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  • The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps.†  (source)
  • This may sound ludicrous, and even execrable under the circumstances, but I was youthful and naive enough that I possessed much more of a kind of hard focusing than any circumspection, which one may argue has remained with me for my whole life.†  (source)
  • My early years, darkened by the shadows and regional superstitions of a bona fide cracker boy, act as a sobering agent during the execrable periods of self-righteousness that I inflict on those around me.†  (source)
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  • You have such execrable taste, my pet.†  (source)
  • Philip's knowledge of the language was small, but he knew enough to tell that Cronshaw, although he had lived in Paris for several years, spoke French execrably.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Otter hesitated to translate, and Miss Price repeat ed in execrable French.†  (source)
  • He stood at the desk, labouring in his execrable handwriting.†  (source)
  • Sir Robert Fairlamb was an excellent fellow, a teller of mess-room stories, one who in a heathen day never smoked till the port had gone seven times round; but he was an execrable governor and a worried governor.†  (source)
  • But she was never that for very long; after a few days the shining, crafty eyes lost their brightness and their duplicity, that picture of an execrable Odette saying to Forcheville: "Look at him storming!" began to grow pale and to dissolve.†  (source)
  • Excuse me if my little compliment seems in execrable taste; fortunately my wife doesn't hear me.†  (source)
  • Your Minister may perhaps be good as a Minister, but as a general he is not merely bad but execrable, yet to him is entrusted the fate of our whole country....I am really frantic with vexation; forgive my writing boldly.†  (source)
  • But when at last, he caught her; when, in spite of all her silken rustlings, and her rapid flutterings past him, he got her into a corner whence there was no escape; then his conduct was the most execrable.†  (source)
  • But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had always been bad, became fearfully bad.†  (source)
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