He uttered a vicious curse.

Someone else muttered a vicious curse.

Ready to cover their retreat, Falonar glanced back-and swore every vicious curse he knew.

Now came a vicious curse from another voice.

She could feel her cheeks, damp with tears, with desperation, as she glanced back at Nikki, hearing the other woman's vicious curses.

He started to say more and hissed a vicious curse.

But Peter only flung a surprisingly vicious curse at her.

With a vicious curse, he wheeled around and ripped open the pad of paper.

With a vicious curse, he grabbed her flailing wrists.

With that last vicious curse bursting in his mind, Minor touched home.