Word: abhors
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...trust that our acquaintance with the horrors which so many brave young men are experiencing in Europe will be no closer than in the descriptions of men who have lived through them. We may know that should the necessities of existence impel us to a course we abhor but do not shun, neither the fearfulness nor the tragedy of war will keep one true man back...
...then the paramount duty to save the country properly silences private doubts. But it does not follow that whenever the government proposes any position on foreign affairs all criticism shall be dumb, and the nation shall follow docilely into any extreme, even into a war which the people may abhor. What is popular government, if the people have surrendered their right to consider every step of a policy which is officially announced as destined to lead, in one not improbable alternative, to a conclusion which must convulse the nation and may affect the civilization of the world? The fact...
...friend about her. "In the meantime, my friend," he goes on, "I am happy enough to have a dear infidel; but don't think her unfaithful, I could not love her if she was. There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound to him who was her husband; he has used her shockingly ill. Is she not then free? She is, it is clear, and no argument can disguise it. She is now mine, and were...