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Strange, but I was not in the least angry with Corkran, whom I had been execrating.

From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

"Like all Irish patriots," including Grattan, Wolfe Tone "would have accepted greedily any tolerable appointment from the Government which he had been execrating."

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)