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to hate or detest something
- This I would not be prevailed on to accept, abhorring to cover myself with any thing that had been on the back of a Yahoo.Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (88% in)
- But I was a little comforted by a message from his majesty, "that he would give orders to the grand justiciary for passing my pardon in form:" which, however, I could not obtain; and I was privately assured, "that the empress, conceiving the greatest abhorrence of what I had done, removed to the most distant side of the court, firmly resolved that those buildings should never be repaired for her use: and, in the presence of her chief confidents could not forbear vowing revenge."Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (62% in)
- Glumdalclitch was prevailed on to be of the company, very much against her inclination, for she was naturally tender-hearted: and, as for myself, although I abhorred such kind of spectacles, yet my curiosity tempted me to see something that I thought must be extraordinary.Part 2 — A Voyage to Brobdingnag (54% in)
- ...could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind; that these were too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of stones, without a covering made from the skin of some other brute; that my whole body wanted a fence against heat and cold, which I was forced to put on and off every day, with tediousness and trouble: and lastly, that he observed every animal in this country naturally to abhor the Yahoos, whom the weaker avoided, and the stronger drove from them.Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (28% in)
- But as my discourse had increased his abhorrence of the whole species, so he found it gave him a disturbance in his mind to which he was wholly a stranger before.Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (35% in)
- The second disadvantage is, that my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law.Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (37% in)
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