He is an abominable magician, who has this day torn me from the Prince of Persia, my destined husband, and has brought me here on this enchanted horse.
She begged hard for life, which he was generous enough to give her, but he bade her to tell him how she had got into partnership with the abominable creatures he had just put to death.
It was such a great fault to doubt Babette's truth—it was most abominable of him.
"Well, now I know the world," said the beetle to himself; "it's an abominable world; I'm the only respectable person in it.
