Example Sentences

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And he went on speaking of the hard things of life, of the blackness and execrableness of humanity, without losing his gentle smile.

From Doctor Pascal by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)

Think of the monotonous execrableness of the thirty that went before it, to leave this one simple breakfast looming up in my memory like a shot- tower after all these years have gone by!

From Roughing It, Part 2. by Twain, Mark