Crossword-Solution: ACCURST 7 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

All pirates are superstitious, and Cookson cried, “They do say the surest sign a ship’s accurst is when there’s one on board more than can be accounted for.” “I’ve heard,” muttered Mullins, “he always boards the pirate craft last.

Hadst thou the same free Will and Power to stand? Thou hadst: whom hast thou then or what to accuse, But Heav’ns free Love dealt equally to all? Be then his Love accurst, since love or hate, To me alike, it deals eternal woe.

Which when the Lord God heard, without delay To Judgement he proceeded on th’ accus’d Serpent though brute, unable to transferre The Guilt on him who made him instrument Of mischief, and polluted from the end Of his Creation; justly then accurst, As vitiated in Nature: more to know Concern’d not Man (since he no further knew) Nor alter’d his offence; yet God at last To Satan first in sin his doom apply’d, Though in mysterious terms, judg’d as then best: And on the Serpent thus his curse let fall.

Because thou hast done this, thou art accurst Above all Cattel, each Beast of the Field; Upon thy Belly groveling thou shalt goe, And dust shalt eat all the days of thy Life.

Why, then,—while so much of the soil around him was bestrewn with the virgin forest leaves,—why should Colonel Pyncheon prefer a site that had already been accurst? But the Puritan soldier and magistrate was not a man to be turned aside from his well-considered scheme, either by dread of the wizard’s ghost, or by flimsy sentimentalities of any kind, however specious.