1 He was an abominable negro, and yet believed that he did me a great deal of honour.
2 "Something very foolish and abominable," said Martin.
3 It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU... 4 There he stood, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the abominable things viewed at such close quarters.
5 It was abominable that actual facts could reach such deformity.
6 So you are going to be perfectly contented in your abominable Rue de l'Homme Arme.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 7 You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for your wife is dead, you abominable liar.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 8 "The abominable creature," murmured d'Artagnan.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS 9 "What I heard was abominable," said Utterson.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE 10 In the end he will want to spew you out as the abominable thing.
11 And they will now see their cousin treated as she ought to be, and I wish they may be heartily ashamed of their own abominable neglect and unkindness.
12 The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an abominable crime.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 13 The matches were of that abominable kind that light only on the box.
14 I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world.
15 It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.