Indeed, the Gospels seldom had been read, while the Imprecatory Psalms and the latter part of the Epistle to the Romans were greasy and stained with oft perusal.
"Lancashire Idylls (1898)"
Marshall Mather
My poor father did not speak because he could not; his arms dropped; and such was the torrent of attack, with its free play of thunder and lightning in the form of oaths, epithets, short and sharp comparisons, bitter home thrusts and most vehement Imprecatory denunciations, that our protesting voices quailed.
"The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
He had always known and unwillingly admired her for a fine Old Testament Christian, one from whom the language of the Imprecatory Psalms with regard to her enemies, personal and political, might have flowed more naturally than from any other person he knew, of the same class and breeding.
"The Marriage of William Ashe"
Mrs. Humphry Ward