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Example sentences for "loathed"

Lexicographically close words:
loaning; loans; loant; loath; loathe; loathes; loathing; loathly; loathsome; loathsomeness
  1. The man whose coming she had loathed was making the dreadful ordeal very easy for her.

  2. She was physically afraid of him, and she hated him and loathed herself for the fear he inspired.

  3. He loathed the restrictions that had to be put upon him and he hated the restraint of town life.

  4. And I was glad that you were English that I could make you suffer as an Englishman made my mother suffer, I so loathed the whole race.

  5. Though she loathed the means she would make him love her.

  6. For the advent of the man who a few weeks before she had loathed for his brutal abduction of herself she now prayed with the desperation of despair.

  7. He loathed his work, and he was always poor, always worried and in ill-health.

  8. She was, and loathed herself, and promptly denied it.

  9. Yet one hand had touched her, gently, yet firmly, as he helped her to the chair, and the touch she loathed was sweet to her in spite of herself.

  10. Why dream, then, that I would rescue the loathed child of that loathed union from your grasp?

  11. I loathed myself with a hatred that sent me groveling to my blanket in the pantry, and that kept me, once there, awake through all the early part of the summer night.

  12. And I made them feel, I think, the horror of a situation where each man suspected his neighbor, feared and loathed him, and yet stayed close by him because a known danger is better than an unknown horror.

  13. Is all I have gained by doing what I loathed to be thrown away?

  14. She felt that she loathed the man and the part circumstances had forced on her while she dressed herself in expectation of his visit; but, for all that, she was prepared to undertake it.

  15. The vindictive hatred she bore Merril had for the time being driven every womanly attribute out of her, but she remembered how she had loathed this man's advances and endured them.

  16. At all these measures Mazzini instinctively revolted; he wanted a republic, he loathed Napoleon as the betrayer of Rome, he was ever eager for any sincere demonstration against Austria.

  17. She loathed his treachery, and his impious trafficking with death.

  18. Nay, but for her father's sake, she could almost have loathed the pleasure and the pomp, and the admiration and the homage, which seemed to insult the reverses of the wandering exile.

  19. If Peg only despised the Chichesters she positively loathed Brent, and with a loathing she took no pains to conceal.

  20. She loathed tyranny and his method of shutting the mouths of those who disagreed with him was particularly obnoxious to her.

  21. I loathed him and loved him always," he said with terrible remorse in his tone.

  22. It was all better than he had dared to hope, for he liked the business, and he loathed the way the world had looked at John Grier's will.

  23. The people of that land were his abhorrence; he loathed Buonaparte like Antichrist.

  24. She loathed the marriage bed, and made for herself a sort of couch in the kitchen.

  25. When she reached the door, Storms put forth his hand and attempted to put her aside, not rudely; but she so loathed his touch, that a faint cry broke from hers.

  26. Did you not tell me that you loathed what you were painting?

  27. She had shrunk from what was evil, as Frank had shrunk from it and loathed it when she was there; but the fascination of which, interpreted by his artistic passion, he had been unable to resist.

  28. In both cases he chose to appear as a free talker, who loathed pomposity and enjoyed a joke; but how much was nature and how much was mask, he was himself too simple a nature to know.

  29. Adams enjoyed killing big game, but loathed the labor of cutting it up; so that he rarely unslung the little carbine he was in a manner required to carry.

  30. He loathed the whole fabric of sham religion, sham loyalty, sham aristocracy, and sham socialism.

  31. The publicans were hated, despised, loathed by the Jews.

  32. There was a hunger of soul, though you would not confess it--a hunger of soul, which rejected and loathed these husks.

  33. So he loathed and despised Yasmini even more than he had detested her mother, because she coupled to her mother's Western notions about freedom a wholly Eastern ability to take advantage of restraint.

  34. He had loathed her mother, who dared try to wear down the rule that women must be veiled.

  35. It remained the continual and loathed object of your eyes.

  36. I lay in my cradle, smiling at life and at God's glorious works, in happy ignorance of the future, men had already doomed me to live loathed and detested of all, like the venomous reptile against which every hand is lifted?

  37. In particular, he loathed the foreman, a pious humbug who allowed no swearing, but indulged in something far more degraded--the Cockney repartee.

  38. There was nothing Ansell loathed so much as the hearty Britisher; but he shook hands, and they stared at each other awkwardly.

  39. Though he was fond of me, he had absolutely no amorous longings for me, and being a simple, pure-minded fellow, would have loathed me for mine and my inverted nature.

  40. Light is the loss of sepulchre or pyre, Loathed have I lived and useless, since the day When man's great monarch and the God's dread sire Breathed his avenging blast and scathed me with his fire.

  41. And now, great Jove, reluctant, but resigned, I yield, and leave the loathed fight behind.

  42. Turnus two Lycian brethren next o'erthrew From Phoebus' fields, and young Menoetes too From Arcady, who loathed the war in vain.

  43. If Trojans win the day, With thee I'll leave the loathed light, nor see AEneas wed my child, a captive slave, as she.

  44. As he looked back he did not know whether he loathed her or loved her; he only knew that she affected him profoundly.


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