1 But she declared that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her fierce stage of devotion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT 2 I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 3 Tasting a mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls do not detest this.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 4 Beware that I do not write to you a fourth time to tell you that I detest you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS 5 So she feigned a mocking laugh and said, "Eurynome, I have changed my mind, and have a fancy to show myself to the suitors although I detest them."
6 A night will come when I shall have to yield myself to a marriage which I detest, for Jove has taken from me all hope of happiness.
7 You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner.
8 It makes one detest all one's acquaintance.
9 I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 10 He remained immovable, with the lowering forehead she had grown to detest.
11 The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
12 He would detest and despise her, for he had come almost to hate the shoving forward of the working classes.
13 You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.
14 The allies detest Napoleon whom they regard as the cause of their sufferings.
15 She would not have detested him so heartily had she not known that he dared to admire her.