Слово "curse". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Chapter 2 – The Curse of the Baskervilles

But Bill was stubborn, and he ate a dry breakfast washed down with mumbled curses at One Ear for the trick he had played.

was a product of the monk’s curse,

“Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject.

“It was in January, ’85, that my poor father met his end, and two years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in which it had come upon my father.”

There's a curse on this land, a curse put on it long ago, many years ago.

He kept on slipping in the slush and mud and wet grass, and every time he slipped the dwarf gave him a curse and sometimes a flick with the whip.

The man cursed and flung the empty gun from him. He groaned aloud as he started to drag himself to his feet.

He counted them with care, and then joined his partner in cursing the power of the Wild that had robbed them of another dog.

He went into the bathroom, urinated for what felt like three hours, and then decided that as long as he was up he ought to get another beer and try to take the curse off the impending hangover.

to being defiant and cursing out a storm.