| 单词 | detestable |
| 例句 | She told Odysseus, who was at first inclined to think it all a trick on her part to do something detestable to him,—drown him, very likely,—but she finally convinced him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama literally dragged me to this detestable cooking club because she thinks I’m not old enough to stay home alone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He had seen a golden opportunity to attack—perhaps kill—the detestable Thlayli and Blackavar, together with their one companion—who seemed to be lame—and bring the doe back to the Council. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He can’t immediately make himself detestable—that would ruin everything—but something in his manner must hint at trouble ahead. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t suffer, as many “honest men” do, from the detestable righteousness that diminishes their virtue. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think paisley is detestable and should be banned until the end of time. Same goes for pastel-colored clothing. Oh, and khakis are repugnant.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I have known my share of peculiar, difficult, nervous, grabby people, but I’ve never encountered any genuinely, consistently detestable human beings in all my life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Procne, the elder of the two, was married to Tereus of Thrace, a son of Ares, who proved to have inherited all his father’s detestable qualities. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The main obstacle for the diffusion process being developed by Urey was its reliance on uranium hexafluoride gas, the detestable “hex,” which lived up to its nickname by severely corroding every permeable barrier Urey tried. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas George . . . king of Great Britain . . . heretofore entrusted with the exercise of the kingly office in this government hath endeavored to pervert the same into a detestable and insupportable tyranny . ArtsBeat: Founding Fathers Go Electric 2013-07-04T05:00:27Z "Hitler was, after all, a human being," noted historian Sir Ian Kershaw in a glowing review of the film, "even if an especially obnoxious, detestable specimen." Downfall: opening the book on the final days of Adolf Hitler 2013-05-16T09:14:08Z Shouldn’t we avoid spreading the stigma of any perceived appearance quirk, regardless of how detestable that person may be? Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Our industry is so detestable – so filled with lies, thefts, backstabbing, blacklisting, drug dealing, and the occasional murder – that one would expect a tendency to cover things up. Fran?ois Truffaut ? the man who loved actors 2011-02-17T22:23:01Z And at the center of things was the detestable Mike Cernovich, whose photo should flash every time the words “far-right troll” are used. Perspective | Disney’s axing director James Gunn for his atrocious tweets was understandable. But it was wrong. 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Gaston, a detestable human being, is relentless as he hits on Belle. 10 Things Belle and Hermione Have in Common 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z There is something to be said about creating villains this detestable. "Doctor Sleep" is a great movie that does justice to Kubrick's "The Shining" 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z In both his stand-up and his movies, Galifianakis makes his characters as detestable as possible, then sees if he can win the audience back. Zach Galifianakis Hates to Be Loved 2011-05-19T09:05:00Z Instead of making him more likable, it made him more detestable and he ended up becoming passive-aggressive. Jason Schwartzman on why he keeps playing neurotic authors 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z But Feito, an obviously talented writer, gives us a Mrs. March who is detestable, a person who revels in other people’s failures. Review | ‘Mrs. March’ is a stylish suspense tale that’s both darkly alluring and just plain dark 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z She found her most famous part, the desperate alcoholic Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous, "detestable". Joanna Lumley is foolish for laying rape at drunken feet 2013-01-25T20:30:01Z Insofar as giving the detestable, unreliable, post-“Winning!” “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z But they make the obsequious lawyers and businessmen, who arrive in Savile Row suits to serve and exploit him, seem detestable. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-08T23:07:01Z I can even appreciate the innovations it contributed to modern American music, partly because its most significant one bolsters my argument as to why it’s still sort of detestable. Do you "Believe" in the immortality of Cher's pop music anthem after 25 years? 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z But Lévi-Strauss was known to regard the interview as “a detestable genre.” Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z And yet both “Loyal” and “Cut Her Off” are aesthetically enjoyable songs with detestable sentiments at their core. Retro Rap That Puts Women Down 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z He worshiped strong leaders; he indulged in a virulent anti-Semitism; and only slyly, belatedly, offhandedly did he take responsibility for mistaken actions and for detestable opinions that he expressed in writing. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In short, he’s a likable guy who has been around enough thoroughly detestable white guys to channel their most loathsome qualities. "Saturday Night Live" has a problem not even Matt Damon can solve 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The prince was not amused; he later described the work as “unbearably ridiculous and detestable.” Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival With Martin Fröst and Louis Langrée 2012-08-26T21:35:23Z What, though, of the detestable books — such as “The Trigger” — removed from stores after someone objects? Perspective | A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The vulnerable side of Tony Soprano made his detestable character deeply likable. Doctors spent 40 minutes trying to revive 'Sopranos' star Gandolfini 2013-06-21T00:55:46Z You know, the word that rhymes with witch, to quote another detestable woman. Roseanne Conner Has Become a Trump Supporter. Just Like Her Creator. 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Shame on these conservative evangelical Christians, who were lambasting Barack Obama, berating him as a morally detestable figure. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z There is a captivating oddity to how this tastily detestable character speaks, as if her frontal lobe were programmed with grammar and usage flash cards. A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z "Dallas Buyers Club" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday and garnered favorable reviews, particularly for McConaughey's depiction of a man both lovable and detestable and awfully skinny. 'Dallas Buyers Club' takes homophobic cowboy's AIDS tale to Toronto 2013-09-08T19:59:01Z He was a blatant antisemite, not just someone who used antisemitic language; Pound believed Jews were detestable and bent on global dominion. Ezra Pound, Air Conditioning’s Effects on Global Warming and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z "OMG!" squeals the crowd, a detestable flurry of trilbies and matted hair extensions uniting their collective brain cell to bellow about willies, poos and snot. Grace Dent's TV OD: OMG! With Peaches Geldof 2011-03-12T00:07:02Z “Is not the great American hero occupied at this time with the same detestable business?” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z However detestable, master manipulators don’t start lobbing racist insults at folks whose money they need just because they’re having a bad day. ‘The Night Manager’ Finale: Did These Characters Make Sense? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The Le Domas family, a detestable group of scions to a vast fortune built on a board game empire, keep up a peculiar tradition when one of their own gets married. Rich territory: how class warfare is taking over the multiplex 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z In a lesser show than “Game,” having such a simply detestable straw man might seem a cheat, a cheap way to get the audience’s blood up. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z I find it particularly hilarious that Christie described Poirot as “insufferable” and a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep.” Dambisa Moyo: By the Book 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z And how a beloved author could have been a detestable human. Was George Orwell's monstrous behavior responsible for his wife's death? 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z After Charles' execution in 1649, England's Crown Jewels were melted down or sold on the orders of the republican revolutionary Oliver Cromwell as representative of the "detestable rule of kings". Scottish ceremony sees King Charles tread a thin line 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z It is not a scarlet letter enough for me that detestable owners are merely forced — or encouraged — to sell teams they ruined in myriad ways. Perspective | Daniel Snyder’s exit will be a relief, but it doesn’t feel like justice 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Those who find the presence of Fox News on their cable menus detestable should let their cable operators know it. Column: Hate Fox News? Too bad — you still have to pay for it 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Macron said the royal visit likely would have become their target, which risked creating a “detestable situation.” In Macron’s France, streets and fields seethe with protest 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z “All right, understandable. Is it a detestable act? Yes. You don’t have to like him. You can hate him. But he is sick.” Bus driver found criminally sane in sex assaults of special needs students 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z In “Bull— Jobs,” his 2018 book based on a viral essay, he probed the question of why so many of us seem to go to work only to do meaningless tasks we find detestable. Did pirates invent democracy? David Graeber's last book makes the case 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z “Unfortunately, the answers included detestable methods, and unhappily today we are a Russian colony.” Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The Detroit Free Press hailed Dred Scott because it destroyed “the underpinnings of negro-worship” and threw “that detestable ism in the dirt.” Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z There is no longer even a thought of dominance, and we are now begging for energy help from foreign nations, many of whom find us detestable. In Announcing 2024 Bid for Presidency, Trump Echoes Old Falsehoods 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z By contrast with Mencius, Xunzi held that human beings have an innately detestable nature but that they have the capacity to become good through artifice—that is, by acquiring traits and habits through deliberate action. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Jewish leaders responded in a statement that the “detestable” proposition would force large numbers of Jews and Muslims to leave. In France’s election, a meaty issue unites Jews and Muslims 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In some ways, it’s hard to choose who to support in this battle, since both contestants are detestable in their own way. Column: Heaps of money got Disney what it wanted in Florida, until now 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “But you have to see his whole message, which, while full of love for the grandeur of France, drags the country back to what was most detestable in its history.” A Jewish Far-Right Pundit Splits the French Jewish Community as He Rises 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z "I am demanding that this detestable behavior be stopped immediately," she told Politico. Top State Department adviser rips Biden’s “illegal” and “inhumane” deportation policy on his way out 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z “If the GOP can nominate someone even slightly less detestable than Matt Bevin, the party has more than a fighting chance of unseating the incumbent,” Jennings said. Kentucky governor files paperwork for reelection run in 2023 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Reminding the public of Trump officials’ responsibility for detestable policies seems like a suitable counterweight to the advantages customarily enjoyed by alumni of presidential administrations. Column: Shaming? Absolution? Jail? How to treat those complicit in Trump's wrongdoing 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The fact that he did what was lawful to do, even if the law was detestable, does not make him unfit to serve as a role model. State name: ‘Perfection is the realm of the divine’ 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The games’ touted concept, “time moves when you move,” made into a virtue something that might normally seem detestable in a shooting game: choppy action sequences. Review | ‘Superhot Mind Control Delete’: A familiar (yet intriguingly unfamiliar) sequel Where neo-Nazism is rightly regarded as a detestable fringe concern, southern pride became a point of acceptable cultural affiliation, like rooting for a given sports team or preferring a certain brand of beer. What if we treated Confederate symbols the way we treated the defeated Nazis? | John Semley 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z To Spyrow, the first in line, the idea of hoarding is detestable. The dash to Aisle 11: Welcome to the time of the coronavirus 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z That's really different than the group of people who we find dislikable, immoral, detestable. Psychiatrist calls proposal for Trump mental health more than “ineffective”: “It’s very damaging” 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z First, Pacific Gas & Electric, which may be the most detested, and detestable, corporation in California, if not in the observable solar system. Column: The hedge fund battle to control PG&E leaves no one to root for 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z He suggested that Trump had “psychological problems” and said, “he’s got something deep in him that is detestable.” At a retreat, Carter and Mondale talked about the old days, and went after Trump 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Lincoln police and the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals say 38-year-old Michael Woodhead is charged with felony abominable and detestable crime against nature and misdemeanor unnecessary cruelty to animals. Rhode Island man charged with abusing dog 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z They hate America’s president so much that they sit idly by — and mute to boot — as Londoners violently protest and call America’s president detestable names. Democrats mute as Trump bashed overseas 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Here’s how truly detestable America’s media has become. With MSNBC’s ambush interview on Robert Mueller, America’s media has hit a new low 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The House intelligence committee chairman, Adam Schiff, called the comments “detestable”. Democratic oversight is 'bullshit': Trump goes off-script at CPAC 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z But online deception about elections is detestable even when it originates inside this country, as it apparently did in a 2017 special election for a U.S. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “All of them are typical detestable human beings, and it bred an aura of innumerable negative emotions for me. You were a respite from that.” Courant exclusive: More than 1,000 pages of documents reveal Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza's dark descent into depravity 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z What isn’t simple is the fact that Trump, in attacking the detestable CNN, is also attacking the larger institution of journalism which I am a part of. Only Donald Trump can make a martyr out of CNN 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z No resident who didn’t want the bridge is obliged pay that toll: they don’t have to use their detestable bridge. 170,000 cars a day. Without a Trump Infrastructure Plan, an Aging Ohio Bridge Is in Limbo 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s a shame, too, because a fearsome woman meting out justice for detestable men is, well, kind of appropriate right now. Review: Claire Foy trades Elizabeth for Lisbeth 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar wrote that “the commission of blasphemy is abhorrent and immoral . . . but at the same time a false allegation regarding commission of such an offence is equally detestable.” Pakistan’s top court acquits Christian woman facing death penalty for blasphemy 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z We grew to accept Citibank as a detestable Moloch that we feared and hated, but were made to worship. The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z How is it that a teenager who lives so close to New York City, one of the most diverse places in the world, was so easily pulled into such a detestable, narrow-minded group? Perspective | ‘Dan from Long Island’ touted ethnic cleansing at the D.C. rally. Here’s why the online attacks should stop. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This last group stands almost alone in their bold and principled decision: Most Republicans and conservatives still find ways to rationalize their support for many of the president's policies, even if they find him detestable. Repent, Republicans, the end is nigh: But turning on Donald Trump isn’t enough 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z She does not let her characters off the hook for their detestable behaviors, but she does not villainize them beyond human recognition either. ‘The Incendiaries’ is beautiful and infuriating 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump promised to change the way Washington works, and has himself experienced the full force of this detestable Washington pastime since before he took office. Trump Is Right to Pardon Scooter Libby, an Innocent Man 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “This is a disgusting, demoralizing, distasteful, detestable scandal facing the agency where I spent 20 years,” Gabbert wrote. With Tooke’s resignation, scandal continues to burn the U.S. Forest Service 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z This contrasts with the days after the Feb. 14 shooting when Israel was lauded for his work and he railed against the “detestable” killer who took down 17 people. Florida sheriff on the defensive after school shooting 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z A detestable joke that was not at all a joke to my dining companions. For Russians, 75 Years Later, Stalingrad Is a Battle to Remember 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z It's not just the detestable acts, it's how how we as a society react to such behavior. Opinion | The Swine of Conservatism 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z “She believes the individuals responsible for hacking her private photos as well as the websites that encourage this detestable conduct should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law.” Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn, threaten lawsuits after nude photos surface on Celeb Jihad website 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Sullivan says the university community condemns the group’s “detestable beliefs,” but also understands its right to free speech. University president urges community to avoid KKK rally 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The Senate version of it is shrouded in detestable secrecy, but it is said to be similar to the AHCA. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Appearing before the Senate intelligence committee, attorney general Sessions rejected allegations that he took part in collusion with Moscow to influence the 2016 election as an “appalling and detestable lie”. Tracking Trump: more Russia, more Comey, and more 'witch hunt' whines 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The attorney general was appearing before the Senate intelligence committee to defend himself against what he called the “appalling and detestable lie” that he colluded with Moscow to influence the 2016 election. 2020 vision? Kamala Harris oversight role gives Democrats a new rising star 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The idea that he colluded with the Kremlin was an “appalling and detestable lie”. Jeff Sessions is already leaving his mark on America 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z He told a Senate committee on Tuesday that any suggestion he colluded with the Kremlin was an "appalling and detestable lie". US Senate overwhelmingly backs Russia sanctions - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Sessions said with outrage that any suggestion that he might have done anything wrong, especially colluding with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, was an “appalling and detestable lie.” Opinion | Jeff Sessions Gives a Master Class in Dissembling 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z He called the suggestion that he’d conspired with Russia “an appalling and detestable lie.” Opinion | The Mortification of Jeff Sessions 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z And he declared it a “detestable and appalling lie” to suggest he was aware of or took part in any collusion between Russia and the election campaign that sent Trump to the White House. Sessions vows to defend himself against ‘false allegations’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Any suggestions that he colluded with Russians or was aware of any collusion between Team Trump and Russians to influence the election was “an appalling and detestable lie”, he said. The attorney general’s amnesia 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “The suggestion that I participated in any collusion . . . is an appalling and detestable lie.” Jeff Sessions testifies: Refuses to say whether he spoke to Trump about Comey’s handling of Russia investigation 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Sessions calls any accusation of collusion with Russians “a detestable lie” In grinding Senate hearing, a turn in the spotlight for new senators 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z A "detestable lie" Sessions labels any suggestion that he conspired? Opinion | The Mortification of Jeff Sessions 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Calling any suggestion that he colluded with Russian officials “an appalling and detestable lie,” Sessions indignantly deflected Democratic challenges to his account of meeting with Russians. “I am not stonewalling”: Jeff Sessions can’t recall meeting with Russian ambassador, refuses to disclose his conversations with Trump 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Attorney General Jeff Sessions, above, started his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee with an emotional appeal, calling the suggestion that he colluded with Russians during the 2016 election an “appalling and detestable lie.” Jeff Sessions, Uber, Warriors: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Attorney General Jeff Sessions vehemently denied any improper meetings or collusion with Russian officials in sworn testimony at a Senate hearing Tuesday, calling such charges a "detestable lie." Jeff Sessions Vehemently Denies Improper Meetings With Russia 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z America's top law official also told the Senate Intelligence Committee any suggestion he colluded with the Kremlin was "an appalling and detestable lie". Sessions denies third meeting with Russia envoy - BBC News 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z It is detestable that he lied to the Senate under oath, about his meetings with Russian officials. Opinion | The Mortification of Jeff Sessions 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The church once used to forbid cremation as a symptom of religious deviance and what a 19th century pope called a “detestable abuse.” Once rare, cremation is becoming the new norm 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The racism, trigger-happy jingoism and heartless laissez-faire ideology so detestable in the modern GOP can all be directly traced back to his insidious 1964 presidential campaign. The Republicans wish they had Barry Goldwater right now 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Among other roles, the stock market serves as a general barometer of confidence that is independent of — and can’t by manipulated by — Trump’s nemesis, the detestable “mainstream media.” Opinion | Trump’s stock boom: Real or an illusion? 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z And while agreeing with the substance of the tweet, another user disagreed with her tone: "Why 'respectfully'? Fox News deserve no respect, they are detestable liars and hate traffickers." First Muslim Women's Day celebrated, and Chrissy Teigen hits out at Fox News - BBC News 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z When he used the phrase "an appalling and detestable lie" I wondered if he has any sense of irony, given his testimony and the extent to which he had been forthcoming. Opinion | The Mortification of Jeff Sessions 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z “These acts of violence are hateful, detestable, and un-American.” Sikh man is ‘getting back to normal,’ heartened by support 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Gov. Jay Inslee, in a statement late Sunday, condemned the shooting, saying “these acts of violence are hateful, detestable, and un-American.” Sikh man shot in Kent recovering at home, ‘wants to keep to himself’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Andrew Jackson, legal scholar James Kent wrote in 1834, was a “detestable, ignorant, reckless, vain and malignant tyrant,” the product of a foolish experiment in “American elective monarchy.” Chill, America. Not every Trump outrage is outrageous. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Today is difficult, but cheering violence against speech, even of the most detestable, disgusting variety, is not a look that will age well. Is punching Richard Spencer inciting violence or 'American as apple pie'? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z He is being persecuted because people like Mr. Bruni are engaging in innuendo to perpetuate "an appalling and detestable lie." Opinion | The Mortification of Jeff Sessions 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z In dissent, Justice Monica M. Márquez wrote that “racial bias is detestable in any context, but in our criminal justice system it is especially pernicious.” Racial Bias Among Jurors at Heart of Supreme Court Case 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z "It's detestable, deplorable and criminal to act in this manner. I hope they'll be found and punished as appropriate." France migrant crisis: Paris to open refugee camp in October - BBC News 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z But it’s not just the outreach and compliments to normally detestable Republicans that are the problem. Clinton's embrace of Republicans will harm her own party's future | Trevor Timm 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The Clinton campaign also invited its supporters to sign an open letter to Donald Trump that lists the many reasons it finds him detestable. Clinton tries to draw attention during the GOP convention with speeches to teachers and NAACP 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Yes, Trump’s comments about women, people with disabilities and minorities may be detestable, she said in endorsing him. Trump leads to a whole lot of shimmy-shaking in the GOP 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Related: China to release last prisoner jailed over Tiananmen Square protests But the families vowed they would not be silenced by such “detestable perversity”. Families of Tiananmen Square victims accuse Beijing of three decades of 'white terror' 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “The detestable sick soul had his mitigating decencies,” Dr. Aaron wrote in “The Americanist.” Daniel Aaron, scholar who helped develop academic field of American studies, dies at 103 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Finally, what is described in this article, though unethical, immoral, disgraceful, detestable, demeaning, disreputable, etc.; it is perfectly legal. A Wealthy Governor and His Friends Are Remaking Illinois 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z But no detestable remark has dissuaded his millions of devotees, particularly when he has erupted about Mexicans, Muslims, women and African-Americans. The Trouble With Trump 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z We need to defend our constitutional right to speech — yes, even speech we find detestable. ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: European terror carnage is a warning to America 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z "What Lheritier did was turn part of our cultural heritage into stocks and shares. It was detestable." Were investors conned into buying rare manuscripts? - BBC News 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Here was a black man invoking the detestable slogan of black-on-black crime to prevent himself from mourning the unjustifiable homicide of a black boy by a Neighborhood Watch vigilante. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Nearby, a fighter in the militant group Islamic Jihad who was waiting for a friend described the women as “detestable and ugly.” In Gaza, Bicycles Are a Battleground for Women Who Dare to Ride 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Jefferson called the legislation “detestable” and “worthy of the 8th or 9th century” and deemed the Federalist government a “reign of witches.” How the Rivalry Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Changed History 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It is just like a modern Republican to pick out one of the most detestable policies of the Eisenhower presidency to praise. The GOP’s Eisenhower charade: Why Ike wouldn’t have liked modern Republicans 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z This is how detestable this type of sin is to God. The GOP is a neo-Confederate party now: The South and the religious right have devoured the Republicans whole 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Blasphemy is “abhorrent and immoral”, the judgment said, “but at the same time a false allegation regarding commission of such an offence is equally detestable besides being culpable.” Pakistan supreme court warns against false blasphemy accusations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Commercially made, bottled gefilte fish, sold in supermarkets, I found detestable compared to Helen’s ambrosia. Meals and Memories 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Forgetting danger, cleanliness and reason, I ventured into the yawning Stygian recesses of the inner earth, down inclined passageways whose walls were coated with the detestable slimy niter of the earth’s bowels. This 1973 TIME Article Is Written in the Style of H.P. Lovecraft 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “It’s clear that the very things that Upper West Side New Yorkers find detestable about him are exactly what endear him to the Republican base,” he continued. Paul Krugman throws down: GOP base loves Trump because he’s “a belligerent, loudmouthed racist” just like them 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Glasberg said that while the crimes that death row inmates have committed are detestable, the punishment they face also is problematic. Lawsuit threatens to upend solitary confinement on Va.’s death row 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Plus both men detested Vidal, who, when drinking, was detestable enough to forge a bond between any objects of his ire. Two good friends, and a third guy 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z And if they liked Gone Girl, they’ll be thrilled to see another woman who’s allowed to be smart and mean, vulnerable and detestable. Reese Witherspoon Is Building the Ultimate Book Club 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The Vikings continue to look stupid and worried more about money and winning than doing the right thing, mirroring the NFL’s growing detestable ways. Marshall case another blast to end Goodell's run 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z But Terry learns how to handle the boy, who’s initially detestable but then reveals his sweeter nature. ‘Ilo Ilo’ movie review: Family matters in Singapore Answer: The president's remark is detestable and not without consequences. Associations: Directors must act reasonably to keep premises safe 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z However detestable that sounds to the values of sport and life, that’s how they think. LeBron James is not going anywhere "Never let me hear that detestable phrase again. If you're talking about British troops, you will refer to them as wounded soldiers." Business jargon: Squaring the circle 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Congress is considering allowing the Obama administration to impose a visa ban and freeze the assets of Venezuelan officials who committed human rights abuses -- a prospect that Maduro rejected Tuesday as "detestable." Kerry blames Venezuelan gov't in crisis 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Maduro this week described a vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to impose a visa ban on and freeze assets of certain Venezuelan officials as “detestable.” Kerry says there has been “a total failure” by Venezuela’s government to act in good faith Other words used in place of “unclean” in the Old Testament are detestable, or a practice, act, or animal might be considered an “abomination.” Stop twisting the Bible: There is no message against same-sex marriage 2014-04-12T18:00:00Z In his review, the Daily Mirror's said the programme had featured "some amazing visual sequences, a number of clever twists, a truly detestable villain and a strong story". Praise for 'perfect' Sherlock finale 2014-01-13T10:47:09Z They found that neurons in this region activated differently when subjects viewed detestable and likable characters. Mirror Neurons Can Reflect Hatred (preview) 2013-04-02T12:15:00.503Z Depardieu then engaged in a public spat with France’s Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who called the actor’s tax exile “minable” — a term combining elements of vulgar, shabby, detestable and lame. Depardieu Skips Trial, Next Stop, Russia? 2013-01-09T08:55:00Z The petition she signed claims: "The name of Bigeard is synonymous with the most detestable practices of the French Army." French general laid to rest after posthumous battle 2012-11-20T02:45:09Z Likewise, Moses’s way of determining that some things were abnormal, therefore unclean, therefore off limits, therefore an abomination is not how we determine what is acceptable or detestable today. Stop twisting the Bible: There is no message against same-sex marriage 2014-04-12T18:00:00Z The standard was poor and some of the players were detestable. The Secret Footballer: undercover in the Premier League 2012-08-10T22:00:42Z “Shame on us,” said the Rev. Marcia Taylor of the Inland Northwest Presbytery, in Tacoma, Wash., “for even considering asking God’s blessing on a relationship that is detestable to God.” Presbyterians Reject Change in Definition of Marriage 2012-07-07T01:40:46Z But why not abolish the detestable thing altogether? Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z At the outset of his public career lecturing was as distasteful to him as in earlier years the trouble of writing was detestable. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z We hear echoes of the Old Testament view of clean and unclean, natural and unnatural, acceptable or detestable. Stop twisting the Bible: There is no message against same-sex marriage 2014-04-12T18:00:00Z At the sight of the blood-stained face of his enemy, Mohammad exclaimed: 'Verily, this man was the detestable Pharaoh of his nation!' The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Is it possible for human ingenuity to devise any thing so mathematically detestable? The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z Since that time I have never been able to hate a young rattlesnake half as much as that detestable breed of Shanghaes. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Nine-tenths of the lady equestrians, and perhaps even a greater number of gentlemen, ride from the horse's head; a detestable practice which cannot be too highly condemned. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z And images and words can have multiple meanings, however despicable or detestable we find them. IHT Rendezvous: Art, Free Speech and Racism 2012-04-18T15:47:11Z His detestable excesses had created such general terror that a rising of the people was to be apprehended unless some speedy remedy was had. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z She was quite safe, and it was by no means detestable at the age of forty-two to be coveted by the cleverest young man in Brabant County. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Apart from the verse of the period, there have been few manifestations of art and craft more detestable either for beauty or for comfort than those of the Regency. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Even raw macaroni sprinkled with cacciacavallo, detestable as it may be, is certainly better than nothing. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z And they read in the destruction of Sodom a clear intimation that certain forms of wickedness were detestable to God. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z The detestable niggardliness of Nabal’s heart would not suffer him to part with anything which he could find an excuse for retaining. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z It means the beginning of the end of this detestable prison life. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The natural consequence was, that the fellow took me to the most detestable little inns, and actually starved me. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z No wonder, ye Jews, that the inhabitants of Egypt so willingly gave you their gold and silver ornaments to get rid of a people so detestable, and, with them, a more detestable God. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Lieutenant G—— said he did not care—death was preferable to that detestable prison. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z I think you the most cowardly, rude, detestable boy I ever met. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The humanized Irishman of to-day is content with the handle of "the detestable instrument." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z She once referred to him publicly as "that detestable invalid." Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The practice, to which French writers are so much addicted, of making "copy" of the private lives, characters, and relationships of themselves and their friends, seems to me in all cases utterly detestable. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Eccentricity is, at the best, in bad taste; but an imitation of it—second hand oddity—is detestable. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z I hate you," she cried, "you rude, detestable child. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Ordinarily, for University of Louisville fans as rabid as those in my family, this would be the most useless and detestable purchase they could imagine. Louisville vs. Kentucky rivalry shows its true colors this week 2012-03-29T04:24:04Z The compiler gives a collection of the most emphatic testimonies of the greatest preachers of the day against this "detestable vice." Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church 2012-03-29T02:00:12.080Z Though humane reformers did at last succeed in getting rid of the detestable system of flogging in the army, the practice of trafficking in commissions seemed safer than ever. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z It is superstition, bigotry, credulity, and dogma that are detestable. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z I am horrified to state how shame- “ful was the life which Benedict led, how dissolute, how “detestable. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The block on the roads and the detestable arrangements at the post-houses are to blame for it. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z But, at the time I speak of, Fenianism was a vague, mystic, accursed thing, which it was proper to regard as utterly detestable and contemptible. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z What I meant to say was, that I wished you would take a seat somewhere, where one might catch a glimpse of you, instead of beneath the shade of this detestable window curtain. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z Man has forfeited his claim to be a rational creature, when he worships objects so degraded as the heathen gods, when he practises vices so detestable and ruinous. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; Ð as, an accursed deed. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The chlorin soon filled the room, and its detestable odor became so intolerable that we forced the door, and rushed past the sentinel into the open air, nearly suffocated. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z But above all, however detestable we may consider polygamy, where is the Divine command against it? Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z His Excellency is informed that one Hannibal de Tavannes, guilty of the detestable crime of sacrilege and of other gross crimes, has taken refuge here. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z And his peculiarity is, that he makes all man’s lower instincts ridiculous as well as detestable. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Your parasites and sycophants and courtiers are a most morose, miserable, ugly, detestable, intolerable swarm of blind beetles and wasps; the devils are beyond comparison better company.” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Their detestable cookery needs the "sauce of hunger." Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z The detestable system of slavery is totally abolished by the Ti-pings, and the abolition made effective by punishment with decapitation upon the slightest infringement of the law by male or female. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z "I don't care a rap where I go to so long as I get out of this detestable Rotterdam," he replied. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z And will any one say that he is not a miserable caitiff who sells his own divine being to that which is most godless and detestable and has no pity? The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z He thought with agony of the terrible scene when Samba, rather than say a word to the undoing of those he loved, had endured the tortures inflicted by the inhuman agent of a detestable tyranny. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z But Jesus, finding this prodigy produced no change in their minds, darted a furious look on the assembly, and, boiling with a holy choler, instantly forsook the detestable place. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z The detestable opium trade would have been completely annihilated, and British produce would have taken its place, to the benefit of the Chinese, and the relief of the choked markets and distressed operatives of England. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z It only needed the presence of the detestable owner of that name to momentarily cause Ralph to feel that the situation was working down to one of absolute peril and intense seriousness. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z When they have whizzed their last, who cares for the tin relics outliving their detestable activities? Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z This immense exclusion has been made the basis and pretext of the anarchical party, which covers its detestable designs with the appearance of right torn from it, and requiring to be reconquered. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z His entrapment by the detestable Cora is so painful that perhaps I was glad to think it also slightly incredible. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 21st, 1916 2012-02-21T03:00:19.417Z “James K. Polk” by They Might Be Giants James K. Polk was, in many ways, a detestable man, and the country would’ve been better off had Henry Clay won the election of 1844. The Geek Playlist: Presidents Day 2012-02-20T15:31:02Z I say put up, for the wine that now goes by the name of Falernian is detestable. Buzz a Buzz or The Bees 2012-02-18T03:00:15.753Z There are such, but they are muzzled, and the detestable horrors of civilisation go on in a community which calls itself after the name of Christ. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z His first important picture, “Dante and Virgil,” was painted in his own studio; and when Gu�rin went to see it he flew into a passion, and told him his picture was absurd, detestable, exaggerated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z For weeks, while we had been lying off Southampton, the weather had been detestable—blusterous north-west winds, accompanied by heavy rains, prevailing. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z Ixion, then, in direct contrast to Prometheus, stands forth an embodiment of the most detestable of sins, perpetrated simply for personal ends. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z When I reflect on this I am almost tempted to say that in my heart I repent of having adopted the profession of knight-errantry in so detestable an age as we live in. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z They who framed the Bill, sitting in wicked, detestable confabulation, had fixed the limit of Schedule B so as to spare Calne and Tavistock--Arcades ambo, Whig boroughs both. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z He spoke of them as "traitors to their comrades," "ignoble creatures—Judases who sold themselves to the oppressors for thirty pieces of silver," "more detestable than scabs." Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Did this detestable doctrine "create the purity and peace of domestic life"? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z She held out the detestable little volume as she spoke. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z But if this was to be his return, if his advances were to be met with suspicion, his benevolence with churlishness, then all, all in this young man was of a piece--and detestable! Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The heads of accusation were nothing but falsehoods and absurdities, and the bull contained nothing but horrible, detestable, and iniquitous falsehoods. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z "Spare me your detestable slang terms, Laurence, at least!" she cried, turning on me again like a whirlwind. Mr. Punch's Golf Stories 2012-01-28T03:00:25.907Z Nevertheless, Blanche, turning matters over in her mind, could only look at it and at that detestable East Wing with an increased sense of mystery. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z A few days after the transmission of this letter, king Edward wrote to the pope, expressing his disbelief of the horrible and detestable rumours spread abroad concerning the Templars. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z I thought it a detestable custom, but it was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labour. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z There is no trace in him of the selfish calculation, or the baser falsehood, which renders 'the life of pleasure,' as led by many men, detestable. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He flapped again, recovered his balance, and folded himself up in black resignation to the detestable weather. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Hate′able, deserving to be hated; Hate′ful, exciting hate: odious: detestable: feeling or manifesting hate.—adv. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z And yet, I shall be obliged to receive him—I shall warn Philip that he had a detestable reputation with women, and if that does not suffice, well—I will tell Philip everything. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z But now these were detestable, horridly outré, and so barbarously antique, that I could only appear as Rembrandt's Wife, or some such relic of ancient history. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z The Roads are detestable if it rains ever so little; which added to the length of the Post-Stages, renders it a very disagreeable Journey. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-08T03:00:19.933Z I know not at all whether He who created me belongs to a delicious Paradise or a detestable Hell. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The Air here is detestable, to such a Degree, that there’s never more than a Detachment in the Garison at one time, and yet a great many Men die here. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z He early saw that colonizing free blacks to Africa would never abolish Slavery; but that, on the contrary, it tended to prolong its detestable existence. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z I affected to disbelieve his assertions, and ridiculed his ill-policy in striving to found his merit on such base and detestable grounds. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z How dreary my early experience was ... what detestable travesties of passion! San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z On the contrary, a fundamentally immoral man will always be a detestable professor of ethics. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Pilate, tho’ he sacrific’d the Son of the Almighty, is even less detestable in our Eyes than you; for he receiv’d no Gold to punish the Innocent, but you take it to save the Guilty. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z “Shoot!” he cried, his voice ringing out clear and unshaken—“shoot and prove yourself a detestable coward!” Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z The propagation of them are, however, perfectly consistent with the Perfidy, Cowardice, and Barbarity of Gage and his detestable understrappers.” Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 2011-12-28T03:00:44.040Z And there was certainly nothing in the doctrines of his venerated master to justify this detestable habit. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Talk that is “worse than a smoky house” must be something out of date, or Shakspeare’s imagination never comprehended anything so detestable as a Patagonian hut. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z But I trust that unutterably detestable system will soon be done away with. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z His literary manner was always detestable, poor old chap; and, of course, Australia was hardly likely to improve it.’ A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z It is in vain to attempt to relieve the memory of the son of Vespasian and brother of Titus from the ignominy of the most odious and detestable crimes. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z This alone was wanting to make him absolutely detestable. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Here we have a point-blank justification of all those atrocious immolations which disgraced humanity for so many centuries, and laid the foundation of detestable laws, in the countries of America. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z "Yes," I replied, "and thus all detestable old prejudices will die away." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z If he has married in haste—and he has—to repent at leisure—as he may—though this is trite and detestable language, I pity him, from my soul I do! A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z Referring to this statement, Holland says: "The eagerness with which this volume strives to cover Mr. Lincoln's memory with an imputation so detestable is one of the most pitiable exhibitions which we have lately witnessed." Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z The Inquisitors constantly succeeded, by this detestable knavery, in concealing the truth, and facilitated their object by being careful not to number the reports. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z How then can it be said, that there is unity in the bond between you, if he continues a stranger to the brightness of your faith, separated from it by the darkness of detestable error? Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z Imagine my plight; imagine the figure I cut while that detestable little Joliette was saying all this. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Her mind had been cunningly poisoned by an utterly unscrupulous and wholly detestable woman, and she flamed out into a fit of imperious anger against Jessie. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Consummate hypocrisy in a Christian is all right with this moralist; but for a Freethinker to withhold his views from an intolerant religious world is a detestable crime. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z It is to the honour of humanity, he says, that so detestable a form of evil as organised religious persecution has appeared only in one section of history. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The masses, ignorant, and bitter with their wrongs, broke from the control of statesman and reformer, threw themselves upon the established state and church, both equally detestable to them, and tore them to pieces. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z She declared that she was not guilty, that she was the victim of a detestable piece of treachery. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z “You’re the most detestable person I know, as a rule,” she informed him. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z He only looked at him, and quietly smiled his detestable cunning smile in the other's face. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z And from this, every sane mind may see and know what is the true root of such rash and pitiable murders; whether it is injured honour, or scandalous and detestable greed and cupidity. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z But of all kinds of dogs, surely the one called a Scotch terrier was the most alarming and detestable. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Defined and brought to book, that is a detestable system. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z “If you think I’m detestable, what do you suppose I think of you?” he asked. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z I showed her that thus his last days should be made happy with love and light and friendship, instead of wretched with fear and the society of a detestable woman. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z This clearly shows with what intent he had broken into such detestable excesses. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z Hank's bullet had, in fact, killed Hurley instantaneously, and had thereby provided a fitting punishment for the detestable crime he had committed. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z He bore a detestable reputation throughout the entire huerta, since there was hardly a district where he did not own property. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z Why, on top of her experience of bearleading a brace of utterly uninteresting and unengaging children—and being at the beck and call of their detestable underbred mother, this was ideal. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z But alas, the vast majority of professing Christians, whether rich or poor, Churchmen or Dissenters, seem possessed with a devil of detestable selfishness, and know not the luxury of doing good. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z For who can be found so unmindful of filial love and duty toward parents as to persuade himself that this tender girl could have laid upon her parents such detestable crimes? The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z It is “an indescribable dishonesty,” a “detestable untruth,” etc. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erect-ing the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied. Heretics And Heresies From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' 2011-11-24T03:00:47.387Z They could not persecute except by holding no fellowship with unbelievers, by shaking off the dust of their feet against those who rejected their Gospel, and by other harmless though detestable exhibitions of bigotry. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z She had been, in his imagination of her, the embodiment of all that was detestable in woman. A Mere Chance, Vol. 3 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.990Z If the situation became such that the Northern States, Connecticut and Massachusetts particularly, clearly dominated the situation, it was far better to submit temporarily and endure even detestable measures than to break the Union. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z According to papal decisions it is an excess of extravagance and folly, and a detestable innovation, to translate the Roman missal into the vernacular. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z "Go home alone?" repeated Slocumb, with a sort of sympathetic interrogation that was detestable to her. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Earl Bothwell was much suspected of this villainous and detestable murder.... Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 2011-11-20T03:00:16.107Z A more detestable locality for a night out of doors it is difficult to imagine. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z He was the detestable atheist who had participated in the bloody excesses of the French Revolution—a wretch unworthy of being thus honored by a Christian nation. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z One incident that I remember of Saratoga was a detestable train that invariably came along in the middle of my performance—the evening train from New York. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z I see clearly that you have some detestable plan. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z That accentuated remark by Rutley revealed to her with sudden vividness the detestable character she was developing. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Madame Lambert takes snuff, and I consider it a detestable habit in a woman. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z At such times that fatal dispute hovered before me, and my conduct in the matter appeared to me detestable. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z A portion of the house would appreciate it, of course, but on one occasion a detestable young couple thought the trills were intended to be humorous. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The detestable, unanimous answer is "No. A treaty cannot hinder the state from doing what its interest demands." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z All slang words are detestable from the lips of ladies. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Let me tell you that you are a detestable cynic. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z I've come to the conclusion there's nothing so detestable as a good housekeeper. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z I must confess to you that my pride never could stand this, for these adventurers are such detestable people that I have the utmost horror of them. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z After all the place does not suit me; the people are rozzi, and speak a detestable dialect, and yet it is better than any other Italian sea-shore north of Naples. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z They are resistlessly—most conscientiously and honestly—impelled to make the other side appear detestable and insultingly offensive in heinous wrong-doing. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z The scene, which a few moments before had seemed so beautiful, was now perfectly detestable. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z It would be a detestable person who didn't like Violet, I think. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z I see that he is in a complete puzzle on my account; he cannot explain to himself how I can be so extremely delightful, and yet so detestable. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Read a little of Petronius, a most detestable book. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z It was not for conquest, or for redress of injury, but to impose a government on France which she refused to receive—an object so detestable that an avowal dared not be made.” The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Any stranger could have entered that room, and any enterprising literary thief—a not uncommon and particularly detestable animal—might have slipped this priceless book into his pocket. Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts 2011-10-27T02:00:27.377Z Since these impious and detestable Saxons have disdained to keep faith with me, I, to keep faith with God, will endeavour to revenge the blood of my countrymen this day upon them. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z Forbidden Books.—One should never read anything written by those arrogant wiseacres and puzzle-brains who have the detestable vice of logical paradox. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z I cannot think, from his writings, that he can be such a detestable being. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z You do not know how earnestly I have prayed that you might find me detestable.' The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z The pokiness of the poky house did not trouble me, but its situation was detestable. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z I pity you, I pity you, because the detestable monster will this night destroy the flower of your youth. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z And let her passion for the monster be As shameless and detestable as he Is most extreme and vile of humankind.' The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z So little sparing was he, that when he died, but few birds were left for others of his detestable trade who came after him. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z With whatever design they have inflamed this pernicious contest, they are themselves equally detestable. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z He once spoke of the law as 'that most detestable of human occupations.' Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Among the rest was one detestable monster, named Goëmagot, in stature twelve cubits, and of such prodigious strength that at one shake he pulled up an oak as if it had been a hazel wand. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z It would never enter into the head or heart of a Protestant to conceive so detestable an action. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Bacchanalianism in all its most detestable forms reigns rampant in almost every home and purlieu throughout the Upper Provinces. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Who would imagine that the Deity conducts his providence similar to the detestable despots of this world? Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z I went on, the vale increasing in beauty; there was a considerable drawback, however: one of those detestable contrivances a railroad was on the farther side—along which trains were passing, rumbling and screaming. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z But when this calamity shall be over, a detestable bird shall go to the valley of Galabes, and shall raise it to be a high mountain. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z It was complained that the book was partly the offspring of a poet, and partly the offspring of a social philosopher, and that while the poetry was noble the philosophy was detestable. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z It is a detestable thing to do, I admit, but it is necessary if we are to remain in business. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Meanwhile he was in the detestable position of not knowing p. 68whether or no he were engaged. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Yours is fine in appearance, detestable in results. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z As soon as Aurelius had drunk it up, the wicked Ambron ordered him presently to cover himself close up, and fall asleep, that the detestable potion might the better operate. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z That detestable man, Foggy Raves, made Mr. Winger uneasy about the money. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z That victim of a detestable conspiracy was the object of a sanguinary determination from the moment she so unhappily came over to this kingdom. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z He was just paring his apple de pine, when the detestable negroes rushed in and overset the table. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z The unrestrained predilection of this youthful prince now became habitual pursuits, and excesses of the most detestable description were not unknown to him. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z The immense distance between this place and the castle you inhabit renders it doubly detestable. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z My anguish, my melancholy, were heavier on me; as each day wore away the jail became odious, detestable. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The season is too inclement, the roads unsafe and detestable; the distances too great for me to permit you to come hither, where my affairs detain me. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z I'm thinking, Mr. Crittenden, of making a leisurely trip around the world—not one of those detestable, herded, conducted tours. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z I may bid a final, glad adieu to this detestable world, to all its servile customs, and all its despicable inhabitants?—Why do you not speak?—Be brief, be brief!' The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z My ever dear and charming Roseline, I cannot live much longer in this detestable place, where the women are artful, the men base and designing. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z Powerless in dealing with the Cossacks, to whom his name was detestable, without friends, except among the petty nobles, whose support in that juncture was more damaging than useful, he made a Turkish war certain. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z If Miss Minchin knew everything on earth and was like what she is now, she’d still be a detestable thing, and everybody would hate her. A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time 2011-09-09T02:01:08.700Z They were as bad and detestable as the Red Indians were to the Colonists in America long afterwards. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z In David Copperfield, Uriah Heep, utterly detestable in character, is the natural product of the system of training under which both he and his father were brought up. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z I merely felt that I detested Mrs Valetta and Mrs Skeffington-Smythe, and most of all the detestable man they were squabbling so crudely about. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z A pose is detestable in man or beast; it not infrequently leads to his undoing. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z He adds, “Of all the detestable American drinks on which our inventive genius has exercised itself, this black-strap was truly the most outrageous.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Passionlessly the light was sweeping all this, plucking out of the shadow one by one the detestable details. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z It was the first time it had ever occurred to me that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z That detestable thing on the hearthrug there has dogged my path to misery and ruin; you cannot be without some responsibility for its conduct. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z They made none of the odious politenesses which are so detestable in well-brought-up people. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z "Think, think, of something it can mean which isn't detestable!" The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z I ought to have warned her never to dance with that detestable man. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z He had sent him to Oxford, where he had done tolerably well; from the University he had returned with a fund of new ideas which were to his father strange and detestable. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z And therefore the embracing of the late detestable indulgences, were as contrary to the actings of this as to the testimonies of the former period, against the supremacy from which they flow. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z He enrolled and classed the natives in divisions, called Repartimientos: from these he assigned to the Spanish proprietors a specified number of labourers, by grants, which, with most detestable hypocrisy, were denominated Encomiendas. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z Aymer was incapable of self-laudation, of that detestable conceit which some think it proper to show when they have made what they are pleased to call “a conquest.” World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z He thought the war a detestable one, and grieved much at the mischief and misery it was occasioning to many; his only consolation being that he did all in his power to prevent it. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z A reply was accordingly made, in which the “Eik” was maintained to be false in every particular, and nothing but a device, contrived to justify Murray’s own “detestable doings and ambitious purpose.” Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z The first is enchantment, which I need not describe, and of which I will speak no more, because it is what everybody knows to be detestable, and nobody ought to know the art thereof. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; 2011-08-14T02:00:22.973Z I started from the floor, and threw myself on the straw couch; but the beating continued, with the same detestable variety of laughter and groans. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z All of this detestable selfishness culminated in the treatment of Captain Bob Bartlett. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z This detestable institution attained to greater scope and power here than it did even in Mexico. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z There is nothing so detestable as this wire fencing in his idea. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Oh, the wicked, wicked, detestable creature that I am! A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z She dwells with satisfaction on many attributes of character and demeanour, in which her beloved Leonard differs from, and contrasts with, the detestable monk, by whom her brother had been put to death. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z In response to a public clamor for a peep at these papers, a more detestable unfairness was forced on the public. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z She swaggers about like a detestable young man instead of a young girl.” Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z And the beauty of their ornaments, they turned it to pride, And the images of their abominations, their detestable things made they of it. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z One, a Magdalene, is of the size of life; the only large picture by this elegant, elaborate, soulless painter I ever saw: he is to me detestable. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Then my detestable double laughed and groaned as he had before done, and stuttered out—"But lose no time—lose no time—Quick-ly, quick-ly!" The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z But in other cases, self-slaughter, to avoid trouble or the performance of inconvenient duty, is cowardly and detestable. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z This naturalness in his characters is Mr Crawford's greatest attraction, and when he departs from it, as he does in such detestable melodramas as the Witch of Prague and Greifenstein, he is no longer himself. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Every new uprising was followed by fresh impositions; the detestable dominion was fastened upon the people more hopelessly than ever. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z I sometimes played that exquisite thing entitled Au Soir and that brought me one day this singular invitation, "Come and amuse us with your Schumann with its detestable false notes." My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z His countenance was deadly pale, and again disfigured by a grizzly beard, but the features of my detestable double were to me but too easily recognizable. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Cutting your throat is a detestable want of consideration for those who have to efface the stains. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z The evening was pretty far advanced when at length the house-door bell was loudly rung; and immediately afterwards Mr. Stephen Corbold entered the drawing-room looking more assured, and, as Helen thought, more detestable than ever. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z "And so," began Angelika with a pout, "you miserable, detestable man, we are to do nothing but knit stockings?" Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Accordingly, on the day appointed I started; in due time reached Packham, losing much time on a detestable branch line, and there found the dogcart of Sir Francis awaiting me. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z “But not until I had passed the cows, you detestable boy,” replied she, with a tinge of colour in her bright, laughing face. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z There was the name of Jesus, frightening the demons; black magic took this name and converted it to its detestable uses. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z He recalled the face which bore such a detestable resemblance to his own, and remembered its look of triumphant hate. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z But if she detested it then, it strikes her now as ten times more detestable. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Nearly two years of his life have been spent in this detestable traffic, and how sick he is of it, he himself hardly knows. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Every time I looked round I caught that detestable eyeglass glaring at me.” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z I now do frankly own, I am fully alienated from him, in his present detestable character, as developed towards me, his lawful wife. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z But tell me, Agnes, have you not suffered dreadfully from the tyranny and vulgar ignorance of this detestable woman? The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z It is too detestable!... and I only hope, that when I get among my own connexions in town, I shall not have the misfortune of meeting him often.... The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:14.900Z Two hours and a half ride from Antioch, through a country that is a perfect paradise upon earth, but over the most execrable and detestable: road, brought me to the ancient Seleucia. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The very name of Ingelow was repulsive to her; had not that detestable family wrought mischief—not to say crime—enough? Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Exalted sentiments were not to his credit when lip service made them detestable. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z The ragout was black and detestable, but hunger made it seem delicious. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z With a hoarse, croaking voice, he sung divers national songs, of which I did not understand a word; but if the words were like the music, they must have been every way detestable. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z These worms backed away from the buttery odor, showing that it is not the odor receptors but the wiring of the nervous system itself that determines whether the worm deems an odor delicious or detestable. In Tiny Worm, Unlocking Secrets of the Brain 2011-06-20T19:00:46Z How can he help his family being detestable?” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z To him the Roman Court was detestable, chiefly as a foreign yoke; the corrupt priesthood, as a domestic usurpation. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The road all the way to Georgief was the most detestable that could be imagined. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Methought his detestable features at length enlarged, moved, and were writhen in mockery and scorn. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z As to his methods, they are not detestable. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z "He is a detestable snake in the grass, then!" Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Burning with zeal against such detestable phariseeism he rejoiced in his Socratic logic as a new kind of weapon, which he hoped to employ with good effect against it. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z Decidedly the camel is the most detestable quadruped to ride in the world. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z "And all this has come about through that detestable young scoundrel who refused to open a gate for you." The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Mrs. Besant's chief colleague has stated as late as 1913 in open court that he still believed in teaching a detestable vice to boys, which he had previously taught them. H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z I am glad you no longer care for Alan; and as for me, I just hate him; the detestable, stiff-necked—pshaw, don’t talk as if you had wronged him!” Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z But then he cannot away with that false religion, that detestable superstition called christianity. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z We tasted the beverage at Prince Tumene's, but must confess it was perfectly detestable, and instantly reminded us of Madame Gibou's incredible preparation. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Must I accept the detestable truth that the gold which I thought I had discovered behind the vail of sin was but tinsel all the time, and tarnished with many an indelible stain of crime? Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z This latter is rather to be recommended to the public; among all warm drinks cold coffee is, indeed, of the most detestable flavor, but at the same time of the least potency. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z I thought it a detestable custom; but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labour. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z Untidiness is execrable, reprehensible, unseemly, and quite detestable. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z Every thing was ready for our departure, but a violent fall of rain detained us three mortal days in the most detestable cabin we had yet entered. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The wicked and detestable emperors, those monsters of nature, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, had successively governed and cursed the Roman state. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Could the innocent, whole-hearted eleven, who had overlooked in her so much that was detestable, have read Mignon’s mind, her connection with the Lookouts would have been summarily cut short. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z This detestable stranger wants, perhaps, to get back what he has spent here. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z Every thing about her was in a condition noisome and detestable. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z We need not wonder at any eccentricity of taste when we see men preferring the dislocating torture of riding those detestable trotters to the fatigue of walking fifteen or twenty versts a day. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z In the second, separation from you, and union with me,—a being so detestable,—would equally have poisoned his existence. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Six o’clock would mark the end of the detestable session. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z I opposed this detestable design," continued the slave-princess, "and laid before her the terrible consequences of such a deed. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z No truth was ever more delicious; none was ever more detestable. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z My husband's anxiety to commence his surveying operations, and our eagerness to quit our detestable abode, gave us courage to risk the chance of another storm in the open steppe. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z It was detestable to my imagination, because it severed me from that friend in whose existence mine was involved, and without whose participation knowledge lost its attractions and society became a torment. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z On whatever afternoon she should be detailed for duty in this detestable day nursery, she would find some good excuse for evading it. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z The agent entered the office with all the arrogance of a detestable victor. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Newman unfortunately could conceive of modern thought only as a detestable and soul-deadening ‘liberalism,’ a halfway house to atheism, as Anglicanism was, in his mature view, a halfway house to Rome. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z His Royal Highness also swore that "he never did commit, nor had any intention of committing, the detestable crime," which it had pretended Sellis had discovered the Duke in the act of committing. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z She urged her horse to its full speed, fain to put all distance possible between her and the detestable scene on which she had just looked. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I shall never forget a scene in the church, where, by the way, the French beat us at all points in quiet endurance of a detestable experience. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z To us each hour is of consequence, especially in this modern day which has invented the detestable creed that time is money. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Nor did Carlton ever actually know, or seek finally to ascertain, the author of a deed even more detestable than it had appeared at first sight. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z That has to make the trade a little less detestable, right? The Erik Bedard trade with Baltimore, revisited 2011-05-11T18:16:29Z The slaves are pitiable; the slaveholders are detestable; the slave-hirers are contemptible. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z Few occupations are more detestable than poring over cypher, but total inaction is worse. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z I agree with you as to the detestable influence of the political hesitations of the Government. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z This picture is foul and detestable enough, but it is perhaps in the treatment of children that the workhouse system causes the greatest unintentional cruelty. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Avoid priggishness, which is detestable mental dry-rot; and flee from cant, the convenient domino of hypocrisy. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z They accused Jerome, and other "detestable monks" of killing the young widow with austerities. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z But we did not know that then; we only knew that he was a magnificent, tawdry and detestable person. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z When you see the place, you will not wonder that Elliott’s poetry is what it is; for how could a man be expected to write amiable things in such a detestable town? A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The ladies, old and young, married and the reverse, agreed that she was detestable, and were sure there must be something "queer" about her. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z There was no glory about war—that was merely a fiction to hold soldiers to their work; it was all horrible, detestable, inhuman. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Besides he would get rid of the premises, for at least one year, and along with them the proximity of his detestable neighbours. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Using material found on the Internet without proper attribution is a detestable corporate media practice. Daily Caller, Andrew Breitbart go after Glenn Beck for idea theft 2011-04-18T16:01:00Z You will understand that to the principals the whole thing—I mean the secular part of it—was absolutely detestable. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z Everything she heard of this man painted him in more detestable colors. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z “And in many others detestable,” said Beth in frank protest. Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z He must play on with his detestable rôle! Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z At what moment Malherbe observed that this was a detestable way of writing, and conceived the project of a great reversal of opinion, we do not know. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Unfortunately, they brought neither fish nor meat; instead, two sheets of that detestable blue paper, with red lines and rows of figures—an arithmetic not nice to be bothered with at one's breakfast. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z He was Mr Mathew, who tell of some contretemps of me and your word detestable, Box. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z Why, I could not endure the miserable struggles of the most loathsome and detestable and worthless insects. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Well—take them; I will consign them to your care until the detestable struggle is over! Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z It was detestable to her to hear the gallants of the court boasting of their conquests. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z This rivalship induced them to call in the assistance of the Sicilians—a measure which prepared the way for their subjection to the vigorous but detestable sway of the elder Dionysius, and of Agathocles. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The eloquent Bossuet endeavored to make verses, but they were detestable; he took care, however, not to declaim against great poets. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The much smaller stature and feebler constitution of the women is no doubt due to the detestable custom of crippling the feet in childhood, thereby depriving them of natural exercise during the period of growth. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z After which she would forget once and forever that such a being had ever lived, and seemed nice, and been detestable. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z They could not well do otherwise, however, since they are allied with those detestable groups in our midst who are preaching anarchy and revolution as a means to better government. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z But Harpagon is thoroughly detestable, and is in fact detested by his neighbours, domestics, and children. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It is only at the theatre that we sometimes see detestable compositions succeed both in tragedy and comedy. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z These detestable errors, whereby they think to destroy the truth of the divine Books, are obtruded on the world as the peremptory pronouncements of a newly-invented "free science." Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z She dyed her hair, rouged, dressed conspicuously, spoke eccentric English and detestable French, sang Judic's songs, and had been introduced to Roman society by the Marchese B---- who had met her at Nice. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z A native of a country which has been twice liberated from horrid p. 98and detestable thraldom by the hands of Englishmen. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z He was a much sharper lad than either Rawson or Pelly; he could have retorted again and again with crushing effect, but he held his tongue, for all such victories were detestable to him. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z This detestable spirit of rebellion is only too like that which infests many of our provinces. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Oh! that she could, instead of fulfilling this melancholy duty, have burned alive the detestable king of Egypt! Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z "Only too many of us would wish to follow your example," whispers Princess Vulpini, to whom this dinner at a Roman restaurant is detestable. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z I should be happy if I could say as much for our Irish brethren; but their conduct has been—oh, detestable! The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z There was a knowing, confidential flavour about Ferris's manner which was detestable. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z It was now about midnight, intensely cold, but very clear and bright, and the detestable north wind but a gentle breeze. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z But by the most detestable of all abuses, these foundations are for well-made persons. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z "Ah, of course she is surrounded somewhere by a crowd of detestable admirers!" he said to himself, and turned to go. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z On my third or fourth visit I managed to make the Italians talk about the English pedlar, who, they said, spoke a most detestable Italian. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z "It was as false, as detestable, as mistaken, and as insulting as all the other things I said that day," was his energetic answer. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z I thought it a detestable Custom.—But it was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong Beer that he might be strong to labour. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z But by the most detestable of all abuses, these foundations are for well-made persons. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Why he had thus decided that all her admirers were detestable we shall not attempt to explain. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Mesmer once inside a prison, he doubtless thought, the Landgrave might consider a dungeon—or a grave—the safest place for a man who possessed the secret of so detestable a transaction. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Aside from stoking a detestable interstate enmity, this thesis ignores the fact that state-to-state wealth transfers are already happening. State crises mean new language of deceit 2011-03-04T12:01:00Z All will contribute to encourage new governors in the same practice, and make the supreme government, detestable. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z All these detestable writings he committed to the flames, and went to pass the evening in walking. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z This taking money for the giving instruction in the sacred science or for the performance of sacred rites was the most detestable of crimes to all the true philosophers. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z I hate metaphysics myself;' and they have nothing to do with this, they are so dry and detestable. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z In some parts of Greece, in Athens notably, the lot of the slave was never quite so frightful as this, but it was still detestable. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z "And you have a detestable habit of interrupting me," her husband rejoins, angrily. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z This, indeed, was the only way to wean him from the detestable Clive-Hart, and others, whom he frequented. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Just fancy such a little bit of a thing like me being tied for life to a detestable old Bluebeard like Spider. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z We have begun the economy, Tom, and I hope that even you will be satisfied; for although this place is detestable to me, here I 'll stay, if my hearing can stand it, till winter. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z When I again embark as a passenger in a Dutch vessel, it will be after I have learnt to speak that detestable lingo. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Mrs. Vanhomrigh had two daughters: the eldest, Esther, was destined to be the second victim of Swift's detestable selfishness, and become celebrated under the name of Vanessa. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z I was detestable," said he; "but you know what a bear you have for a husband. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z Leave this detestable old house," he exclaimed impetuously, to Miss Hagar; "take Celeste over to Sunset Hall, and live with us. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Some blunder, I suspect, of this detestable Milo; and James will do nothing whatever. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The whole thing is in keeping, and quite detestable. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Of all the various classes and denominations of men who inhabit the terrestrial globe, the half-civilised savages peopling this sea-port, are perhaps the most thoroughly odious and detestable. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z But here the conflict between his artistic and family life which had arisen through his alliance with Natalie, came to light with more detestable clearness. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z Beautiful, accomplished, and in the very spring of life, she died a victim to the detestable character of her husband. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z That means a stepmother for me, and I think a stepmother is detestable.” Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge 2011-02-24T03:01:03.877Z She had a detestable craving for a uniform for May. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Here also I was once nearly being made eye-witness to a detestable duel. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Starting from the first of January, he has until July comes a good many days wherein he can amuse himself without the detestable feeling that he is wasting his time and robbing his family. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z Maternity was detestable, yet it carried responsibilities which might not be neglected. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Of the detestable Tiptoft he writes that “there flowered in virtue and cunning none like him among the lords of the temporalty in science and moral virtue”! Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z It's just through not being that, that so many rich women are—detestable. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z I cannot say how detestable and absurd this crime appeared in my eyes—such bloodshed to occur in civilised England appeared to me marvellous—in a country professedly Christian. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z This latter it may be too late to do after an acquaintanceship is formed with a man whose character is detestable in your eyes, provided he have a fair exterior. The Home Mission 2011-02-12T03:00:30.217Z I went to London hoping to escape thought, and never shall I forget what I endured in that detestable city. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z And when I returned you were gone,--gone to the wilderness,--for this Oberstein is no less,--and now here you sit in this detestable tobacco-smoke, smoking and laughing and joking. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z You can imagine, therefore, that fifty of them in one room, added to the smell of their tobacco, which is detestable, and the smoking and all its unmentionable consequences, drove me from the spot. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Its earnest appeals were calculated to touch the soul, and to make the very name of slavery and slave dealer detestable. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z In my heart I anathematised them as the most detestable screens ever interposed between a lover’s eye and its idol. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Aunt Priscilla's arguments, detestable though they be, are unhappily quite unanswerable. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Unfortunately, they brought neither fish nor meat; instead, two sheets of that detestable blue paper, with red lines and rows of figures—an arithmetic not nice to be bothered with at one’s breakfast. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Many consumers flocked to Groupon's official blog site, where they used words such as "tasteless," "tacky," "vulgar" and "detestable" to describe the ad. Groupon gains wrong kind of attention 2011-02-08T04:00:00Z |
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