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They will execrate, revile, curse and oppress thee with acute tongues.— Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
Where sects arise whose fundamental principle on all sides is to execrate, and abhor, and damn, and extirpate each other, what choice has the magistrate left but to take part, and by rendering one sect entirely prevalent, restore, at least for a time, the public tranquillity?— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
For she lived only to make me sensible of my failings, but not long enough to enable me to conquer them; as I was resolved to endeavour to do Once more then let me execrate--but now violence and passion again predominate!--And how can it be otherwise But I force myself from the subject, having lost the purpose for which I resumed my pen A. HOWE LETTER LVI MR. LOVELACE, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ. PARIS, OCT.— Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9
Not a doubt but that some industrious scribe in Piacenza with a grudge against Gambara, would set down what was the talk of the town; and hereafter, it is not to be doubted, the murder of Astorre Fifanti for the vilest of all motives will be added to the many crimes of Egidio Gambara, that posterity may execrate his name even beyond its already rich enough deserts I heard them in silence and but little moved, yet with a question now and then to probe how far this silly story went in detail.— The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
Mothers and wives and sisters will execrate your name, brave men will be sacrificed needlessly.— The Puppet Crown

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