| 单词 | execrable |
| 例句 | Though I was jolted by the ruts of the road, I was infinitely gratified to see that house— that execrable house—dwindle behind me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z All over Winter, even in frozen barbarian Perunter, it is considered execrably vulgar to talk business while eating. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And within a week, recalled one of his students, he had filled his office blackboard in LeConte Hall with “a drawing—very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Within perhaps a week,” recalled a student, “there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer’s office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z With the flight of the Loyalists onto ships, royal power in this execrable Colony is restricted into still more minute compass. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He deserved punishment but received worse — his gelding was but the pinnacle of multiple seasons’ worth, and counting, of physical and mental torture from the execrable Ramsay Snow. 'Game of Thrones': 9 Especially Gut-Wrenching Moments 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Jay-Z's attempts to snarl here don't fall quite as flat as his execrable Monster verse, but it still feels like second-hand paranoia, the kind of thing he's decided a Serious Artist should feel. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z Diehard fans of the "X-Files" television series will never forget Davis's portrayal of "The Smoking Man," the shadowy figure who was basically the personification of evil, conspiratorial thinking and execrable health habits. Weekend edition: actors who write books descend on Seattle 2012-09-06T20:37:17Z It earned execrable reviews and $56,825 at the box office. Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z I don't say that just because he's the director of the execrable Moulin Rouge and laughable Australia. May's reading group: The Great Gatsby 2013-04-29T13:15:10Z It’s a line that Mr. Malkovich might easily filch to excuse his participation in this execrable remarriage comedy, one that’s mystifyingly seeded with acting heavyweights. Review: Fifth Time’s Not the Charm in This ‘Wilde Wedding’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z By skipping a generation, Fox would essentially be giving up on ever making the definitive Fantastic Four movie that fans have been waiting for since Roger Corman’s execrable low-budget 90s effort. Is Fantastic Four the most mismanaged superhero franchise ever? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with its execrable record on women, didn’t induct her until 2017, two years before she retired from performing. Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Training Day was the exception; Fuqua's next film, the execrable Tears Of The Sun, accorded with the rule, as has everything he has made since, including and especially Olympus Has Fallen. Olympus Has Fallen is another dog of a film from Antoine Fuqua 2013-04-15T05:00:00Z She’s an inveterate world traveler who doesn’t drive, burdened with an execrable sense of direction. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The expansionism "is shown to be characterised by corruption, fraud, people-smuggling, endemic secrecy, cosying up to execrable regimes, and the brutal exploitation of its own and other countries' labour forces on a global scale." Book reviews roundup: Family Secrets, A Hologram for the King and China's Silent Army 2013-02-08T18:50:01Z The execrable romantic comedy “Some Kind of Beautiful” is the kind of embarrassment a studio dumps into the market in August while hoping no one will notice. Review: ‘Some Kind of Beautiful’ Stars Pierce Brosnan as a Serial Seducer 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Lowbrow, “popular” genres represent the opera’s execrable characters. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z For this first official release, the previously execrable sound has been remastered from a taping of a taping, and the results are still far from pleasant. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Over the years figure skating has come in for more than its fair share of criticism as a magnet for execrable design. Fashion Diary: At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Opening Ceremony Uniforms Looked One and the Same 2014-02-12T21:58:09Z There was human misery, too: the animals’ mahouts, doing this for lack of alternative employment, were – and generally still are – execrably paid and housed by the attraction owners. Thailand’s elephants say goodbye to the circus – and a life of cruelty 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z He made, or haplessly fronted for, some execrable decisions, but hating him took conscious effort. George W. Bush’s Painted Atonements 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z I continue to get a kick out of the lunatic musical juxtapositions on the show; the same episode featured a performance of the execrable 80s pop hit “Jessie’s Girl.” Theater Talkback: A Season of 'Glee' 2010-06-11T14:26:00Z Her parents are absent or execrable, she has no friends, and every disappointment is “one more nail” in the coffin of Jade’s dreams. Review | Stephen Graham Jones’s ‘My Heart Is a Chainsaw’ will delight horror movie fans 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Do we really need another movie about giant fighting robots after the execrable Transformers: Dark of the Moon? Will Hugh Jackman's Real Steel show us some mettle? 2011-08-26T16:04:14Z Some of the changes Congress made were political, like the excising of Jefferson’s fiery denunciation of the slave trade, which he described as an “execrable” commerce “where MEN should be bought & sold.” An Unrevised View of the Declaration of Independence 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Yet it's better than what follows: a breathy rendition of the Eurythmics' execrable There Must Be an Angel. Kylie Minogue ? review 2011-03-27T16:34:54Z A specially execrable example was the 1970s song It's No Longer I that Liveth, but Christ that Liveth in Me, showing that those who couldn't manage the grammar felt compelled to use it. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z “The Toy,” an execrable, tone-deaf comedy from 1982, is a notorious example of what happens when that strategy goes off the rails. Critic’s Notebook: A Richard Pryor Retrospective, ‘A Pryor Engagement,’ at BAM 2013-02-05T23:21:42Z All the controlled substances in the world couldn't improve a viewing of the execrable "Don Peyote," a tedious, incoherent look at a paranoid stoner's emotional and spiritual unraveling. In the unappealing 'Don Peyote,' end times can't come too soon 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “The Parent Trap” was such a success that “Let’s Get Together,” the execrable song that Mills was forced to sing in it, became a Top 10 hit. Review | Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls how it went from there. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Anyone thinking about taking this journey needs to be given a travel advisory: much of the prose is execrable. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z “Very simply, it’s our go-to text for responding to this administration’s harsh immigration restrictions and the execrable treatment of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexican border.” Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z As if that were not enough, Moss also "faithfully" vowed "not to publish too many of my execrable poems". Race hots up 2010-05-18T12:23:00Z A down-at-the-heels dandy who squandered his inherited fortune and now lives hand to mouth, he is a spiritual cousin of Cole Porter, whom Mr. Kline gracefully portrayed in “De-Lovely,” the otherwise execrable Porter screen biography. | 'The Extra Man': Kevin Kline Charms on New York Social Scene 2010-07-29T22:23:00Z The Washington Post called the film "an execrable catalog of doody jokes," while the New York Times sniffed that it "fully lives up to its name." 'Dumb and Dumber To' a no-brainer sequel 20 years in the making 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Those execrable three words are murmured by sorrowful elected officials in times of tragedy but rarely burdened with any actual plans or action. Perspective | The ‘commander in grief’ steps up to the microphone 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z “The cooking was execrable,” the celebrated Australian opera singer Nellie Melba said of the city’s hotels before the Savoy’s arrival. The History of a Palatial Hotel and Its Famous Guests, From Kings and Spies to Presidents and Poets 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Thus, Girlboss Marla is a profoundly execrable character — a warning for what happens when one's feminism is insular and detached from any larger moral universe. “I Care A Lot” is a stinging indictment of neoliberal “girlboss” feminism 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Seriously, no one should be disappointed that the execrable waste of talent that was “Now You See Me 2” didn’t deliver the magic of the first one. Worst of 2016: 10 movies that failed spectacularly to deliver on their promise 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “It’s easy to identify the outliers—the extraordinary restaurants and the execrable ones.” Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z It felt like a low blow from a film-maker whose own efforts to reinvent Star Wars, the execrable prequel trilogy, were received with derision by fans and critics alike. A modern space opera: has Star Wars escaped the George Lucas worldview? 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Last week in this column, I asked whether, 20 years after the execrable Phantom Menace was first shown in cinemas, it might be time to forgive George Lucas. Can no one hear us scream? Please Ridley, no more Alien films! 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The first posits the view that they inevitably suffer from the law of creative diminishing returns, hence the increasing poverty of the Alien series, which culminated in the execrable Aliens vs Predator films. Can Ridley Scott's Alien prequels be a new species of follow-up? 2010-10-14T14:33:00Z Let’s not even mention the two execrable Alien vs Predator spin-offs. Sorry, Ridley Scott: Sigourney Weaver is the only true Alien scream queen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z But then she has to ruin it by imagining God at a cocktail party, much like the execrable Joan Osborne once imagined God being "like a stranger on a bus". Regina Spektor – review 2012-07-07T23:05:38Z We want our children to stop, while giving ourselves an excuse to keep engaging in execrable behaviors indefinitely. Insidious political cliché alert: Stop saying it’s all about the kids 2014-04-21T22:59:00Z A Commando Mission for Millionaires “Soldiers of Fortune,” an execrable action thriller plopped into a few local theaters without screenings for critics, is one abortive military mission. Movie Review: ‘Soldiers of Fortune’ Stars Christian Slater 2012-08-05T21:33:18Z I cannot pretend to any objectivity when it comes to this subject, which was equally true from the opposite direction in the case of Clint Eastwood’s execrable “J. Edgar.” “Trumbo” and the long, dark shadow of the blacklist: How a Hollywood gossip columnist launched the culture wars 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Instead of thinking "This is so bad it's good", I thought, "This is so bad it's execrable": a futile exercise that people are trying desperately to make "fun". I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z He struggled on and off before enduring an August so execrable that some scouts were predicting he was destined for the bullpen, the rough equivalent of being put out to pasture for a starting pitcher. T Magazine: Little Big Man 2011-03-11T18:01:47Z An impossible proposal for writers of the River Plate: avoid the adjectives “ominous,” “inveterate,” and “execrable” for ten years. Andrés Neuman crosses boundaries across the Americas in 'How to Travel Without Seeing' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It would elevate the execrable ex-president, for all his myriad and many misdeeds, to stand astride the political and moral high ground. Column: Donald Trump is rotten and despicable — but that doesn't mean he should be kicked off the presidential ballot 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The Jan. 6 insurrection was the direct result of the execrable lie that Democrats had stolen the 2020 election from former President Trump. Opinion: Lies, damn lies and social media — there's a reason this country is so deeply polarized. 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z The two dominant issues are rampant crime and execrable public schools. Opinion | Chicago voters must choose further decline or a remedy for an ailing city 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps most infamous are the execrable stunts using human beings as pawns in DeSantis' unrelenting PR campaign to prove that he's the most odious governor in the United States. Ron DeSantis is tripling-down on the culture war — and running hard toward 2024 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The article pointed out a couple of “execrable” Glee episodes that were praised by nondisabled viewers but considered “offensive, appropriative and wildly inaccurate” by disabled audiences. 'Glee' alum Kevin McHale says he wouldn't play a character in a wheelchair now 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Why hire this partisan, the White House acting chief of staff for a time, who had such an execrable record of enabling his boss’s corruption and reinforcing his lies? Perspective | The galling cynicism of CBS News hiring Mick Mulvaney 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Even by the low standard established by the other Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who attacked Jackson, Sen. Ted Cruz's behavior stood out as especially execrable. Ted Cruz earns his "whiteness": The Republican attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Asked about Rogers’ execrable behavior, the governor replied — twice — “She’s still better than her opponent.” Column: Dealing with extremists, some Republican leaders find sorry is the hardest word 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z And the aforementioned Land, Air & Sea, in which the fish and chicken patties of the Filet-O-Fish and the McChicken, respectively, were inserted into a Big Mac, was truly execrable. Review | McDonald’s mashed-up menu hacks might be better left unmashed 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z So Andrew Jackson tried to strengthen democracy after his defeat in 1824, as execrable as some of his personal and political views were. Is Trump like Andrew Jackson? Yeah — in all the bad ways, and none of the good ones 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z These execrable gun-toting racists have received too much tacit encouragement from Trump. Opinion | I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may be forced to vote for him this year. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Given its execrable recent record, you’d think the Park Police would be doing everything in its power to regain the public’s trust and confidence. Opinion | U.S. Park Police at work: Shooting an unarmed man. Clubbing protesters. Resisting body cameras. 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z This telling valorized the Ku Klux Klan; cast even the most execrable Confederate officers as saints; and portrayed slavery as an idyll featuring loving masters who doted on happy black retainers. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Bad manners and execrable behavior can both be reflections of a disrespect for civilized norms by a bully invoking “history” as his alibi. Opinion | Time is on Taiwan’s side 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Or such senators can decide that this president’s deeds, regarding Ukraine and in frustrating congressional investigation thereof, are execrable but insufficient to justify truncating a presidential term that is almost 75 percent over. Opinion | Senators now risk indecent exposure of their minds 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Back in the benighted 20th century comic books were seen as subliterate trash for kiddies and intellectually challenged adults – badly written, hastily drawn and execrably printed. Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z And more recently, the execrable decision to duck the question of whether extreme partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Once the recipient of the French prize at college, I now speak an execrable but energetic French, full of unwarranted ambition. In Search of Ancient Morocco 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z He might want to be familiar with the term “execrable” - that’s a good one for this movie. Film Review: ‘House With a Clock’ is a real time suck 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Trump's execrable immigration policies continue to be enacted, with the courts only shutting down some of the very worst excesses. Bombshell revelations about the Trump White House: It’s even worse than we feared 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Sure, it’s a big joke, we can laugh at it, but the underlying part is kind of not funny: hiring Omarosa and giving her White House insider access showed absolutely execrable judgment. There’s tapes: Omarosa shares secretly-recorded audio from the White House 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z As with a rotting fish, the stench from President Trump’s execrable performance in Helsinki only grows more putrid with the passage of time. Opinion | The stench from Trump’s execrable performance grows ever more putrid 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Yes, the utterly execrable performance of what the GOP has become is reason enough to vote for anything as an alternative. ‘They Can’t Wait to Vote’: Energized Democrats Target Dominant G.O.P. in Statehouses 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z They said what the Supreme Court would say in its execrable 1857 Dred Scott decision — that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document. Opinion | Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z But, he wrote, “you will do well to try to inoculate the Indians, by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.” Perspective | Changing a nickname seems like a seismic shift, but it’s rarely a Mammoth deal 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z However, it was execrable anyway, and his co-star Natalia Tena will surely be glad to see this buried, and be remembered instead for her audaciously spiky, muddy role in Game of Thrones. What next for the TV shows caught in the post-Weinstein crossfire? 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z I like Charlie Dent a lot but he's flat wrong: there's a lot more to this than Trump, execrable as he is. Suburbs Rebel Against Trump, Threatening Republicans in Congress 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z All they care about is absolute power, and if that comes along with the execrable Trump, then so be it. Following Trump’s Lead, Republicans Grow Quiet on Guantánamo 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z This was not Harvard’s only execrable recent decision. Shame on Harvard for welcoming Sean Spicer – but spurning Chelsea Manning | Francine Prose 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z A few days after these troubling poll numbers were published, Trump made his series of execrable comments following the murder of a young woman in Charlottesville by a white supremacist. Charlottesville, transgender troops and the 24 Percent Salvation Army 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Then there’s the execrable headline about young Muslims being ‘‘time bombs.’’ Down the Breitbart Hole 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z This execrable, homicidal bill must obviously be stopped. Donald Trump's homicidal healthcare bill will kill some, and enrich others | Adam Gaffney 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Here are just some of them: “unacceptable”, “inexcusable”, “thrown down the drain”, “horrible”, “calamity”, “execrable,” “absurd”, “useless”, “bad joke” and “lamentable”. Real Madrid make big point as Barcelona shoot themselves in the foot – again | Sid Lowe 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Even more execrable than his heinous travel ban has been Trump’s relentless assault on truth and on the media and the judiciary – the very institutions most responsible for safeguarding truth in a democracy. Lying got Michael Flynn fired. But that's what the Trump White House does best | Lawrence Douglas 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z From America’s perspective, New Start is an execrable deal, a... Trump’s New Start With Russia May Prove Better Than Obama’s 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Their miserable form continued with last week’s execrable goalless draw against Middlesbrough at Vicarage Road and they will struggle to stay away from danger if this goes on much longer. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Trump’s win in North Carolina is an awful footnote to an execrable state of affairs, a sign that the past maintains a grip here and beyond. The Trump Campaign in North Carolina 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z As the Home Counties magazine put it: “The whole was such an execrable performance that ridicule killed it”. Into Orbit: my dizzying drop down the world's biggest slide 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In a telegram to the U.S. president, the king said he was "deeply affected" by what he described as "an execrable act contrary to all the principles of democratic co-existence." The Latest: Obama going to Orlando to pay respect to victims 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z In a telegram to the U.S. president, the king said he was “deeply affected” by what he described as “an execrable act contrary to all the principles of democratic co-existence.” The Latest: Obama going to Orlando to pay respect to victims 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z In a February statement issued by university, Starr said "our hearts break for those whose lives are impacted by execrable acts of sexual violence." Ken Starr and Art Briles Are Out at Baylor 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In a February statement issued by university, Starr said, "Our hearts break for those whose lives are impacted by execrable acts of sexual violence." Baylor says 'Ken Starr is president' amid speculation 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z This does not take away from the fact that he has made some rather execrable statements throughout his campaign. Donald Trump could be most Oscar-worthy president 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement For the time being, the Haggler will root for taxis, but spend money with Uber and its rivals, until the last of those execrable squawk boxes have been scrapped. Looking Back at a Year of Haggling 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z But the Los Angeles Lakers, with their clueless play, matched the Sixers for execrable play. 76ers Finally Have a Victory. But Do They Really Have a Plan? 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Will calls the book “a no-facts zone,” and condemns it as “nonsensical history and execrable citizenship.” George Will’s had enough lying: His battle with Bill O’Reilly is finally an intellectual battle to reclaim the GOP from Fox News 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z From a critical perspective, Stewart takes a few knocks thanks to the execrable reputation of the Twilight series. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's road to stoner stardom, in graphs 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Cox: I want to support Nicki, someone I think is a great musician and a general force for good, but this song is execrable. This year's most important songs (so far): summer jams and chart slams 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z One reason that so many Democratic candidates so often fail to say much of anything substantial is that they prefer, instead, to wait for their Republican opponents to say something execrable. The Democrats Flunk Their Midterms 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z While Harris’ alleged crime is inarguably execrable, I find myself even more appalled by what those onlookers did — or more, accurately, did not do. Courageous or spineless? Our actions, or inactions, decide 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z An execrable electoral video depicting the Liberal Democrats as the gullible stooges of evil Tory toffs collided head-on with Mr Miliband’s talk of making politics less petty. Running out of road 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Blame this foray into recent history on a recent execrable piece from Yahoo!’s national political columnist and former New York Times Magazine scribe Matt Bai. Bush revisionism is back: Why this latest, pathetic attempt is so dangerous 2014-05-10T12:15:00Z The standards of patent-granting agencies tend to range from mediocre to execrable, and from incomprehensible to inconsistent. The Intellectual Property System Is an Impenetrable Maze 2013-11-15T16:45:00.420Z Food was execrable, staff were on miserly pay, constantly changing and far from perfect — and one day Betty said to Mavis: "I wish they wouldn't hit me so often." The sick in care homes suffer and those in charge swan off with platinum handshakes 2013-06-24T16:02:47Z All the statistics released about the Work Programme show execrable results, and yet we've heard nothing about penalties, or remaking the contracts, or rethinking the system. This Poundland ruling is a welcome blow to the Work Programme 2013-02-12T15:02:00Z Given their execrable record at Everton, the situation is unlikely to get better any time soon. Saturday clockwatch – live! 2012-11-10T14:10:01Z As a fitness regime, Just Dance ranks a fair way above the execrable Zumba game, and it cannily offers its own Latin-style workout. Just Dance 4 2012-10-05T14:55:49Z And when I say that Apple Maps are awful, this word doesn’t begin to describe just how bad, how execrable, how utterly loathsome these maps are. iOS 6 Maps Make Me Feel Like I Live On Pluto 2012-10-02T09:02:17Z Second, should companies be paying for advertising with Content ID matching that is currently juxtaposing their brands with execrable content? Google and YouTube have got to show more Adsense 2012-08-16T10:48:35Z Might that explain the utterly execrable colour scheme? The worst Olympics ever: Britain wins no medals in time-keeping 2012-08-05T22:46:29Z And when the execrable working conditions prevalent in such places are exposed, the company's senior executives profess themselves surprised and appalled and resolve to do everything they can to ameliorate things. New-tech moguls: the modern robber barons? 2012-06-30T23:04:09Z It makes for lousy television, but it reveals quite a bit about why there is so much execrable advertising. Review: 'The Pitch,' AMC's Other Show About Advertising 2012-05-24T21:57:53Z Levelling upwards is laudable; levelling downwards is execrable. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z In the conduct of Esau, we see the triumph of time, of filial affection, and generosity over a deep sense of execrable treachery, unprovoked and irrevocable injury.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The stirrup-leathers, especially if heavy, as they should be, often hurt the knee, if you are new to the saddle, and perhaps are the main inducement to this execrable habit. Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z Not only its "execrable" terrorism, but the very attempt to carry bourgeois rule to extremes. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z 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 When finally the excellent highway was left behind, and they started on the last lap of their seventy-mile ride, they found the parish roads execrable and the going slow. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z Conflicts without number rage over the possession of benefices, plurality of which is coveted by an execrable ambition. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z You will know the French by those flaring coats, laid clear back on their shoulders, and their execrable hats and thin legs. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Nor are these the only well-attested instances of such execrable inhumanity. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z 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 "If the dull rogue hath discovered his prisoner's birth, how is this that he dares to think that when free he would let so great a traitor live, after such an execrable proposition?" The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China 2012-03-18T02:00:17.620Z Nancy was kept busy telling Anne-Marie in Italian not to stare at the two little girls, who seemed to fascinate her by their execrable behaviour. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Laugh, laugh, let us both laugh at those execrable people who drink blood! The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z Without the slightest change of expression he stopped and confronted his enemy, addressing him by name, in the execrable French of the average Englishman. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Varolius was decreed an infamous and execrable man for his anatomical discoveries, and our immortal Harvey was looked upon as a dangerous madman. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z This was an execrable blunder in the circumstances, and the results were fatal to the national cause. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The host of the little inn had not exaggerated; the road was execrable. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Republicanism was in execrable taste--a subject for contemptuous laughter on the part of the provincial seigneurie. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z And the execrable Alga� had insisted on the cakes, declaring that if you are fond of a particular cake, you will indulge in several before any little peculiarity can manifest itself. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z These are the temperaments that have urged men both to noble and to execrable deeds. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Courcel says the Emperor, Prince Imperial, and Bismarck all want to see W.—he also warns him that Bismarck is in an execrable humor. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z In downright English the administration of government and law is execrable, and there can be little hope of a resurrection for Persia until the system under which she is impoverished be reformed or swept away. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z They did not carry it out either, and finally the law became so contemptible, so execrable, that everybody despised it. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z One of his successors, Victor III., declared that the life of Benedict was so shameful, so foul, so execrable, that he shuddered to describe it. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z I really hope for you that you are in town, which has resources and defences against this execrable August that the bare bosom of Nature, as we mainly know it here, sadly lacks. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Still, I should fancy he was telling them something amusing in execrable Castilian, by the way they are laughing. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z It took me an hour, even with Mr. Browne's help, to count 8s. in this truly execrable money. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z If I have anathematized the ministers of the Inquisition, it is because so execrable an establishment does not exist under heaven. L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses 2012-01-19T03:00:20.593Z I feel my head so stupid, my hand so disobedient, my pen so execrable, my ink such a mudpond, that I ought in mercy to save you the trouble of deciphering more. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z At the time we were all more or less swamped by the discomforts of our wintry flights from town to town, execrable hotels, irregular and unsatisfying meals. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z The leader of this execrable gang was Col. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z In this manner was accomplished two most execrable acts of treachery, to which parallels can not be found in any page of the world's history. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z Such is the origin of the Inquisition, a tribunal so execrable, that it threatened to drown the human race in blood. L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses 2012-01-19T03:00:20.593Z For a moment I thought the doctor guilty of execrably bad taste in making a joke of the matter; then I saw that he was in sober earnest. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z He calls Carteret execrable now, but, when the battle is over, takes pride in declaring that to his patronage, to his friendship, to his instruction 'I owe whatever I am.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z It ended by his being taken out and seated in a hack, while the other, in angry execrable and fluent Spanish, told the driver where to proceed. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The boy turned up his canvas—an execrable daub. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z An unconditional surrender was made to Napoleon, and thus fell one of the most execrable tyrannies this world has ever known. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z He cracked his whip as he did all things—execrably; and, when his wrist was suddenly and firmly seized from behind, the shock served the young ruffian right. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z Thus he began the strewing of words upon the paper, in the execrable handwriting and at the phenomenal speed which have become traditions of that office, where each has remained unrivaled in the paper's annals. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z These roads, as compared with others, were good; and execrably bad as we might now think them, they were probably not altogether ill adapted to riding. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z It would be too execrable, if it were true. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z I returned, in an execrable humor, to the balcony, but this time nearer the box. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z All he can do is to say that what was "relatively excusable" among the Jews is at present "execrable," and is now "absolutely and for ever wrong." The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z The wine-cask had got through all its troubles; it was tapped, and the Frenchmen seemed to derive some consolation from its execrable contents. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z To this road, which, in comparison with the other, had at one time been pronounced good and was now pronounced execrable, Telford proceeded to apply the same principles as before. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Sometimes he forgot himself so far as to kiss her before company, which was execrable form; and by dint of sentimentality and caresses he had succeeded in making himself insufferable to her. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z "My good Jules!" protested Radwalader, "pardon the license of an old friend, who begs to suggest that your interruption is in most execrable taste!" The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Luther was not a scholarly man; his addresses were to the masses; his Latin was execrable. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Pitt called him “an execrable, a sole minister who had renounced the British nation.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z I was no great scholar myself, but his French was execrable; he had studied it when a boy, but for more than ten years had not spoken a word. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z But to strike a woman, to inflict bodily suffering on a weak creature to whom we have owed the most delicious of joys!—oh! that is infamous, execrable! Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Good coarse bread, the most modest nourishment with execrable wine composes my repasts. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z The only drawback was the Cook's tourists who were riding and walking and talking all over the place, making jokes with the guides and speaking the most execrable Italian. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z This hill was one of the worst obstacles met with between London and Bath in the old times, and its steepness was then rendered more difficult by reason of the execrable surface of the road. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z One of the most distinguished laymen in the Rouen congregation, Porrée the physician, declared that "all true Protestants abhorred that execrable parricide." The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Harry was ordinarily a tolerable shot, but to-day he shot execrably. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z The way was fairly good in some parts, and execrably bad in others. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z My taste in ties, I am assured, is execrable. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z The most execrable of woodcuts could hardly disguise what she saw. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Now, his name suggests to us only that of his execrable father, and reminds us that the blood running in his veins is that of Philip Egalit�. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Upon attempting to read the manuscript I at first found myself puzzled by a style of chirography very peculiar and characteristic, but execrably bad. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Anna had played execrably, to Suzette’s despair: she could not even remember the winning trumps! Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z Yet he pronounces the killing of such a dangerous monster to be a most execrable deed. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z "That execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the slave trade." A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z An act of perfidy or immorality committed by a priest, under the jurisdiction of a bishop, merits execration, and should receive it; but if committed by the bishop himself, would become still more execrable. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z His policy, both domestic and foreign, was base, treacherous and execrable. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z And this is for the Emperor, thy father, who, with his execrable proclamations and edicts, first sounded for our land the stroke of the evil hour. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z In short there is nothing so execrable as our most taking tragedies. 1st Play. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z Well! if I have been deceived in the cheese, I have at p. 14any rate not been deceived in the ale, which I expected to find execrable. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z His beauteous form Is now a monster execrable, by God And Spirit and man e'er to be cursed. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The design of the papal See of reducing England to a state of vassalage, conceived in ambition, pursued by craft and cruelty, was thus consummated by the most execrable tyranny. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z From me they can expect no grace, whose minds An execrable superstition blinds. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z "What a pity!" cried Jacob in German, not wishing to inflict the French language on his interlocutor, and desiring also to escape torture himself from the execrable pronunciation of the compatriot of Goethe. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z And for this execrable crime the King has condemned them all, without regard to age or sex, to suffer the appropriate penalties—all except a few here and there that are exempted by name. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z I have had to do with men of all countries; I never saw any who had so bad a physiognomy, and a more execrable conversation. 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 That their conduct and principles are of the most execrable description, the history of all nations affords melancholy evidence. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z All the prisoners were in great agitation; the truth is, the food was execrable. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Not sorry to repeat what he wished should be fully comprehended, Harleigh, more composedly, recounted his intelligence; dwelling upon details which brought conviction of the seizure, the trial, and the execution of the execrable commissary. The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z She was too lively a reminder of the execrable period which he did his best to banish from his own memory as well as from that of the public. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Dunois, the least depraved of all, felt the pangs of remorse and could not decide to remain an accomplice in the execrable scheme of betrayal. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Besides these intermeddlings with the national affairs of all governments, the Catholic church assails all non-Catholics with the most execrable persecution, openly when she dares, secretly when she must. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Henry Tyler, with execrable taste, dragged in the name of a lady with whom Mr. Bradlaugh is associated in business. The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle 2011-09-12T02:00:28.837Z He had spent the Sabbath in open sin upon the new-made links, and had been fitly punished by his own execrable play. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z I wouldn’t dwess in such execrable taste for any sum you could mention—no, sir!” The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z The tremolo is an abomination—it is execrable. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z On it were these words, "From this window Charles IX. of execrable memory fired on the citizens of Paris." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z I am deceived if anything could sooner defeat this execrable design of Wood and his accomplices. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z And there it stuck, as though these questions were indeed unanswerable; the fact being, there was another still to come, which, however, involved an execrable couplet as it stood. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z "Thou art the most vile and execrable traitor that ever lived." Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z The world abounds with knaves and villains; but of all knaves, the religious knave is the worst; and villainies acted under the cloak of religion are the most execrable. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z I find your 'Crucifixion' an execrable performance, you find it beautiful. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z The only wonder is, how these artists were able to prevail upon numbers, and influence even public assemblies, to become instruments for effecting their execrable designs. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z Mr. Wade was a lame and halting speaker, whose thoughts moved slowly, and whose diction was execrable. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Admitting that you behaved never so execrably at the end, yet I can't bring myself to look upon it with bitterness. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z There are several fairly good hotels here, where the charges are moderate and the domestic conveniences execrable! Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The Prince talked as they made their way to an execrable road by crossing a narrow-gauge railway. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Flattered, though enraged at this excuse, the poet abused the editor till he explained that his poetry was execrable, but he had sought to conceal the truth in his rejection. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Jim had delighted the little party by translating into his execrable French football terms to describe his idea of how the war should be conducted. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z Are we supposed to condone the execrable behaviour of a media mogul's employees just because he happens to keep alive two loss-making newspapers? Phone hacking: Elstein defends the indefensible to preserve fake plurality 2011-07-14T09:35:32Z In brief, the thing was execrably, hopelessly, irredeemably bad all over and clear through. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z "You now see yourself how execrable are your stringent laws, my conscientious good sir drost," he said; "you certainly thought not of a lover's haste when you ordered this bridge-barring." The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Would those execrable Glovers have left by the time he returned? Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z This execrable act of mine’s without a parallel. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z 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 Just now, with their unthinking brains sick with the poison of labor's impossible argument, and the execrable liquor of the camp, they were a hundred times more deadly. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z When the team being foisted on the public is something like this execrable mess that spent most of the season with the worst defense and highest ERA in the bigs. Wrigley critics missing the point 2011-06-14T13:54:00Z She was very pretty, they said, but execrably poor. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Untidiness is execrable, reprehensible, unseemly, and quite detestable. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z O execrable portrait! why had my master not my eyes when he took thee into his hands? The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z Then, bending towards his dear, adorable, and execrable wife, his inevitable and pitiless muse, he kissed her respectfully upon the hand, and added, "Ah, dear angel, how I thank you for my skill!" The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The Nile itself, according to the testimony of Christian writers, was worshipped with the most obscene and execrable rites, even Sodomitical practices. Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z Your future may be very good, but your past has been execrably bad. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z His execrable temper had belittled his own generosity. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z His moral tone generally is low, and often it is execrable. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I am afraid we must now quit the country altogether, as the country; not however without mentioning that now begins that most execrable of all practices, Angling. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z What we get from it consists chiefly in some purgative aloes, a little indifferent wool, and a good deal of execrable wine, on the importation of which we pay a virtual bounty! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z The choice was execrable, the very idea of naming a delegate faulty. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z He urged the adoption of immediate and energetic measures to arrest these execrable deeds of lawless violence. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z The pretext for this execrable cruelty is, that the skin comes off more easily, and is found more durable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z The selections were execrable; the fierce tempo at which the instruments were driven had caused an alarming increase in insanity, in proof of which he adduced statistics. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Up the mountains they marched him, by one of those execrable roads common in the Papal States, kept, no doubt, in better condition in the time of the Caesars than at the present day. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Du Bartas possessed qualities of intellect and art which are by no means to be despised, but his taste was execrable. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Never did any one earn more deservedly a reputation as an execrable dancer than I did that evening. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The climate is execrable; cold and stormy, with heavy rains and violent falls of snow. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Pope Alexander VI. was a more execrable tyrant than any of these, and he was fortunate in all his undertakings. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z That day, the champion from Australia shot execrably, which was inexplicable; and he kept for ever casting sudden glances over his shoulders, and on all sides of him, which was absurd. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z A letter of “Loan by Privy Seal” even more execrable both as to grammar and diction than the documents emanating from Royalty at the present day—and that is admitting much. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z His handwriting is execrable and his style most tedious,--and--and I hurried off to the Avenue Lab�doy�re. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z An officer came to the railing and answered their inquiries in execrable English. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z These execrable mysteries," he says, "which the more impure they are, the more carefully they are hid, are common to the Manichæans and to the Priscillianists. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Poor Laurence Pinckney, however, had hit nothing at all; and, indeed, his shooting must be execrable, to judge by what one hears. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z I declare, as things are going, helped along by that execrable charter of 1814, we are marching towards another '93! 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 Is it I that confine him every day,—that shut those execrable doors upon him? Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z This was execrable jurisprudence, and even Mr. Cass, who was really the father of the idea of home rule in the Territories, dissented from it, and voted for Mr. Chase's amendment. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z So execrably bad is this system, that postal officers of high standing have estimated that not more than one-third of the postage properly chargeable on newspapers is accounted for and paid over. History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America 2011-03-14T03:01:03.623Z Of this pontiff, one of his successors, Victor III, declared that his life was so shameful, so foul, so execrable, that he shuddered to describe it. The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History 2011-03-09T03:00:46.980Z As for you, my daughter—as for you, my son-in-law—I shall denounce your execrable complot to my friends of the mad-men's party, to Hebert, to James Roux the disfrocked priest, to Varlet. 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 "Then a trembling voice pierces the vault, and articulates the formula of those execrable oaths that are to be sworn: my pen falters: I think myself almost guilty to retrace them." The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The mutton, of the Cape breed, is indifferent, and the beef execrable. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z To relate the evil men do, or describe their weaknesses, is not only objectionable, it is in every way execrable. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z The roads were throughout so execrably bad, that no words can give you an idea of them. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z O execrable son, so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given! White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z This event was followed by an unusual amount of execrable elegiac verse, which was powerless, however, to throw ridicule on what it affected to solemnize. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z Unfortunately, he understood no German, the soldiers no English, and they were obliged to carry on their conversation in the most execrable French--a very difficult and tedious proceeding. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z "You see I am giving myself full tether in this execrable land," he said. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z That comes from this execrable system of business! Partners A Novel. 2011-02-02T03:00:20.690Z The Pagans in Arnobius speak of Christianity as "an execrable and unlucky religion, full of impiety and sacrilege, contaminating the rites instituted from of old with the superstition of its novelty." An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z But unlike the writer thereof Lord Anthony Dewhurst neither stormed nor raged: he did not even tear the execrable letter into an hundred fragments. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Souls, until then innocent, no longer recoil before any passion however execrable, the bare thought of which is a crime! The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z To compare financial assistance from Berlin to a concentration camp is, of course, of dubious logic and execrable taste. A Weak Euro Gives Germany More Power 2011-01-23T05:00:00Z How can you set such store by the people of those times, when they had such execrable manners? Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z Even by the modern standards of first-round women's tennis, this is execrable. Australian Open 2011: Gulf in class makes women the biggest losers 2011-01-18T10:55:19Z In this year Louis XIV, the execrable King of France, died. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z The youth and beauty of the maid of honor only rendered her criminal designs all the more execrable in their eyes. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z As to Colette, the pet child of the family, by turns charming and execrable, she counts seventeen summers, and rejoices our eyes with the sweetest face ever seen, a rose-bud complexion, and cornflower eyes. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z An execrable pun, I know: but"—turning toward Mrs. Glendinning—"when one is made to feel very happy, one is somehow apt to say very silly things. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z This was certainly an execrable policy in that regicide. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z "After what I have just learned, there is hardly any room left to doubt the execrable iniquity that is about to be perpetrated," put in Monsieur Tilly. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z There I witnessed an even more execrable scene. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The boy must also be a prisoner, they must be torturing him too and immolating him, like his mother, on the altars of the execrable gods. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The picture was pretty; but the great genius of Percy Popjoy had deserted him, for he had made the most execrable verses which ever were perpetrated by a young nobleman. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z The Penal law was execrable; yet hardly more execrable than the Great Act of Attainder. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z As I had a journey of four or five days before me—the distance being 140 miles over execrable roads—the fellow was invaluable to me. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Read, O, sons of Joel, the narrative of this execrable ceremony, transmitted by a spectator, an ardent Catholic and fervent royalist, Dom Felibien. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z To this end, by his secret emissaries, he enticed some hot-headed men of that persuasion, who, ignorant whence the design first came, heartily engaged in this execrable Powder Treason.... What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence 2011-01-03T03:01:06.770Z Siméon Diodokis, the execrable demon who, two days before, had hatched the terrible plot and, bending over the skylight, had laughed as he watched their awful agony! The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z At first it was bravado, recklessness, persuasion; later it was desire, torture, flight from the qualms of his conscience, “the forgetfulness, sought in execrable potions.” Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z There appears to be a belief that he might "Foxify" Sky News by turning it into a British version of his execrable US outlet, Fox News. Sorry Rupert, money is power and your BSkyB deal could threaten rivals 2010-10-12T11:44:00Z In the race for the GOP gubernatorial nod, conservative challenger Carl Paladino cashiered former Congressman Rick Lazio, the party favorite, despite an execrable campaign that has spooked Party leaders. Primary Round-Up: A Tea Party Triumph (Or Two) Is a Win For Dems 2010-09-16T19:30:00Z His shooting was execrable; he could hardly make out the dark blotch that was his target as, astonished and silent, she circled round him. H.M.S. —— You wrote, ‘he who moves and pulls down the boundaries of the fathers is execrable’. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII But so execrable a crime could not pass unpunished, and he was tortured by the Furies until he retired to Arcadia, where he married Alphisibaus. Heathen Mythology It was more than he deserved, however, Morice explained in a few words of execrable Breton, enforcing each syllable with a kick. A Blot on the Scutcheon Orders execrable stuff himself, as I often tell him. By Birth a Lady In spite of everything, we are pushing forward, and eventually shall have our reward; but for the time being this would be ample could we only reach land and land-ice without these execrable lanes. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 It was for these devilish things, made by the hand, injurious and execrable, that God condemned their worship. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII He wanted to find out how his execrable joke was getting along, of course! Stranded in Arcady With some difficulty, for he was a native, and spoke French execrably, he explained that there were some gentlemen below who desired to speak with Lord St. Maurice. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 "Really, madame, I marvel to see how the most execrable projects may be coloured, so as to pass for beautiful pictures!" The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 In truth," continued Rodolph, "men sometimes display a humility most shameful and an egotistical pride which is only execrable. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 That the bishop is very fair, but the tarts execrable. Barbarossa and Other Tales The water which we had to use and drink here was simply execrable. Reminiscences of service with the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, and a memorial of Col. George H. Browne There's the riband, silk, or jewel, Fashion's whims are oft absurd; This is execrably cruel; Leave his feathers to the bird! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 An execrable road system, besides bringing poor schools and poor churches, has rendered impossible any genuine community of social interests among country people. The Future of Road-making in America I passed over his execrable joke with gravity, so as not to appear to see it. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I When the execrable vessel came to a halt, and breathless and dignified faces peered upon her decks from above, a sudden bustle was observed. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories At the time, however, she grieved to think of her noble companion doomed to waste the best years of his life in execrable confinement. Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch Again she had not uttered a word of condemnation of the execrable doings of progress, and it grieved him deeply. The Progressionists, and Angela. He imparted little more information during the long drive, and Milbanke had to sit under his dripping umbrella with as much patience as he could muster while they ploughed forward over an execrable road. The Gambler A Novel This execrable superstition, they say, was brought to Rome by two brothers named Paulus and Simon Magus. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs "Where does Cashel get such execrable champagne?" said an infantryman, with a very wry expression of face. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) "It is a crime as execrable to expose a child as to kill him." The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them I could divide selfish men into two classes: the man with good redeeming features, and the execrably selfish man. Rambles in Womanland Simon himself could no longer endure this execrable sensation of earthquake, this vertigo of the human being losing his foothold. The Tremendous Event I have had them come to me with voices that are obviously execrable and still remain unconvinced when I have told them what seemed to me the truth. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The sun has spots, and we once knew a critic whose grammar was execrable. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. "Oui," he said, in French, which his execrable English accent rendered more brutal. Shadows of Flames A Novel As I have said, this type of selfish man is execrable. Rambles in Womanland And yet there is no more execrable passion on earth than demagogue-passion on the one hand, and mob-passion on the other. The Book of This and That Hannah, who had recovered her health and usefulness in a miraculous manner, since her master's quarrel with the Captain, at any rate showed an English appetite while discussing the execrable mess. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. The Crusades against the Saracens were preached by the Church, and the same Church is now stirring up anew the same execrable passions against the provinces that have withdrawn themselves from the tyranny of Rome. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades He was interesting, too, in describing the country through which he had passed, and made vivid to them the small town up-state with its shaded streets, its growing shops, its dingy hotel and execrable service. The Shadow You're wasting valuable time, failing to improve your execrable tennis, and demeaning yourself into the bargain. Years of Plenty Thus the fish was excellent, and the mutton perfect, while the fricandeau was atrocious, and the petits p�t�s execrable. Jack Hinton The Guardsman In short, the poor woman bore a most execrable reputation; and Doctor Johns, good as he was, took rather a secret pride in such startling confirmation of his theories in respect to French character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Your arm would never rest until the last one of the execrable and infected beings is dead, and has carried the last germ of the frightful disease into his tomb. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Thus they became emboldened and finally ventured to put their execrable principles into practice. The Greater Republic A History of the United States An execrable man met me on the deck, with a pale-blue pamphlet fifty pages thick. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Then they will gesticulate with the orators, and rise out of the tomb, or the sea, and soar among the clouds, in the execrable taste of the last century. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History The most revolting, execrable details are essential to its vigorous execution. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 The calf, if calf there be, is probably a symbol of the execrable heresy of Darazi, who is frequently styled the calf by his Orthodox opponents. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" These municipal displays, either from stupidity or malice, were mostly in execrable taste. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) From the depths of the heart abhorring the odious, execrable man, whilst our fancy hovers, fascinated, about the marvellous creation! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The Indians had been made so familiar with the English, as to borrow their boats and canoes to cross the river in, when they went to consult with their neighboring Indians upon this execrable conspiracy. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts The execrable ferocity of the details of war are essential to the system. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Then, in execrable French, "What can be done with such a young savage as this?" Anne Having some time since assassinated a President of the Republic because he was a patriot, they were getting rid of the accomplices and witnesses of their execrable crime. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Burk, in his History of Virginia, has stigmatized Clayborne as "an unprincipled incendiary" and "execrable villain;" other writers have applied similar epithets to him. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia The soul!" echoed the Master contemptuously; "the most execrable imposture with which the world has ever been befooled! The Tower of Dago The host of the little inn had not exaggerated—the road was execrable. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The mists with which it was sought to shroud these execrable crimes are now dissipated. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty I have already hinted elsewhere that the cuisine at the Tuileries during Louis-Philippe's reign was execrable, though the wine was generally good. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections He remembered that Déruchette was rich, and that he was poor: and then the new boat appeared to him an execrable invention. Toilers of the Sea Why strike the innocent and tender, as if they were execrable? Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Even the blind man, with his offering of execrable poetry, was unknown, and the conductor examined our tickets from outside the window. An American Girl Abroad But minds were so overexcited at the time that the parties mutually accused each other, on all occasions, of the most execrable crimes. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty "But," the Northern people may exclaim, "in case of such an execrable violation of justice, we would revolt,—we would"——Ah! but in whose hands would then be "the war power"? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 But the supper was so unpalatable and unclean a meal, that hungry as I was, I fain amused myself the while, puffing cigarillos, catching fleas, and drinking execrably sour country wine. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia The Hon. Percy Popjoy, a regular contributor to that fashionable publication, had sent in a poem which Mr. Bacon's reader condemned as too execrable to inflict upon the public. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 "There goes the flunkey's runner," he remarked, in execrable taste, and Mr. Spokesly was obliged to ignore him. Command "I beg you," he cries, "tell us your name."—"I ought to conceal my name," replies the officer; "unfortunately for me, it is the same as that of an execrable man." Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty All the prophylactic expedients whereby a reciprocal egoism must safeguard its sensuous rights would certainly be there; and they represent in spirit and in practice whatever we have learned to consider execrable. Modern Substitutes for Christianity This has always confirmed my belief that if the victims of that period of execrable memory had not had the noble pride of dying with fortitude the Terror would have ceased long before it did. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun My Russian is poor enough, but his was execrable. The Red Symbol It is thy allies, thy friends, thy brothers in Christ and in God who commit these execrable deeds. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Human nature had never appeared under a more execrable aspect than since its so-called regeneration. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty For miles they jolted over the execrable roads and through the shiftless, run-down country before they found anything worth while putting in the wagons. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro Castanet came forward: "Will you, beloved, honoured brethren, deliver the execrable wretches up into my hands?" asked he, looking round the circle. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. There were few roads across the mountains, and these few were execrable—so bad, indeed, that it was impossible for the backwoodsmen to bring their corn and rye to market, except in a concentrated form. Our Southern Highlanders And the more he thought the matter over and looked at the picture, the more he was convinced that it was an execrable daub. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II I could hear him cry, "A wicked rogue;" "An execrable wretch;" "Was there ever such a monster?" The Tatler, Volume 3 To begin with, he had never seen a woman more execrably dressed. The Return of the Prodigal "Decidedly," thinks Monica to herself, "he has either neuralgia or an execrable temper." Rossmoyne The coffee in the station-house, fortunately, was execrable, and this stirred him to a pitch which soon made him the ablest patrolman in his ward. The Crow's Nest The rhymes were execrable, but that did not matter 259 since almost nobody could understand them; and the main point was to come out strong on the chorus. Betty Wales Freshman Several years ago he brought out an opera on the stage, which was fearfully hissed; but that hasn't cured him of his mania for writing execrable music. Weird Tales. Vol. I Of this pontiff, one of his successors, Victor III., declared that his life was so shameful, so foul, so execrable, that he The papacy bought at auction A.D. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Our own detestation of those who have attempted the most execrable measures recorded in the history of guilty man is tempered by profound contempt for the impotent rage which it discloses. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War I jumped out and went up to the Army Medical Officer and delivered a frontal attack, discharging execrable French. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Possessing that a company is pretty sure to have a successful culinary department; and just this makes all the difference between excellent and execrable rations. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Then the Doctor asked Pasquarello how long he had taken to the confounded habit of singing, and where he had got that execrable piece from. Weird Tales. Vol. I The ordinary tribunals were powerless to arrest this iniquitous organization of murder and terror, which the Irish disaffectants and their advisers even in that day appear to have brought to a system of execrable perfection. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. He pronounces this business most execrable, as well as injurious to the cause. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The liberty which every one now assumed of delivering his own opinions, led to acts so execrable, that I can find no parallel for them except in the mad times of the French Revolution. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The manner of the speaker was execrably familiar and presumptuous—but how could the embarrassed swell help himself?—"When did you return to town?" Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. The words absurd, monstrous, execrable, were everywhere written in such large characters, that I could read them without my spectacles.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Brougham is very proud of his French, which is execrable, and took the opportunity of holding forth in a most barbarous jargon, which he fancied was the real accent and phraseology. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Mr. Lincoln says he is “making history;” forgetful of the execrable figure he is likely to be in it. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital We went to the Theatre, which was execrable, but at Ghent we were very much amused with some incomparable acting. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) "If we lose the verdict, sir," said he, bending down and whispering into the ear of Gammon, "we may thank that execrable little puppy for it." Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Very handsome, reader, these shining brown panels are, very mellow in colouring and tasteful in effect, but—if you know what a "spring clean" is—very execrable and inhuman. Shirley His next poem of any consequence, The Last Day, written in heroic couplets, and filling three books, is correct, or fairly so, in versification, and execrable in taste. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) And now after the infliction of woes which no finite imagination can gauge, these very slave-holders declare with one voice, that nothing would induce them to reinstate the execrable institution. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series To be sure, there never was such an execrable nation as the French. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) He was of noble rank, a lord of vassals, and had great power and a not slight understanding, although he was corrupted with an execrable multitude of vices. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. In the meanwhile, the Tentaillons are obliging; the table, with your additions, will pass; only the wine is execrable—well, I shall send for some to-day. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order To-morrow morning the enraged Ajetas will come to attack us for the execrable booty which we have carried off from them at the risk of our lives. Adventures in the Philippine Islands A good philosopher may be an execrable poet. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) What I did was a thing execrable, unspeakable—I, your friend, did that!” The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman If the roads had been even tolerably good, one of the wagons might have carried the load, perhaps, but the roads were execrably bad and Barbara was not minded to take any risks. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs I hardly think so, for it is execrably bad form to send flowers to a public dining room by a page in buttons.” Officer 666 It makes nothing of the deep ruts and inequalities upon the execrable roads, but sways gently its low-hung, chaise-like body, and dashes over and through every impediment with the utmost facility. Due South or Cuba Past and Present We are just entering Furzebrough parish, and I want to say this:—You came to me with an execrable character—” “Yes, uncle; I’m very sorry.” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam The roads through these districts are, as might be expected, execrable, intersected by large open ditches to carry off the water; and subsequently to each journey the diligence requires extensive repairs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 He abused my confidence by the most execrable lies. A Romance of the West Indies "Fine figs, your worship," said he, mixing execrably bad Spanish with Basque words. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 Oh, as for that, I agreed with her—with her theory, that is, not with her practice; that's execrable. Audrey Craven “And Uncle James said my writing was execrable,” thought Tom. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Although the mediocre support and execrable direction spoiled most of your opportunities. Kid Scanlan The interior is more gorgeous than beautiful, and the money seems to have been expended with execrable taste. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule "Not merely for their escaping all care, and being able to extract enjoyment out of their execrable drink and pipes, but from their being exempt from all contact with portfolios." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 The Catholic clergy, in one combined voice, protested against it, and Pope Clement VIII. declared the Edict of Nantes, which permitted liberty of conscience to every one, the most execrable that was ever made. Henry IV, Makers of History It is execrable stuff—the milk of sirens mingled with sea-water. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 “What!” he said eagerly, in his execrable Italian. Olive in Italy Others are execrable and dangerous in the extreme, and in winter must be almost impassable. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule How should these execrable beings—the defeated party in a long and most rancorous civil war—be treated by the party which was at last victorious? Patrick Henry The Pope declared to all Europe that he was a "detestable, infamous, execrable man, if, indeed, he even merited the name of man." Henry IV, Makers of History That's genuine canned cream—none of your execrable Continental hot milk for me! The Innocent Adventuress He was execrable, but she would not take offence. Olive in Italy But the same hero complains with more decency, though in great pain,— Assist, support me, never leave me so; Unbind my wounds, oh! execrable woe! The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero In the first place, it is written in a most execrable style,—all affectation, and verbal wriggling and twisting for the sake of originality. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 "Miss Dawson dresses execrably, I grant you; but give her one half of the advantages of the girls that you see around you in society, and she would be not only pretty, but beautiful." Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Oh, 't would be murder of the blackest dye, Sin execrable, not to break thy orders— Inhuman, thou art not. André An execrable Triumvirate—a scandalum magnatum to all public bodies: I suppose they and their adherents are now sitting in Pandemonium, excogitating their diabolical machinations against us. The Politician Out-Witted Not a word of it seemed to be true, and the style in which it was written was execrable. Monday or Tuesday She came in after we finished our "consultation," a little heap of misfortune, execrably dressed, frightened, almost dead with submissiveness. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess But an under-servant brought me my coffee; and with her I could not exchange a word: she spoke in such an execrable patois. The Grey Woman and other Tales “Grant I should yield, still might the deed to him “Seem execrable. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II No one can read their history and believe that they were anything but patrician women, of execrable character but of high descent. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome The captain of the Palermo, an obliging man, with ear-rings, and speaking Siculo-English, does his job in nineteen hours; and giving you one execrable meal, gives you more than enough. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 I was about to add that first you will feed me bread and cheese and the execrable wine of Bagnioregio. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel The supper was execrable, consisting of an olla podrida of ham, potatoes, and tomatoes stewed in oil and seasoned with garlick, and the wine and grapes were sour. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. But, alas! their puns are almost as frequent and quite as execrable as are ever perpetrated. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition But, my child," said he, "you will have to suffer an inharmonious son of Satan who makes a discordant Hades out of an execrable piano. The Belovéd Vagabond One day, those will be the fairest pages of our time; and those two dates will wipe out the execrable date. The Frontier She had the execrable taste to do that, Sidney," replied his wife, "and I think the manner in which I declined must have been a lesson to her.... In Brief Authority This execrable deed gave rise to various suspicions and conjectures, which, while they glanced at the queen from her new sentiments with regard to her husband, were, with a general consent, directed toward Bothwell. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He urged upon the Assembly the adoption of immediate and energetic measures to arrest these execrable deeds of lawless violence. Madame Roland, Makers of History Instead of making himself notorious by his execrable conduct as those in his position generally did, he behaved like a little saint. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas From Havre to Baltimore the country is extremely poor; the soil is of a yellow gravel mixed with clay, and the road is execrable. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe He lives and dies unpolluted by the printing press,—an execrable invention of the fifteenth century, from which a paternal Government and an infallible Church employ their utmost energies to shield him. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge There is no gulf across which the voice of human suffering cannot be heard, beyond which massacre and torture cease to be execrable. Liberalism Plainly if a curse of any real value was to be pronounced it must be by a prophet who saw much that was execrable, little that was obviously glorious. A Padre in France "The execrable year is out," writes Madame Sand, "but to all appearances we are entering upon a worse." Famous Women: George Sand Her opinion of me was once excellent; it is now execrable. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 Let this idea be trampled out, and there will be no sympathy with the rebellion; and there will be no such abomination as slave-hunting, which is beyond question the most execrable feature of slavery itself. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Alarbi Abresha, Junior, meanwhile, took us on into his father's guest-house, a suite of magnificent rooms, decorated in execrable taste, the barbaric glories of the old Moorish style giving place to modern French vulgarity. In the Tail of the Peacock Associated with them were the remnants of the Doegs who had been driven out of Virginia a few years before because of the "execrable murders" they had committed. Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Better that he should amuse her than that she should be left to the mercy of men who would perhaps have the execrable taste to spoil her pretty childish ways with flattery. Theo A Sprightly Love Story There was that virtue once in Rome, that a wicked citizen was held more execrable than the deadliest foe. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Many descriptions of cruelty are to be found on every hand, but could any be painted as more atrocious and execrable than is the case here? Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood More execrably dressed men than Poppenheimer and Pappenheimer and most of the other parties in the clothing business, are seldom to be found in other walks of life. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Bacon received this news calmly, though Berkeley declared that "he swore one thousand of his usual execrable oaths." Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Having heard, accidentally, that my form had been praised in the presence of the queen, I hastily escaped from this unnatural and execrable land: —Fear to my feet gave wings. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. These gables are generally outlined with white lines and ornamented in execrable taste; many have coarse arabesques painted in relief on plaster. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) The system which permitted the masters to speculate with money not their own was execrable, but the Lord Chancellor was not the parent of that system. A Book About Lawyers Once again Boer wiliness had been rendered ineffectual owing to execrable marksmanship. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition Our allowance of food was more consonant to humanity than at Halifax, much more to the villanous scheme of starvation on board the Regulus, and the still more execrable Malabar. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. The hours of her life that she passed in possession of her faculties, contemplating herself, examining her conscience, looking on at her own shame, seemed to her so execrable! Germinie Lacerteux The author says that man has hitherto been the slave of an execrable trinity: positive religion, personal property and indissoluble wedlock. Principles Of Political Economy Laurent told me, with a burst of laughter, that I was mad, that my present cell was execrable, and that I was to be transferred to a delightful one. The True Story Book Throughout the island, the carriages for hire are execrable. Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Plainsmen had a knack of quitting his execrable drink when there was fighting to be done—and Louis Roiheim was an Israelite. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Attorney—Thou art the most vile and execrable traitor that ever lived. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) He laid aside his monastic habit, and, as he himself puts it with characteristically brutal violence, "that I might never more serve so execrable a beast, I took to wife the faithful Dorothy." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Moreover, the execrable curses I heard among the ship's company kept me awake, though Mr. Griffin, according to his promise, walked by me with his broadsword in his hand, to protect me from insults. The True Story Book Ah," cried the duke, "this is more of Father le Doux's work, that execrable Benedictine! The Regent's Daughter An execrable and sanguinary war upon the weak. Political Women, Vol. 1 I finally succeeded in relating my history, adventures and escape, and wound up with an appeal to their charity; setting forth my utterly destitute condition, in the most glowing terms my execrable Spanish would permit. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Berry was howling abusive incoherence in execrable French…. Jonah and Co. When the ladies had retired, the Colonel handed James an execrable cigar. The Hero His reign was execrable, followed by the still more infamous reign of Louis XV. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series Field had execrable taste in dress and he knew it. Stories of Authors, British and American If we continue to do thus, it will not be in the power of the execrable junto to prevent us from having a safe and honorable peace next winter. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia In execrable French he had put himself at our service. Jonah and Co. Why on earth did she want this execrable daub? The Place of Honeymoons Their wine was simply execrable," and "How I wish I could get some partridge shooting! The Life of Gordon, Volume I The singing is execrable, being a high, nasal falsetto, and the dancing, or rather swaying on their tiny feet while waving overhead a dirty cloth in their beautifully-shaped hands, is feeble in the extreme. Life and sport in China Second Edition He had rooms in Ebury Street, and had assumed an urban air which in Vixen's opinion made him execrable. Vixen, Volume II. Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable,—yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Other wise, execrable is thy purpose, and determinaciō of the life. A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Hanover, the home of Continental tires, is surrounded in every direction with execrable cobblestones, or whatever the German equivalent is—"pflaster," the writer thinks. The Automobilist Abroad Once we visited the Opera, a new and beautifully-decorated house, but the performance was execrable, and "La Dame de Chez Maxim" unrecognisable in Russian dress. From Paris to New York by Land If the gentleman's temper was execrable, the lady's mood was not too amiable. Vixen, Volume II. Between seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, Tanqueray, in an execrable temper, returned to his home. The Creators A Comedy In spite of these execrable antecedents, it was quite in vain that Miss Mapp had tried to poison the collective mind of Tilling against this Creature. Miss Mapp At Milan, on the other hand, the Scala was fallen from its old estate, dirty, gloomy, dull, and the performance execrable. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete The city, too, is so execrably drained that severe epidemics occasionally occur during the summer months, but in winter the dry cold air acts as a powerful disinfectant. From Paris to New York by Land Captain Winstanley was standing with his back to the hearth, his countenance and whole figure wearing the unmistakable air of the master of a house who has returned to his domicile in an execrable temper. Vixen, Volume II. It was a long and weary ride; the Pavi du Roi was then, as now, the most execrable suburban highroad in existence. Royal Palaces and Parks of France The manners of its possessor might be suave or severe; his reputation might be excellent or execrable; but with that mouth, a Pharisee and a hypocrite at heart he must be. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot The number of young lads and of girls of seventeen who were murdered by that execrable government, is to be reckoned by hundreds. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Winn goes to church regularly, his temper is execrable, and he takes long walks by himself. The Dark Tower First came a body of twenty-four musicians, some striking with sticks upon large round plates of copper, producing an effect not unlike the jingling of bells, and others performing most execrably upon instruments resembling clarionets. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Hurry, while the others are delayed with that execrable car. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Three times in a century, under Caligula, Nero, and Domitian, the greatest power that was ever united in one person fell into the hands of most extravagant and execrable men. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. No matter the gentility of his intentions in waiting there in this odd manner, by the experiences of squatting in traditional Asian toilets a witness to his execrable posture would ineluctably link it to excrement. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais It expelled cruelty; it curbed passion; it branded suicide; it punished and repressed an execrable infanticide; it drove the shameless impurities of heathendom into a congenial darkness. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 We went to the inn, a most execrable hotel, but dined very well on a repast we had the foresight to take with us. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I At last he conceived one of the most execrable projects the human mind ever engendered; and with an eagerness approaching to frenzy, he hastened to put it into execution. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 It had been raining heavily, and the road, never good, soon became execrable. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Worried to death with the execrable volume, Æsop replied: “I greatly approve of your bestowing praise on yourself, for it will never be your lot to receive it from another.” The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes They played duets for an hour, mechanically, violently; Laura had no idea what the music was—she only knew that their playing was execrable. A London Life and Other Tales The debate in the Lords was not lively, and the Duke, they say, made a most execrable speech. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I The carpet on the floor was costly, but hideous as staring colours and execrable design could make it. Peggy On paper the scheme looked excellent but in practice was execrable. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Does not everybody know that your father was a tatterdemalion, and your mother no better than she should be? that you murdered your brother and are guilty of other execrable crimes? Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Look here, your conduct is nothing less than execrable, and I shall not allow you to see Mr. Kruger. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War As I got near the top of the mountain the road, which had hitherto been excellent, became execrable and the cold intense. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I Ralegh throughout the trial had been for the King's Attorney an 'odious fellow;' the 'most vile and execrable traitor.' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Stampoff remained invisible, and Alec shared a table with an Armenian, who insisted on speaking execrable English, though he understood French far better. A Son of the Immortals They selected execrable inns, and, though they were accountable for everything, Pécuchet, through excess of prudence, slept in the same lodgings. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life In reality their tempers are often execrable—infernal!' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I like the Duomo, but I know my taste is execrable in architecture. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I |
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