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• The object for which a convention is wanted is so justly odious, and the conduct of the friends of the measure so disgraceful, that I cannot bring myself to believe they will succeed. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
• To the large distillers the tax was not altogether odious, as they comprehended that the new law would add greatly to their trade by cutting off their lesser rivals, and securing the manufacture of spirits to the well-to-do and well-established few. —  The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
• But we want to know what it's supposed to be It's too odious, the way he talks about us!" —  The Tragic Muse
• By the past, I do not mean the period of the revolution, when vulgarity assisted to render vice still more odious--a happy union, perhaps, for those who were to follow--but the days of the old régime_. —  Recollections of Europe
• In order to render their antagonists odious, they affirmed that, once in seven years, they concurred with the Jews in the time of celebrating that festival;[*] and that they might recommend their own form of tonsure, they maintained, that it imitated symbolically the crown of thorns worn by Christ in his passion; whereas the other form was invented by Simon Magus, without any regard to that representation Bede, lib. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John

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