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Abhorrence: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 219.

I find no abhorring in my appetite.— DONNE — Devotion.

Nature abhors the old.— EMERSON — Essays. Circles.

The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent.— GLOVER — Leonidas. Bk. X.

Justly thou abhorr'st That son, who on the quiet state of men Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue Rational liberty; yet know withal, Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XII. L. 79.

Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 37.

*** few things loves better Than to abhor himself.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 60.

How abhorred in my imagination it is!— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 206.

It doth abhor me now I speak the word.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 162.

*** more abhorr'd Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 18

Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 11.

Whom my very soul abhors. Act IV. 0. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Sc. 3. L. 17. *** make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.— SOUTHEY — Curse of Kehama. VIII. 9.

For, if the worlds In worlds enclosed should on his senses burst *** He would abhorrent turn.— THOMSON — Seasons. Summer. L. 313.

When it was become an abhorring even to them that had loved it best.— TRENCH — Miracles. XXIX. 414.