Old Gerrard at the lodge is failing rapidly--has had several nasty dizzy spells.

He should have hauled off and blasted her with the nastiest spell he could imagine.

"Just work some nasty spells on the hiding place so your mother's subjects don't make away with them."

A look of transcendent joy spreads across their faces, as if they'd just been reincarnated after a nasty spell in the underworld.

"Unless someone cast a really nasty spell on Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos."

His crystal turrets were surrounded with nasty little spells that worked like trapdoor spiders, striking when birds came too close.

"We had some unexpected and unpleasant company back there and there was a nasty little spell on the door to take care of."

"So you can cast nasty spells back and forth."

The trouble was when they let me go, they were going to try a nasty little spell on me.

Last year we had an irritating habit of losing; now we seem to be in a nasty spell of drawing matches.