1 A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and her feelings were alike averse to it.
2 He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest.
3 He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him.
4 She thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladies and the very idea of living under the same roof with Ashley's wife was abhorrent.
5 She seemed a stranger to herself, or rather there were two selves in her, the one she had always known, and a new abhorrent being to which it found itself chained.
6 All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 7 He surmised my secret, and has presumed ever since upon the claim which he has upon me, and upon his power of provoking a scandal which would be abhorrent to me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 8 My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.
9 I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.
10 You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.
11 While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.
12 The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.
13 And that,' said Rosa Dartle, 'is so strong a claim, preferred by one so infamous, that if I had any feeling in my breast but scorn and abhorrence of you, it would freeze it up.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 14 As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.
15 But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.