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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- First, Thou must abhor his turning thee out of the way; and thine own consenting thereunto: because this is to reject the counsel of God for the sake of the counsel of a Worldly Wiseman.
- The Lord says, "Strive to enter in at the strait gate" [Luke 13:24], the gate to which I sent thee; for "strait is the gate that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." [Matt. 7:14] From this little wicket-gate, and from the way thereto, hath this wicked man turned thee, to the bringing of thee almost to destruction; hate, therefore, his turning thee out of the way, and abhor thyself for hearkening to him.
- Nay, hold, let us consider of one at once. I think you should rather say, It shows itself by inclining the soul to abhor its sin.
- 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
- "Thus I relieve thee, my creator," he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung from me with violence; "thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor.
- My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal.
- How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me!
