My dear Alicia,--There needed not this last fit of the gout to make me
detest Mr.
You know how I
detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner.
'I
detest them all!' replied she, shaking her bright ringlets in vivacious scorn.
"Yes, for you who
detest those unhappy princes, Beauchamp, and are always delighted to find fault with them; but not for me, who discover a gentleman by instinct, and who scent out an aristocratic family like a very bloodhound of heraldry."
"I could stand the aunts, but there are dozens of cousins, dreadful boys all of them, and I
detest boys!
Yet you, my creator,
detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
I
detest such creatures; and it would be much better for them that their faces had been seamed with the smallpox; but I must confess, I never saw any of this wanton behaviour in poor Jenny: some artful villain, I am convinced, hath betrayed, nay perhaps forced her; and I pity the poor wretch with all my heart."
"Not envious, let us say, since he has talent; but it annoys him that a wealthy man of the highest society, and a count, too (you know they all
detest a title), can, without any particular trouble, do as well, if not better, than he who has devoted all his life to it.
TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and
detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon.
I
detested his pink, bald head, and his yellow whiskers, always soft and glistening.
Now money-making, as we say, being twofold, it may be applied to two purposes, the service of the house or retail trade; of which the first is necessary and commendable, the other justly censurable; for it has not its origin in [1258b] nature, but by it men gain from each other; for usury is most reasonably
detested, as it is increasing our fortune by money itself, and not employing it for the purpose it was originally intended, namely exchange.
She would not consent to remain with Edna, for Monsieur Ratignolle was alone, and he
detested above all things to be left alone.