With a sudden curse, he got out, and started - to walk after her.

With a sudden bitter curse he attacked the wall, hacking into the soft, new plaster until the trowel scraped across the door of the East Room.

With a sudden curse, the young knight pulled sharply on the reins of his horse, trying desperately to go around the creature rather than run into it.

He wouldn't say much of this explicitly, but it became obvious in his mutterings, and his sudden sharp curses, which were genuine even though they alternated with bursts of hilarity.

Far as the eye could reach were waves like a stormy sea, grey, cold-looking waves in the burning heat; but no drop of water: it appeared as though a sudden curse had turned a raging sea to stone.

West opened his mouth to reply, broke off as he heard Walker's sudden curse, half drowned in a burst of static.

Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away.

His sudden curse was followed by the removal of his fingers from her burning flesh as he bent, grabbed the waist of her pants and jerked them quickly back to her hips.

It appeared as though a sudden curse had turned a raging sea to stone.

With a sudden curse, she pulled herself back out of the hole and groped about until her hands found her cloak.