For I have been abominably selfish.

I am so abominably in love with you that it seemed a sort of desecration when the man lugged your name into a discussion of money-matters.

He did, indeed, scream and scrape most abominably.

It was abominably stupid of me!' 'Oh no.

How abominably mean of you!

Makes me surer than ever that he has an abominably deep purpose in using his wits to hang on here.

And don't let Célestine pack your things, because she's abominably careless.

He's abominably selfish!

He had deceived her most abominably; he had come there, the expressed and avowed lover of Miss March; he had connived with her niece in her deceit; he had taken advantage of all the opportunities she gave him to attain the legitimate object of his visit, to inveigle into his snares this silly and absurd young woman; and he had dared to interfere with the plans, which, by day and by night, she had been maturing for years.

" "Ohbut she does it abominably!

The conduct of the young and lovely heroine (as above) and her single-minded devotion to her lover may be true to nature, but somewhat alienated my own sympathies, already given to the first-person-singular English lad who also adored her, and whom both she and her chosen mate treated abominably.

He was an insubordinate dog, and always smelt abominably of garlic.

For an hour it was dreadfully tryinghad to pick a road, tumbled into crevasses, and got jerked about abominably.

Leonard Chadwick wrote briefly and hurriedly, but in good-natured terms; he was really very sorry indeed that he could do so little; the fact was, just now he stood on anything but good terms with his father, who kept him abominably short of cash.

My governor treated you abominably.

Indisputably his trousers were ungainly, flapping abominably over his boots and bagging terribly at the knees, and his boots were not only worn and ugly but extremely ill blacked.

The whole thing was abominably disagreeable to him, but it had to be done, he had promised Ethel it should be done.

Though it was early in March,a time of the year which, in the eastern counties of England, is not altogether propitious to out-of-doors festivity,though the roads were muddy, and the park sloppy, and the church abominably open to draughts, still there was a crowd.

The only disease we are annoyed with here, that we are not accustomed to at home, is the intermittent fever,and that, though most abominably annoying, is not by any means dangerous: indeed, one of the most annoying circumstances connected with it is, that, instead of being sympathized with, you are only laughed at.

Or, who will imitate nature so abominably.

"You're thinking of something else," he told her, "and playing abominably.

It does, in some instances, less, however, as a virtue than as a bonne bouche for epicures, as is made most patent in that offshoot of the Alexandrian manner, the abominably raffiné story of Daphnis and Chloe.

She was behaving abominably.

It's a wretched stump of a pencil, villainously cut to an abominably bad point.

" His tone was abominably, condescendingly tolerant, and his look was the look which a mastiff turns wearily upon a hysterical toy-terrier yapping foolishly at his knees.