But yet -- and here for once the phrase abhorred by Cleopatra does not. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference
My wifely honour is a name abhorred. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
Cursed be the day that parted me from him, and sent him to the land of Troy, that name abhorred of my soul! ". From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
She said she "abhorred" the military's ban on open homosexual service, and called it a "moral injustice of the first order.". From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference
"A possibility greatly to be abhorred," Andrusco said. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference
These past couple of decades I have abhorred ETA's madness. From Wordnik.com. ['It Has To Be Al Qaeda'] Reference
Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
He laments the fall of Pelagius, whose heresies he abhorred. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The conscience of these communities abhorred the institution. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
It wasn't just that he was a stubbornly loyal man, or that he abhorred scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Rocky Road To Houston] Reference
She was of a naturally quiet temperament, and she abhorred these awful scenes. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
He despised political expediency, but abhorred misplaced idealism and zealotry. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Judt obituary] Reference
The Nazareans were a sect of men between Jews and Christians, but abhorred by both. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Not long ago, American culture abhorred lawyers, mistrusted journalists and envied bankers. From Wordnik.com. [In Defense of Bankers] Reference
That is, if there were not between them, Zilah and Marsa, the abhorred memory of the lover!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The German people, it was said, abhorred the awful things Hitler did -- such as lose the war. From Wordnik.com. [Just Following Orders?] Reference
They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
They were abhorred by the poor, despised by the wealthy, and cruelly oppressed by the powerful. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
The graves were generally dug by the old women, as the young people abhorred this kind of work. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
They had Hotchkiss guns and Maxim guns, and the deadly, much-abhorred Vickers-Maxim quick-firer. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
She, who abhorred prying and inquisitiveness, had been accused by Jean of meddling in her affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
Those I most loved fell beneath the blow which crushed those I most abhorred, and shared the same fate. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
The New Yorker's long-time jazz critic, Whitney Balliett, once observed, Tatum's mind abhorred a vacuum. From Wordnik.com. [Art Tatum: A Talent Never to Be Duplicated] Reference
They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Ms. DOROTHY BURGGRAAF (Listener): My most abhorred and my most adored holiday song is "The Little Drummer Boy.". From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Songs You Love... and Loathe] Reference
In short I abhorred her, yet I idolized her; I felt that her love was ruin, but that to live without her was impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
While Reagan was in line with party values, McCain continues to embrace policies abhorred by many Republicans, like immigration reform. From Wordnik.com. [The Renegade Returns] Reference
Hazael is always abhorred in advance as much as Hazael himself abhorred it; but Benhadad is sure to perish, and Hazael reigns in his stead. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
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