Dorothea's outpouring of her notions about money, in the darkness of the night, had done nothing but bring a mixture of more odious foreboding into her husband's mind.
There was no odious cupidity in Mr.
And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.
Dorothea accused herself of some meanness in this timidity: it was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions, but at this moment she was seeking the highest aid possible that she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose.
How can you choose such odious expressions?
Strickland was an odious man, but I still think he was a great one.
His cruelty to such a charming woman made him odious to her.
She was so amazingly tired, and it was so odious to parade about the pump-room; and if she moved from her seat she should miss her sisters; she was expecting her sisters every moment; so that her dearest Catherine must excuse her, and must sit quietly down again.
"Oh, these odious gigs!
Do you know, there are two odious young men who have been staring at me this half hour.
He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.
We would be foolish to deny that it could just be possible, from the perspective of the median voter, that the odious populists are getting the economy right when the liberal elite did not.
Odious stuck-up prig.
Using all his skill, the huntsman snuck up on the bird and managed to seize it by the claws, but soon the startled creature left a huge odious blob of excrement on the hunter's shoulder.
"Wilt thou be silent, thou odious toad," said he, "or I will shoot thee dead.
I wished a round score of men--in case of natives, buccaneers, or the odious French--and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very man that I required.
How odious you are.
Will you be silent, you odious toad, said he, or I will shoot you dead.
" "Ah," said the bridegroom, "how comest thou by these odious friends?
"Now, will you be quiet, odious frog," said she.
