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"Widows and orphans are execrating your father's name all over the land� he has made them lose their all."

From Time Magazine Archive

Strongly convinced of the divinity of the Church, his passionate nature could not help execrating the human element that would weaken her influence.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)

And in what glowing verse has Tasso described all the delicious pain of such a situation! now proud of his fetters, now execrating them in despair.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Furiously he dashed into the thick of the conflict, and Triboulet, paralyzed with fear and dropping his lance, was borne helplessly onward, execrating the nag and his capricious humor.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

All concurred in execrating the author or authors of this horrid deed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various