And the dear friend heaved a sigh at the thought of so much human malice incarnate in mydetestable person.
I can't understand suchdetestable jealousy," she said, deeply distressed.
Caught in my own trap, I pictured to myself in my wrath the detestable creature who had forced herself upon me: she had the eyes of a Mongolian, a sallow face, red arms.
Certainly' said the Colonel; and after some apologies on our part for the mistake, he went off in triumph, with the detestable poodle frisking after him.
That detestable thing on the hearthrug there has dogged my path to misery and ruin; you cannot be without some responsibility for its conduct.
They were as bad and detestable as the Red Indians were to the Colonists in America long afterwards.
I speak not of Burton, for I found myself unable to read a couple of pages of his detestable English, made more terrible by the imitations of the rhymed prose of the original.
However detestable the creature was, her paroxysm of grief touched my heart.
Then, uncovering the buckler, he turned its bright disk full in the face of the detestable Orc.
Turnus was recognized by all as leader; others joined as allies, chief of whom was Mezentius, a brave and able soldier, but of detestable cruelty.
Without it we are left to the detestable and impossible figure of the apostle who denies his Lord and has no mercy for a weak brother who merely keeps back part of a sum of money when professing freely to donate the whole.
The personage thus evolved is not only detestable but incredible.
It was shaped somewhat like an Indian tomahawk; and this instrument of death he concealed until an opportunity offered to effect his detestable purpose.
The consequence of this most detestable act was, that a great outcry was raised against the highwayman, and he was compelled to quit the place on which he had hitherto relied for his concealment.
In the character of preceptor he appears to have acquitted himself with ability and credit; though he has been charged by his enemies with having initiated his pupil in those detestable vices which disgraced the reign of Nero.
The most abominable lust, the most extravagant luxury, the most shameful rapaciousness, and the most inhuman cruelty, constitute the general characteristics of those capricious and detestable tyrants.
It is for this reason that he cannot conceal a certain admiration for Regulus, in other respects, "the most detestable of bipeds" but who redeemed his infamy by an enthusiasm and energy as an advocate which rivalled even that of Pliny.
This was often provoked by thedetestable character of the prince.
Even men of high position, with no temptation from want, would stoop to this detestable trade.
They kept at arm's length those detestable men; What an era of virtue she lived in!
They are appealing to the detestable old superstitious presumption in favor of whatever is nauseous and noxious as being good for the sick.
What is more, I think they are as detestable a string of rhymes as I could wish my worst enemy had written.
This was the most detestable complication which he could conceive of.
We cannot say, withdetestable morality, "Our party, right or wrong.
She will be flying from a Stuart, for whose detestable embraces you have designed her.
The detestable deeds which men did under the influence of pulcre, or the native Mexican wine, the Aztecs attributed to the god of wine or to the wine itself, and not in the least to the drunken man.
But by degrees custom operated, and produced even a taste for such detestable repasts.
Can you not, sir, rid yourself of this detestable habit of perpetual exaggeration in the expression of your thoughts?
Nay, my young friend, I believe nothing of that detestable character can be laid to your charge.
But to set ourselves up to guide and direct other men, as the preacher did whose words I have quoted, is to set oneself in the place of God, and is a detestable tyranny.
The old detestable doctrine of Hell, the idea that the stubborn and perverse spirit can defy God, and make its black choice, is simply an attempt to glorify the strength of the human spirit and to belittle the Love of God.
Grace will in nowise remember or speak of; but for those treasons which they have committed again since in such detestable sort as no good subject would not wish their punishment for the same.
Shall not his detestable acts, written in his conscience, evermore bring him to continual sorrow?
I can no more, but desire that your master and you may acknowledge your detestable faults and be good witnesses of the king's high mercy.
And his Highness trusteth that this his gracious pity shall more effectually work the abolishing ofdetestable heresies and fond opinions than shall the extreme punishment of the law.
It looks too like a concession to this detestable British public.
He had been known to make away with the materials of Lolly's detestable occupation when he got the chance.
You don't know what a devil, what a detestable little devil I can be.
