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A thought soon troubled her delicious reverie, and she inquired: "Peradventure, then, the creed which I have execrated may be truer and better than that which I have professed?"

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

The Italian historians have execrated him for this act, which they regard as that of a traitor.

From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian