To do anything THEY have never done is
anathema maranatha.
The meagre but sufficient identification of the deceased; the impudent candor of confession; the brutal
anathema; the ludicrous change of sex and sentiment--all marked this record as the work of one who must have been at least as much demented as bereaved.
Never; and if the Pyncheons had always acted so nobly, I doubt whether an old wizard Maule's
anathema, of which you told me once, would have had much weight with Providence against them."
He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an
anathema. Old Deacon Gookin was at domestic worship, and the holy words of his prayer were heard through the open window.
The latter more than once received from his lips curses as sententious and as complicated as that celebrated
anathema of the church, for a knowledge of which most unlettered Protestants are indebted to the pious researches of the worthy Tristram Shandy.
