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In the most passionate language of self-abhorrence, he accuses himself of all manner of sins, yet it is improbable that he appeared to others what in later life he appeared to himself.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

To say that poor Ebony was filled with horror, as well as shame and self-abhorrence, is but a feeble statement.

From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Pearson, Francis B.

He was aghast at himself and too full of self-abhorrence to do more than fight blindly away from what he could not but see.

From Father Stafford by Hope, Anthony

He looked at the man's cocked hat and sword with tears in his eyes; he hoped for some practical application of the wrath of heaven, something that would express violently his dead-weight of self-abhorrence.

From Madame De Mauves by James, Henry

They looked inward with a self-abhorrence now inseparable from their existence.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver