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Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Abhorrence

The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 219.

Boils and plagues
Plaster you o’er, that you may be abhorr’d
Further than seen.
Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 37.

How abhorred in my imagination it is!
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 206.

***few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.
Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 60.

***more abhorr’d
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
Troilus and Cressida. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 18.

***make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.
Southey—Curse of Kehama. VIII. 9.