Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence.
He had a strong relish for public representation in his own person, but an extreme abhorrence of the like display in any other.
He swore it was not, nor ever should be, mine; and he'd—but I'll not repeat his language, nor describe his habitual conduct: he is ingenious and unresting in seeking to gain my abhorrence!
" "Well, but then, my boy," said Uncle Glegg, whose good feeling led him to enter into Tom's wish, but who could not at once shake off his habitual abhorrence of such recklessness as destroying securities, or alienating anything important enough to make an appreciable difference in a man's property, "we should have to make away wi' the note, you know, if we're to guard against what may happen, supposing your father's made bankrupt——" "Mr Glegg," interrupted his wife, severely, "mind what y
I began to feel that my abhorrence for Strickland could only be sustained by an effort on my part.
" Then the brutal minions of the law fell upon the hapless Toad; loaded him with chains, and dragged him from the Court House, shrieking, praying, protesting; across the marketplace, where the playful populace, always as severe upon detected crime as they are sympathetic and helpful when one is merely "wanted," assailed him with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words; past hooting school children, their innocent faces lit up with the pleasure they ever derive from the sight of a gentleman in
These smallest human attributes can save this society from envy, abhorrence, disagreements, disloyalty and disrespect.
This is a far more eloquent way to express both his abhorrence for the idea and his annoyance with you for even suggesting it.
