One of the most-frequent targets for my detestation is California chardonnay — which is often guilty of all three infractions. From Wordnik.com. [WTN: Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnays (Sonoma)] Reference
Nay, we not only behaved as having no concern for him, but as loathing him, and having him in detestation. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" - as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years - Obama has euphemistically vowed to. From Wordnik.com. [Americans For Truth] Reference
And it would lead to the kind of detestation that would include building debris, coffins, sewage, a giant stagnation pound, maybe a million people homeless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2005] Reference
It gives me a kind of detestation -- "She pulled up short. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
It gives me a kind of detestation —” She pulled up short. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
"detestation" of the provincial ugliness of "the loathsome town of Salem, Ohio.". From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
There were two prime factors in Plutina's detestation of Hodges. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Am I letting my detestation of certain personalities cloud my judgment?. From Wordnik.com. [Ellis Weiner: The Enemy Within! (?)] Reference
The intrepid woman still continued to express her indignation and detestation. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Their religious detestation of sculpture was at the bottom of this destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Catharine, much to the disgust of the aunt, who has a detestation of all young men. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
The literary thief excited the contempt and detestation such a base procedure merited. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
English hexameter was still another pet detestation which Landor nursed with great volubility. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
His detestation of the pro-slavery preaching of the day led him, with others, to form the Free. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886] Reference
If these three political groups of men, having a bond of union in their common detestation of DeWitt. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
All have witnessed with feelings of detestation, the recent efforts of the apostolicals in Spain and. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He openly avowed that he detested newspaper-writers, and they returned the detestation with interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
If Mr. Bryan goes on, he will share the detestation of the most despised character in American history. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
She had been even more than he the object of revolutionary detestation; nay, many were disposed to throw on Marie. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
France, I will call on them to let crimes of as black a dye perpetrated in Ireland meet their share of detestation. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation] Reference
As he was carried along he made his will, in which he bequeathed his detestation of popery to his friends and brethren. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He swore they would lose him more votes than he could ever hope to regain; an automobile was the detestation of every farmer. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
It was not the actual profit, but the alleged hypocrisy of Flavelle that roused the detestation of a large section of the public. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
He said many other things showing condemnation and detestation of the great injustice of the Spaniards: and at last they burnt him. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Turk such detestation and final ruin in Arabia, but it seems to have fascinated the Egyptian like a rabbit in the presence of a python. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
All this earned him variously admiration, adoration, respect, fear and detestation throughout the administration as well as in Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Did She Take The Hill?] Reference
With acidulated satire, Van Ness, enrapturing his hearers by his brilliancy, held them up to public ridicule if not to public detestation. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The feeling of detestation for the army and of inclination towards the king had in the meanwhile been growing stronger in the city day by day. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
The whole thing had come back to her now; she blushed to the roots of her hair as she realised that she had kissed the man that she only thought of with horror and detestation. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
South, by the hatred of the northern clans imbibed with his mother's milk, by the inherent detestation of hypocrisy and the myriad social and political abominations of the North!. From Wordnik.com. [The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member] Reference
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