Taxation without representation is abhorrent to every principle of natural or civil liberty.
If there is anything that was and is abhorrent to me, it is the scattering doubts, and unsettling consciences without necessity.
Israel went into exile because its manner of life as a nation had been abhorrent to Jehovah, and it had defiled the land which was Jehovah's house.
He is painfully talkative, and oppressively evangelical, which renders him specially abhorrent to Lilian, who has rather a fancy for flowers and candles and nice little boys in white shirts.
But I cannot help seeing that the fact of my being your guardian makes me abhorrent to you.
Violence in itself was most abhorrent to him; it had no part in his nature; and consequently, by the strange tenets of Ignatius Loyola's disciples, he was condemned to a course of it.
To do the latter would mean depriving Marian of certain pleasures and luxuries, the doing of which would be abhorrent to him.
One of the practices which was at present abhorrent to Marian was over-indulgence in drink.
Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision.
True humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision.
Dink took this check severely to heart and, of course, beheld in this thwarting of his scheme to dispose of the abhorrent set with honor a fresh demonstration of the implacability of The Roman.
At table he took a malignant delight in demanding loudly second and third helps of the abhorrent prunes--long after he had come to feel the universal antagonism.
The feasting-table happened to be directly beneath the abhorrent poster, so that Stover, as he lifted the bottle to open it, beheld with fury the offending tights.
Absolute rigidity on Stover's part denounced the gerund, while a slight wriggling of his sensitive ears betrayed the approach of the abhorrent gerundive.
In the evenings he resolutely turned his back on all midnight spreads or expeditions to the protecting shadows of the woods to smoke the abhorrent cigarette, for the joy of the risk run.
The free black will feel him, too, in the more contemptuous and abhorrent scowl of his brother man, who will easily derive from this unfortunate essay the belief that his inhuman feelings are of divine ordination.
It legalized the most abhorrentsystem of robbery which ever cursed the family of man.
The image of that vile woman whom we will not name, is loathsome and abhorrent to me--and I would as readily come in contact with a serpent, as meet her again.
But the government which is founded on Christianity, is on that account limited, and is consequently in its very nature abhorrent either from absolute despotism, or the uncontrolled tyranny of popular factions.
I said I thought female labor of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastizement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
It is an institutionabhorrent to our sense of right.
He looked at me gravely, and without twitching a muscle answered: "She is one of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen, I no longer wonder that the idea of kingship was abhorrentto you.
Perhaps we were too lenient, knowing as we did the kind of men with whom we dealt; but severity was abhorrent to me who had been so short a while King.
The middleman is specially abhorrent to the people when he is one of themselves.
There was something more abhorrent than sitting with one's legs crossed, publicly stitching, and scoffed at!
He 's a corrective of Cudford, who is abhorrent to my soul.
He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him.
He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest.
Some insidious and abhorrent thing was obsessing his consciousness, but in some way it was not fully born yet, nor concrete, nor tangible.
In spite of himself, in spite of the fact that that contemptuous stare was his only through a damnable and abhorrent proxy, he felt suddenly ill at ease.
