" "Secondly," said Caspian, "I want to know why you have permitted this abominable and unnatural traffic in slaves to grow up here, contrary to the ancient custom and usage of our dominions.
The latest Sherlock special, The Abominable Bride, hit Chinese cinemas on Jan 4, and it's a loving homage to Doyle's original vision.
The Christmas special, entitled "Sherlock: The Abominable Bride", was granted a Chinese release thanks to a series of cultural exchanges between the two countries.
The seasonal episode, a one-off entitled The Abominable Bride, will seek to extend that close relationship, as it goes back to the Victorian era with a Sherlock Holmes ghost story.
Surely the most abominable recognition of middle life is that we are past changing.
The pitch was bubbling in the seams; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage.
" You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself.
Imagine the abominable age we live in!
And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
I have already begun by punishing the authors of this abominable crime, and I hope you will forgive me when I introduce you to our children, who are the most charming and accomplished creatures in the whole world.
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.
