English vocabulary examples in context: abhor
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 1.
The book itself is, indeed, in one sense a protest against it, and no man abhorred it more than Cervantes.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 2.
All this passed through my mind, and I strove to comfort myself without comfort, indulging in faint and distant hopes of cherishing that life that I now abhor.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 3.
Mr. Duffy abhorred anything which betokened physical or mental disorder.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 4.
We go on for all time abhorred by all, a blot on the face of God's sunshine, an arrow in the side of Him who died for man.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 5.
You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 6.
Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 7.
Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light!
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 8.
Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 9.
My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 10.
Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 11.
I abhorred the face of man.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 12.
How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me!
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 13.
I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror; I abhorred myself.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 14.
The angel had conquered the demon, and, strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all her woes, that Madeleine!
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 15.
I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 16.
As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men whom he had been instructed to curse.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 17.
As for myself, constrained as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself.'
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 18.
Exaggeration I abhor, with whims I have nothing to do, and of quotation I am guiltless.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 19.
And this straightforward, honourable man employed intrigues which he had hitherto abhorred.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 20.
Beecher was asked to preach the funeral sermon --a man who abhors the lauding of people, either dead or alive, except in dignified and simple language, and then only for merits which they actually possessed or possess, not merits which they merely ought to have possessed.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 21.
The religion of Mahomet causes its devotees to abhor anything that is in the nature of pork, and so when the Christian was stopped by the officers at the gates of the city, they only glanced once into his precious baskets, then turned up their noses at the unholy lard, and let him go.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 22.
It was to teach the people to abhor and fear the new doctrine the followers of Christ were teaching.
Vocabulary in context: abhor -- Example 23.
To the absolute truth of every detail of my statement I solemnly swear, and I call Him to witness who is the Truth and the loving Father of all whose lips abhor false speaking; I pledge my honor as a Senator, that I have spoken but the truth.
