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Everybody goes home in a sentimental glow and the native born working-man reads his Sydney Bulletin over a long-sleever and execrates the name of the country which bore his father and mother.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

Beatrice Patrick Campbell is especially an artist, and her talent is that of charm and thought: she execrates beaten paths; she wants to create, and she creates.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah

Raoul of Montjoire execrates the black-frocked militia as much as I do myself.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

His very style foams, rages, prays, entreats, adjures, weeps, screams, warns, and execrates.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various