III THE AGONY COLUMN Sofia dated from that afternoon the first stirrings of a discontent which grew in her throughout the summer till everything related to her lot seemed abominable in her sight.

New York has for two generations been noted for a civic corruption which has been, theoretically, abominable to all good citizens, and which the capitalistic class has denounced as abominable to itself.

It is most abominable of the former to have sent it here, and the more so since, in truth, he has not much to boast of.

A new form of edict was now decided on by the stadtholderess and her council; and after various insidious and illegal but successful tricks, the consent of several of the provinces was obtained to the adoption of measures that, under a guise of comparative moderation, were little less abominable than those commanded by the king.

Nothing in nature or art can be so abominable as those vehicles at this hour.

Then she went into details: "You spell abominable with two m'sand that's abominable; you spell ridiculous with a kand that's ridicklous.

On the contrary, it was expressly prohibited in the Book of Mormon, which declares: "Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord. ...

Beyond these are the people of Tebet, who were wont to eat the dead bodies of their parents, from a motive of piety, considering that to be the most honourable sepulchre; but they have discontinued this custom, which was looked upon as abominable by all other nations.

One could have thought the defender would have gratified his spite to the full by comparing the Beetle to a common Lousean animal sufficiently vile and abominable for the purpose of defamation[Shut that door there]but he adds the epithet Egyptian, and I know well what he means by that epithet.

(For the Mirror.) Impoysonments, so ordinarily in Italy, are so abominable amongst English, as 21 Henry VIII.