In the first place, his handwriting was so
abominably bad that she was obliged to guess at his meaning.
They spell it so
abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like.
When the visitor has mounted the crumbling steps of this ancient donjon, he reaches a little plateau where, in the seventeenth century, Georges Philibert de Sequigny, Lord of the Glandier, Maisons-Neuves and other places, built the existing town in an
abominably rococo style of architecture.
Are we so
abominably selfish, that we can be concerned at others having possession even of what we despise?
You did not write it yourself but translated it, and translated it
abominably, because you don't even know French, you fool.' And what do you think?
No doubt he must have been
abominably sea-sick and
abominably unhappy --this soft and passionate adventurer, taken thus out of his knowledge, and feeling bitterly as he lay in his emigrant bunk his utter loneliness; for his was a highly sensitive nature.
Brooke will scratch up a fortune somehow, carry her off, and make a hole in the family, and I shall break my heart, and everything will be
abominably uncomfortable.
White, the banker's wife, complained to the tele- graph company, saying that the office in Winesburg was dirty and smelled
abominably, but nothing came of her complaint.
There appears to be no doubt, sir, that John has been
abominably used.'
"It is evident," said he to himself, "that I have been
abominably drunk!
"We are wasting time most
abominably. Something must be fixed on.
I shook him by the hand, but by this time he was haw-haw-hawing so
abominably that a disgust of him swelled up within me, and with it a passionate desire to jeer once more at Mary A--