabs have,—“Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost.” Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  2
An orphan’s curse would drag to Hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is a curse in a dead man’s eye!
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  3
  Foul and cursed as if some holy temple had been robbed.
            —John Ford		  4
  Curses are like processions; they return to the place from which they came.
            —Giovanni Ruffini		  5
  Curst, and shrewd as Socrates’ Xantippe.
            —William Shakespeare		  6
  Cursing like a very drab.
            —William Shakespeare		  7
 
 
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