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  • It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.   (source)
    abominable = exceptionally bad
  • Were there murder done, perhaps, and never brought to light? Abomination? Some secret blasphemy that stinks to Heaven?   (source)
    abomination = something that is exceptionally bad or detestable
  • Please bear in mind, Kitty, that the two ladies speak abominable Dutch (I don't dare comment on the gentlemen: they'd be highly insulted).   (source)
    abominable = exceptionally bad
  • I detested myself for what I considered the abomination of feeling nothing.   (source)
    abomination = something that is exceptionally bad
  • As a species, we were an abomination.   (source)
    abomination = something that is exceptionally bad or detestable
  • It then turned out that the plug was defective and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards.   (source)
    abominably = in an exceptionally bad or detestable manner
  • "It was an abominable crime," said Poirot gravely.   (source)
    abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
  • "What I heard was abominable," said Utterson.   (source)
  • "The abominable creature," murmured d'Artagnan.   (source)
  • I was one of the last to go out, and in passing the tables, I saw one teacher take a basin of the porridge and taste it; she looked at the others; all their countenances expressed displeasure, and one of them, the stout one, whispered — "Abominable stuff!"   (source)
  • Our national heroes, laid out to see this abomination.†   (source)
  • When I awoke, I suddenly understood that this propensity for self-destruction was not an abomination, not something to be ashamed of or abhorred; it was our greatest strength.†   (source)
  • Once or twice it reared its head straight up, as if appealing to heaven—the abomination of the moment was perfectly expressed.†   (source)
  • Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh!†   (source)
  • A moment later, he witnessed the final abomination.†   (source)
  • Chubby, slick-chinned, abominable Bastian yells something.†   (source)
  • By the time Sister Drummond finished telling her that she was an abomination to the traditions of Nightingale nursing to which she aspired, and should consider herself lucky to be spending the next month sorting soiled linen, not only Langland but half the girls present were weeping.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's not the Abominable Snowman after all.†   (source)
  • It was some time before we realized that these tentacle-mawed abominations were in fact our wayward brothers, crawled from the smoking crater left behind by their experiment.†   (source)
  • It is an abomination.†   (source)
  • Our Lady weeps over these abominations knowing that every time you interfere with yourself you nail to the cross her Beloved Son, that once more you hammer into His dear head the crown of thorns, that you reopen those ghastly wounds.†   (source)
  • We know the Empire cannot care for each of us personally, as you may want, but it can keep Urgals and other abominations from overrunning this," he searched vaguely for the right term, "place."†   (source)
  • But Mr. Axelroot provides a grave temptation, as he is such an abominable curiosity.†   (source)
  • Hayden, on the other hand, knew that such a hodgepodge of materials would result in an aesthetic abomination.†   (source)
  • She was late, because the traffic was abominable, and because Miss Milhouse had found fault with Jane's grooming.†   (source)
  • The thought of such incredible abominations, even if they had occurred centuries ago, made Elinor gasp for air.†   (source)
  • To what extent does his abominable behaviour exemplify the attitude of the present American administration?†   (source)
  • He had had it removed for hygienic reasons: the bathtub was another piece of abominable junk invented by Europeans who bathed only on the last Friday of the month, and then in the same water made filthy by the very dirt they tried to remove from their bodies.†   (source)
  • Why did they choose me for their abomination?†   (source)
  • But he's such an abominable scholar it must be through the kindness of his instructors that he passes at all.†   (source)
  • The Abominable Snowdog.†   (source)
  • I may not be Miss America, but I am not the abominable snowwoman either.†   (source)
  • There was an abominable odor floating in the air.†   (source)
  • This is an abomination!†   (source)
  • Izzy's bobbing next to me, wrapped in so many layers she looks like the abominable snowman.†   (source)
  • Their actions were meaningless, worth nothing, in fact were abominations without the plan.†   (source)
  • We stopped when we got to the part about the "abomination," because Edward hissed furiously and leaped off the porch.†   (source)
  • A sideshow abomination.†   (source)
  • I wondered if this was how the Abominable Snowman got his start.†   (source)
  • I have been most shamefully, most abominably treated.†   (source)
  • How abominable!†   (source)
  • They are his bloodhounds, and if not the worst abominations under the sight of Heaven, they are easily contenders for the crown.†   (source)
  • Freniere looked on death as if it were an abomination.†   (source)
  • He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the thrashings of a newborn; it was impossible to spice them up with the salt of evil or the pepper of submission.†   (source)
  • Nately was appalled and bewildered by the abominable old man's inability to perceive the enormity of his offence.†   (source)
  • I couldn't let this abomination happen.†   (source)
  • His very existence was an abomination.†   (source)
  • Ghosh meant to ask Bachelli if he actually believed anything in Lombroso's abominable book, La Donna Delinquente.†   (source)
  • It is possible that I consider you as much of an abomination as humanity considers me.†   (source)
  • It asks us to join in its ugliness, its impurities, its abominations!†   (source)
  • Nay, three that were an abomination to him.†   (source)
  • The strategy; it was perfect, and it was also abominable.†   (source)
  • My client grew up in abominable family circumstances.†   (source)
  • A beast, an abomination, a terror, but also a child.†   (source)
  • He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.†   (source)
  • The Good Book say that them things is an abomination against the Lord.†   (source)
  • A baby which, if you were to have your way, would grow up to breed, and, breeding, spread pollution until all around us there would be mutants and abominations.†   (source)
  • His head hurt abominably.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I should have consulted you before casting that abomination into the sea.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Wm that Billy was in abominable taste, supposed that Billy had gone to a lot of silly trouble to costume himself just so.†   (source)
  • And they were abominations.†   (source)
  • At first, I kept wondering how it could be possible that the educated, the cultured, the famous men of the world could make a mistake of this size and preach, as righteousness, this sort of abomination-when five minutes of thought should have told them what would happen if somebody tried to practice what they preached.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: Martha, I gave you the prize years ago…… There isn't an abomination award going that you ….†   (source)
  • Hear him Mutter spells to ward off penalties For an abomination he did not intend.†   (source)
  • ""A lie is an abomination in the sight of God and …' uh, 'and a… "And a what, boy?"†   (source)
  • Such a thing was unheard of, and in the eyes of many, an outright abomination.†   (source)
  • I came to believe that I was an abomination, a thing hated by God.†   (source)
  • That night, thin, bespectacled William Lloyd Garrison wrote on the wall of his cell: "William Lloyd Garrison was put into this cell on Monday afternoon, October 21, 1835, to save him from the violence of a respectable and influential mob, who sought to destroy him for preaching the abominable and dangerous doctrine that all men are created equal, and that all oppression is odious in the sight of God."†   (source)
  • The very newspaper that the actor had once hoped would print the letter explaining his actions is instead portraying him as an abomination.†   (source)
  • When I opened them I saw the candles burnt down on that abominable dressing-table, then I knew where I was.†   (source)
  • "The letters that call you an abomination and accuse you of being the anti-Christ aren't the worst ones.†   (source)
  • HESTHER: No, it's not--and he's probably abominable.†   (source)
  • Military men are capable of abominable crimes; witness, in our recent time alone, Chile, My Lai, Greece.†   (source)
  • It's abominable!†   (source)
  • She found her house a stable of filth and abomination and she set to cleaning it with the violence and disgust of a Hercules at labor.†   (source)
  • The Buddha and his words are an abomination in the eyes of the gods.†   (source)
  • Pictures flashed behind her eyelids: Papa standing up from the fire to see who approached, horse bolting at the blast, Tater scraped out of the saddle by tree limbs as if the hand of God had struck him in abomination.†   (source)
  • It was clear to Yurii Andreievich that, however tired he was, he would never get to sleep unless he could keep this abomination away from him.†   (source)
  • Lord, cleanse my soul of such abominations.†   (source)
  • And he sighed and turned, every movement torture, each touch of the sheets a lewd caress? and more abominable, then, in his imagination, than any caress he had received in life.†   (source)
  • "It was quite abominable," said the girl crisply.   (source)
  • If we have got to' go back now into those abominable tunnels to look for him, then drat him, I say.   (source)
  • He could only see the things's eyes, but he could feel its hairy legs as it struggled to wind its abominable threads round and round him.   (source)
  • It was abominable-wicked.   (source)
  • Jane, I will not trouble you with abominable details: some strong words shall express what I have to say.   (source)
  • Oh! that abominable Mr. Darcy!   (source)
  • If anyone can find a way to destroy this abomination, it is you.†   (source)
  • He's kept the abominable to himself, his own secret hair shirt.†   (source)
  • It was predictable that the Duke's men would retreat into cliff caves on this abominable planet.†   (source)
  • "Henry," he said, "go get that abomination cranked.†   (source)
  • The church destroyed by scandal and abomination?†   (source)
  • For a woman to curse in Lingala is fairly abominable.†   (source)
  • "That child is an abomination!" the old woman said.†   (source)
  • For that you can be forgiven even the abomination of your daughter.†   (source)
  • One of the Orcs sitting near laughed and said something to a companion in their abominable tongue.†   (source)
  • I will not suffer such abominations here.†   (source)
  • Our cause is righteous and pure and even thoughts of treachery are an abomination.†   (source)
  • "Abominable child," muttered Rasmussen, closing the door with a snick.†   (source)
  • All three of them abominations born of incest.†   (source)
  • It is an abomination I will not sanction.†   (source)
  • Your children … your—your swarming abominations carried me off!†   (source)
  • The old gods and the new alike hold slavery to be an abomination.†   (source)
  • And he may be adept at strange and terrible magics, abominations of the spellcaster's art.†   (source)
  • A monster sits the Iron Throne, an abomination born of incest!†   (source)
  • Abominations before the eyes of the gods.†   (source)
  • Ann tries desperately to keep up with the abominable children.†   (source)
  • Raffe whips the tail in his hands and drags the abomination off me.†   (source)
  • But Dr. Gibbs says it is a sin of the flesh and an abomination unto the Lord to have more than one.†   (source)
  • We see that without Torah we are abominations.†   (source)
  • These things are an abomination? he mumbled.†   (source)
  • Who are you to bring this abomination on us!†   (source)
  • Even if it were possible, it would be an abomination to have multiple consciousnesses in one body.†   (source)
  • Starting with Cersei and her abominations.†   (source)
  • We'll all drown unless we get rid of her, and that abomination that she whelped."†   (source)
  • I would give my eyes never to have seen this abominable place.†   (source)
  • Max shuddered as a woman's hysterical voice issued from the abomination.†   (source)
  • A cruel joke that they grow so near this abominable camp with its dogs and their reek, no?†   (source)
  • Pushing me to finish this, to cleanse the world of this abomination.†   (source)
  • Spread the word that the only sure way of stopping these abominations is to behead them.†   (source)
  • Abomination, he remembered, drowning in blood and pain and madness.†   (source)
  • Once the pentacles were complete, the abominations could not even twitch without David's permission.†   (source)
  • That such an abomination should now be talking to him was almost too much to bear.†   (source)
  • They pray to trees and golden idols and goat-headed abominations.†   (source)
  • The scar tissue itched abominably sometimes.†   (source)
  • Max wondered if Bram, or even Astaroth, could destroy such an abomination.†   (source)
  • This monster has but half a nose, and it itches most abominably.†   (source)
  • Hard by the bay was the abomination, the slave market at her door.†   (source)
  • I think the time is at hand to cleanse the world of this abomination.†   (source)
  • He was six-foot-three and built like the Abominable Snowman, but he cried a lot and was scared of just about everything, including his own reflection.†   (source)
  • Said they ought to ban Fanny Crosby by church law and that Rock of Ages was an abomination unto the Lord.†   (source)
  • If the Major were dead, she would not be betraying her marriage vows; but as it is…… He tells her the Major has treated her abominably, and is a cad, a scoundrel, a dog, and deserves even worse from her.†   (source)
  • We would not allow such abominations to occur, such as these girls being forced to work for pennies, for hours on end.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino, so occupied at that time with his professional obligations and so absorbed in his civic and cultural enterprises, was content to assume that in the midst of so many abominable creatures his wife was not only the most beautiful woman in the Caribbean but also the happiest.†   (source)
  • Then they are going to suggest that his performance is so abominable that he not bother to attend, but leave the class right now.†   (source)
  • …next she said that the poor lady in black had been interfered with by him, having been alone in her house with the servant gone, although I was not to speak of it, as to do so would cause more harm than good; and although this lady was a married lady, and her husband had been abominable to her, and thus it was not quite so bad as if she'd been a young girl, still Dr. Jordan had behaved most improperly, and it was a mercy things with Miss Lydia had never gone so far as an engagement.†   (source)
  • Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I'll not live to see the meek inherit anything.†   (source)
  • Either they died without warning, almost always on the eve of a major holiday that could not be celebrated because of the period of mourning, or they faded away in long, abominable illnesses whose most intimate details eventually became public knowledge.†   (source)
  • He's humanoid, he's hominid, he's an aberration, he's abominable; he'd be legendary, if there were anyone left to relate legends.†   (source)
  • "But the demons of the past," he continued, "were demons of fire and abomination …. they were enemies we could fight-enemies who inspired fear.†   (source)
  • Both things were confused in her memory as a single purgative, as much for the taste as for her terror of the poison, and at the abominable lunches in the palace of the Marquis de Casalduero she had to look away so as not to repay their kindness with the icy nausea of castor oil.†   (source)
  • The Abominable Snowman — existing and not existing, flickering at the edges of blizzards, apelike man or manlike ape, stealthy, elusive, known only through rumours and through its backward-pointing footprints.†   (source)
  • …who they were, while this very month there were no seats left for the Ramon Caralt company that performed detective dramas, for the Operetta and Zarzuela Company of Don Manolo de la Presa, for the Santanelas, ineffable mimics, illusionists, and artistes, who could change their clothes on stage in the wink of an eye, for Danyse D'Altaine, advertised as a former dancer with the Folies-Bergere, and even for the abominable Ursus, a Basque madman who took on a fighting bull all by himself.†   (source)
  • She blamed it on space travel and association with that abominable Spacing Guild and its secretive ways.†   (source)
  • She did not comprehend why he thought it an abomination that he had had a woman in secret, since that was an atavistic custom of a certain kind of man, himself included, yes even he in a moment of ingratitude, and besides, it seemed to her a heartbreaking proof of love that she had helped him carry out his decision to die.†   (source)
  • In his thick fur cloak, with his hide clothes dusted with snow, he looked like the Abominable Ginger Snowman.†   (source)
  • But just as many wanted you destroyed, for it was the belief of most vampires that Daylighters were an abomination to be rooted out.†   (source)
  • It is an abomination.†   (source)
  • Actually, more like, let's all try to forget when we were at the mercy of sadistic spawns of Satan in a place that's a total, hellish abomination and ought to be firebombed.†   (source)
  • The sideshow was a low-ceilinged maze of canvas—a single, dramatically torchlit aisle that took sharp turns every twenty or thirty feet, so that around each corner we were confronted by a new "abomination of nature."†   (source)
  • It is an abomination—a curse!†   (source)
  • His presence there is abominable to me.†   (source)
  • …order that it might destroy the divine order and turn our land, the stronghold of God's will upon Earth, into a lewd chaos like the Fringes; trying to make it a place without the law, like the lands in the South that Uncle Axel had spoken of, where the plants and the animals and the almost-human beings, too, brought forth travesties; where true stock had given place to unnameable creatures, abominable growths flourished, and the spirits of evil mocked the Lord with obscene fantasies.†   (source)
  • " 'A lie is an abomination in the sight of God,' " I repeated, " 'and a very present help in time of trouble!'†   (source)
  • Monstrous and abominable eyes they were, bestial and yet filled with purpose and with hideous delight, gloating over their prey trapped beyond all hope of escape.†   (source)
  • The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red pear-shaped plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incamadine symbol of his own ineptitude.†   (source)
  • Frodo began to wonder if it were possible to find a way through, and if he had been right to make the others come into this abominable wood.†   (source)
  • They were two bruised, elephantine columns covered with open wounds in which the larvae of flies and worms had made their nests and were busy tunneling; two legs rotting alive, with two outsized, pale blue feet with no nails on the toes, full to bursting with the pus, the black blood, and the abominable animals that were feeding on her flesh, mother, in God's name, of my own flesh.†   (source)
  • One of our merchants, Jeod-Jeod Longshanks, as we call him out of hearing-has had the most abominable run of bad luck.†   (source)
  • An abomination.†   (source)
  • There were also abominable creatures haunting the reeds and tussocks that from the sound of them were evil relatives of the cricket.†   (source)
  • Adams argued that the rule was an abomination upon the Constitutional rights of not only the members of the House, but also of their constituents.†   (source)
  • Bastards were common enough, but incest was a monstrous sin to both old gods and new, and the children of such wickedness were named abominations in sept and godswood alike.†   (source)
  • For I confess to you, daughter, my weakness came not merely from the abomination of the white man who came violently into my fading presence, there was also a weight of longing on my earth-held limbs.†   (source)
  • When he went to bed alone, he dodged flak over Bologna again in a dream, with Aarfy hanging over his shoulder abominably in the plane with a bloated sordid leer.†   (source)
  • You are an abomination, and we shall see to it that you are eliminated, even if it costs us our lives.†   (source)
  • They were short, fat, burnt with smoky flames, and smelt abominably, but they enabled me to see the surroundings.†   (source)
  • What an abominable notion!†   (source)
  • Figeroa glanced at Shaw and then back to the British ship, which, although a bit closer, was still far off: "Such declarations are blasphemy and an abomination to the Lord God in heaven, Señor Shaw."†   (source)
  • 'A baby — a baby which …. would grow to breed, and breeding, spread pollution until all around us there would be mutants and abominations.†   (source)
  • It would be an abomination.†   (source)
  • The grylmhoch abruptly ceased its gibbering speech and sprawled upon the arena floor like some beached abomination.†   (source)
  • Throughout history, never has there been a Shade who was also a Rider, and of all the horrors that have stalked this fair land, such an abomination could easily be the worst, worse even than Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • I declare upon the honor of my House that my beloved brother Robert, our late king, left no trueborn issue of his body, the boy Joffrey, the boy Tommen, and the girl Myrcella being abominations born of incest between Cersei Lannister and her brother Jaime the Kingslayer.†   (source)
  • The small of his back hurt abominably, as if someone had shoved a knife in there and was wiggling it back and forth with every step.†   (source)
  • His back ached so abominably from the walking that he would have liked to lean up against one of the carved wooden pillars that supported the roof, but the fire was in the center of the hall beneath the smoke hole and he craved warmth even more than comfort.†   (source)
  • The creature was some sort of revolting hybrid of insect and machine, a Workshop abomination now splayed upon the smuggler's desk.†   (source)
  • Many of their leaders were in fact members of the Protestant clergy who believed that enslaving fellow human beings was a sin and an abomination unto the Lord.†   (source)
  • "Abomination!" cried the old woman.†   (source)
  • The Grand Maester befouled himself in dying, and the stink was so abominable that I thought I might choke.†   (source)
  • More abominations!†   (source)
  • Haggon would call it an abomination, the blackest sin of all, but Haggon was dead, devoured, and burned.†   (source)
  • Haggon would have called it abomination, but Varamyr had often slipped inside her skin as she was being mounted by One Eye.†   (source)
  • Men may eat the flesh of beasts and beasts the flesh of men, but the man who eats the flesh of man is an abomination.†   (source)
  • Abomination, abomination, abomination.†   (source)
  • Abomination, he heard Haggon saying.†   (source)
  • To eat of human meat was abomination, to mate as wolf with wolf was abomination, and to seize the body of another man was the worst abomination of all.†   (source)
  • Abomination.†   (source)
  • Abomination.†   (source)
  • Abomination.†   (source)
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