"Detest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sit on a rock While I'm raising the wind, But the storm once abated, I'm gentle and kind; I see kings at my feet, Who wait but my nod, To kneel in the dust Which my footsteps have trod. Though seen by the world, I'm known but to few; The Gentiles detest me, I'm pork to the Jew. I never have past But one night in the dark, And that was with Noah, Alone, in the ark. My weight is three pounds, My length is a mile, And when I'm discover'd, You'll say, with a smile, My first and my last Are the wish ...
— Notes & Queries,No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 • Various
... forthe in his worde / wherfore he that will do godd acceptable seruice / muste do that which his worde teachethe / and in suche wise as it techethe / els as the lorde by the Prophet Esaie sayeth / he dothe detest and ...
— A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful • Peter Martyr
... put James Lampton on paper when he created Colonel Sellers, and the story of the Hawkins family as told in The Gilded Age reflects clearly the struggle of those days. The words "Tennessee land," with their golden promise, became his earliest remembered syllables. He grew to detest them in time, for they came ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... he mused aloud, "though she did not inspire me with love. Beauty: that is the true religion, that is the shrine of worship, as the Greeks understood it; beauty of woman. Woman was born to express beauty, man to express strength. We detest weakness in a man, and a homely woman is a crime. And so De Brissac passed violently? And his oaths of vengeance were breaths on a mirror. Ah well, I had ceased to hate him these twenty years. Did he love yonder woman, or ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath
... cool than your present quiescence, or you cannot expect that any amount of love should be strong enough to prevent your affianced from resenting your conduct. I am doubly anxious; quite as anxious that Kilcullen, whom I detest, should not get young Wyndham's money, as I am that you should. He is utterly, utterly smashed. If he got double the amount of Fanny Wyndham's cash, it could not keep him above water for more than a year or so; and then she must go down with him. ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
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