A pair of curling-irons lay on the hearth, but I had no sooner lifted them than I dropped them with a shudder of unspeakable loathing, only to start at the noise they made in striking the tiles.

And she shrank into herself with utter loathing when she remembered Ned Trent.

Count Nobili's eyes followed her with a look of absolute loathing.

She was possessed, also, of a sudden, fierce loathing of the future, a horror because of the promise her letter contained.

The thought of his touch filled her with a loathing unutterable.

I have a plain Stomach, and have a constant Loathing of whatever comes to my own Table; for which Reason I dine at the Chop-House three Days a Week: Where the good Company wonders they never see you of late.

CHAPTER VII THE SYNTHESIS OF THE NOUVELLE ATHÈNES Two dominant notes in my characteran original hatred of my native country, and a brutal loathing of the religion I was brought up in.

I have always been strongly attracted to the colour white, and I can so well and so acutely understand the legend that tells that the ermine dies of gentle loathing of its own self, should a stain come upon its immaculate fur....

A horrible loathing had taken possession of her, recurring from time to time, till it ended in delirium and fever.

No language can do justice to the indignant and soul-sickening loathing that these ideas excited.

She spat upon the ground, scornfully, and with a gesture of infinite loathing.

He commanded them to banish sentiment and instinctive loathing, and think only of their starving mother, brothers, and sisters whom they had left in camp, and avail themselves of every means in their power to rescue them.

Among that band of Officers was one, Already hinted at, [N] of other mould A patriot, thence rejected by the rest, 290 And with an oriental loathing spurned, As of a different caste.

But I suspect that here as before (123), Shakepere would show Hamlet's soul full of bitterest, passionate loathing; his mother has compelled him to think of horrors and women together, so turning their preciousness into a disgust; and this feeling, his assumed madhess allows him to indulge and partly relieve by utterance.

I was still as determined as ever to get at the truth of his amazing treachery if I could; but the savage loathing that I had previously cherished for him was gradually giving place to a more healthy sensation of contempt.

His sense of refinement was exquisitely keen, and now to be called Bill, and kicked and cuffed about by these gross-minded men, and to hear their rough, coarse, drunken talk, and sometimes endure their still, more intolerable familiarities, filled him with deeply-seated loathing.

Yet these words, 'energetic and sonorous' though they were, 'fill one with a secret and invincible loathing, because they tend to introduce into the epitaph a character of magnificence.'

Contemplating the scene with a sensitive loathing against which his better nature struggled in vain, Mr. Clarkson had his gaze suddenly arrested by a flaunting placard which announced: TO-NIGHT AT 10.30!

The maid shrunk further from him in sheer loathing.

Fortunately she was as yet quite unspoiled, being saved from vanity by a morbid consciousness of her inborn failings and a sincere loathing for the moral weakness that prevented her from correcting those faults.

And, realizing this, though in some part of me where Reason lost her hold, there rose upon me then another and a darker thing that caught me by the throat and made me shrink with a sense of revulsion that touched actual loathing.

At the first glance, and knowing nothing whatever of her personally, she inspired him with an unaccountable loathing.

Curiosity, and a sense of my situation, induced me to fix my eyes on the faces of these men; but in a few minutes I drew them away with unconquerable loathing.

" "This is but the beginning of your losses, Manuel, for I think that a little by a little you will lose everything which is desirable, until you shall have remaining at the last only a satiation, and a weariness, and an uneasy loathing of all that the human wisdom of your elders shall have induced you to procure.

The long hair that swept his shoulders was as florid as his face, as was also his flowing whiskers and mustachio, the latter being bitten short and forming a bristling fringe over a slavering mouth,what is it, Mistress, thou art pale, has pain taken thee?" "Nay, 'tis nausea, an awful loathing; I wish to remain here.