How To Use Odious In A Sentence
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[Footnote 1: The King, Walagambahu, who in his exile had been living amongst the rocks in the wilderness, ascended the throne after defeating the Malabars (B.C. 104), and "caused _the of stone or caves of the rocks_ in which he had taken refuge to be made more commodious.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The two ends put together form one constant table for everything, and the centre piece stands exceedingly well under the glass, and holds a great deal most commodiously.
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She spoke in a quietly melodious voice.
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the melodious song of a meadowlark
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When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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But I have to say, I did fast forward through that dreadful speech by the odious brother and through the drippy prayers from the drippy archbish.
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After churning out some of Bollywood's most melodious tunes, music directors and partners Jatin-Lalit are all set to go.
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Tasteful decor, melodious songs and shafts of sunlight from the ample windows provide the perfect ambience for appreciating the subtleties and splendours of curry cuisine.
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Although first cousin to the melodious mockingbird, a catbird's song is seldom musical.
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It's not about protecting people from themselves, as odious as even that is.
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`Danlo," came a melodious voice from the room's depths, `Ni luria la, ni luria manse vi Alaloi, Danlo the Wild, son of Haidar.
THE BROKEN GOD
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With Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in crisis -- yes, Roger really did do nothing about the impending loss of Lucky Strike and the ever odious Lee Garner Jr. really did let word seep out sooner than his promised 30 days -- Peggy performs well by giving her previously scheduled pitch on a campaign for one of Playtex's female products.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later
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Others were tories, and adherents to the old kingly rule; some of whom took refuge within the British lines, joined the royal bands of refugees, a name odious to the American ear, and occasionally returned to harass their ancient neighbors.
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
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Canada and others walked out on the odious Ahmadinejad’s battological drivel, thus sparing themselves from a similar breakdown, while Obama made the rather curious statement:
2009 September « Anglican Samizdat
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Indeed, that was a problem early in the case when one of the attorneys withdrew precisely because of the crime's odiousness.
Joel Cohen: When Criminal Lawyers Go to the Edge
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And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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A melodious music movement a cute cartoon may contain a mind weapon.
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Running her tiny fingers on the keyboard, Ksemya plays such melodious music that the after-effect lingers on for a while.
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The commodious hall was almost full and on the makeshift stage musical instruments were being installed and tested by the accompanists.
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Among the acts that took to the stage were hilarious novelty acts, rhythmic dance routines, some melodious individual singing, harmonious duets and even a few notable musicians.
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My bed is something like the carpets in Queen Elizabeth's time, and this shelter-tent is not one which can be called commodious, but
The Associate Hermits
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Several pages of this book recall the salutary rigour of the Dragonades; and that odious passage, in which a man distinguished for his talents and his private virtues, the Count de Maistre (Soirees de St. Petersbourg tome 2 page 121) justifies the Inquisition of Portugal “which he observes has only caused some drops of guilty blood to flow.”
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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While Harman may rank even worse than Specter or Lincoln on scales of odiousness, Harman's challenger Marcy Winograd is far more progressive than Joe Sestak (who beat Specter) and Bill Halter (Lincoln's surging foe).
Norman Solomon: When the Leaders Lead, the People Have Sorrow
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In Asha's case, it was her melodious voice that led her to Carnegie Hall.
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She spoke Galactic with an exotic accent and in a voice that was strong, melodious and full of authority.
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The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
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Are calling my housebound octogenarian mum odious?
Cucumber Sandwich. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Who is he whose hair is of the carroty hue? whose eyes, across a snubby bunch of a nose, are perpetually scowling at each other; who has a hump-back and a hideous mouth, surrounded with bristles, and crammed full of jutting yellow odious teeth.
A Legend of the Rhine
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Although it measures just 13 1/2 feet square, the dining room feels more commodious thanks to a pair of tall windows on the outside wall and the wide arch that opens to the living room.
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Englishmen when I say that to insult and abuse a man for adopting another faith, however opposed to our own, and even ridiculous in itself, is an odious method in controversy, and for myself I see little to choose between a proselyte of the gate, a renegade Mason, and a demitted Roman Catholic.
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
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Then it wouldn't have this history of odiousness.
One Drop Of Bloody History
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For my own part, however, I cannot but wonder, since he had divined and predicted that heterogeneous matter could be discharged by the course he indicates, why he could not or would not perceive, and inform us that, in the natural state of things, the blood might be commodiously transferred from the lungs to the left ventricle of the heart by the very same route.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is melodious, lush, and dense with meaning.
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Instead of the melodious tones of an Irish brogue, the exaggerated drawl of an angry young man spat from the earpiece.
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In their country, in their family, they will be able to find a normal life, to leave the odious control to which they are subjected.
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Nothing strikes one as more painful and odious in the ways of that Court and that Parliament than the language of sickening sycophancy which is used by all statesmen alike in public {86} with regard to kings and princes, for whom in private they could find no words of abuse too strong and coarse, no curse too profane.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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It is because monarchy was beginning to be odious in the eyes of the European democracy, when contrasted with our antagonistical system of the divine right of the people.
The Right of American Slavery
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I'm going to ignore the fact that he used the odious phrase "women of a certain age" and just hope to high hell that we don't see an "Oh Susan Ugh!" or "Susan B-eautiful" line of polyester blend slacks and sensible pantsuits coming to a K-mart near you anytime soon.
The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
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A set of rooms next to mine was vacant, and Campion, who welcomed a new worker, had the two sets thrown into what house-agents term a commodious flat.
Simon the Jester
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Not to mention the unmelodious and meaningless songs they parrot.
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June 18th, 2006 at 5:20 pm being a rather good fellator myself — the very idea of an odious toad like Snitchens writing about the subject is something I find profoundly distasteful !
Firedoglake » Face the Snark
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Men guilty of the most odious and contemptible crimes.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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However, being derived from a car designed to be driven by granddads in hats there's no shortage of headroom in the front, while being a four-door saloon it's quite commodious for average size adults in the back too.
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The one monkey I liked, and that at a distance, was the wa-wa, whose voice was very sweet and melodious, like the soft bubbling of water; but it was a very melancholy animal, and never seemed to possess the fun and trickishness of the more common sorts of ape.
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak
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Josef Suk can always be counted upon to produce good, well crafted and melodious music and these three compositions certainly live up to that description.
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What is morally odious is the cool and disinterested way in which the commentariat is discussing what might fairly be described as racial cleansing.
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Call it grievous, call it odious, that we may by all means possible put ourselves and others out of love with it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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King John was keen to fight; the States General gave him the means for carrying on war, by establishing the odious "gabelle" on salt, and other imposts.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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The new car has a more commodious cabin than the old model, particularly in the rear.
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As tragic events unfolded in Europe, Luce ran his thriving magazine empire with an odious tilt.
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What makes inversions especially odious is that the U.S. companies typically don't move to the foreign home—they keep their operations here.
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The palace building was commodious enough to accommodate chambers and offices of the High Court.
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The caravanserai is a big, commodious affair, a quadrangular structure of brick surrounding fully an acre of ground, and with a small open space outside.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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In a commodious alcove, in a glow of pink light from above, was a life-sized group of musicians -- statues in colored metal of a Spanish girl playing a mandora, an Italian with a slender calascione, a Russian playing his jorbon, and an African playing a banjo.
The Changing Sun
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she sings rather unmelodiously
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Let us not be too hasty in pressing any opinion arising and divulged with odious consequences of sedition, turbulency, and the like, because tumults and troubles happen in the commonwealth where it is asserted.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Her voice modulation is of the highest caliber, very melodious, full of harmonious unity and solid stamina.
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It makes it all deliciously, dialectically melodious.
HBO's 'Sunset Limited' review: All aboard the theological choo-choo
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The conductor and the orchestra have played the melodious and popular classics ad infinitum and they want a change.
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The door opened on to the pleasant, commodious room shared by the Armstrongs, an excuse for a small sitting-room led off to the right.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
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But when the filter is in the attic or somewhere else that is fairly inaccessible, this becomes an odious chore that is often left undone.
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The valley reechoed her clear and melodious singing.
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And when Sheikh Sa'di and Rumi have been purged of every occurrence of "shoma ', and all of Bengali literature expurgated of the odious" tui "and" apni ", then and then only will we achieve a non-hierarchic, democratic order, and not before that.
REGIME CHANGE, LANGUAGE CHANGE
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And therfore this as the rest breadeth no hinderance to this most commodious discouery.
The Worldes Hydrographical Discription
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The only other notable performance might be Gordon Tanner's stellar turn as the thoroughly odious Bruce.
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Dr. Kenn, having a conscience void of offence in the matter, was still inclined to persevere, was still averse to give way before a public sentiment that was odious and contemptible; but he was finally wrought upon by the consideration of the peculiar responsibility attached to his office, of avoiding the appearance of evil, an appearance that is always dependent on the average quality of surrounding minds.
V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue
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The present situation constitutionally is more of an incommodious interregnum.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The second, with its mixture of monosyllables and disyllables - listen, walking, chamber - sustains the alliterative flourish of Melting melodious words.
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Upon hearing the news, neighbor Amy Seidenwurm headed over to the store, donned her bee suit, and bravely herded the bees to a cardboard box, transferring them to "greener pastures where the flowers are dripping with nectar and hives are clean and commodious.
Boing Boing
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In its native habitat, the Canary Islands, the bird is a nondescript greenish songster with a melodious warble.
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Go here and send some letters, lets rid ourselves of this odious wretch: firedoglake/pickler
Fire Nedra Pickler
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In her clear, melodious voice, she stated that she was naturally empathic-she could feel the emotions of others- and that she was a telepath.
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A commodious dwelling house with a spacious garden that included a fish pond, was also part of the property.
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And the rods are commodiously arranged on either side of the ankles, so as not to interfere with the position of the limb; and the wound is easily examined and easily arranged.
On Fractures
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Men guilty of the most odious and contemptible crimes.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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I knew to what tortures the odious little flirt of a Nora would put me with her eternal coquetries with the officers, and refused for a long time to be one of the party to the ball.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Suddenly, quite suddenly, the idea of exertion, of any effort whatever, was become odious to him ... odious and unthinkable.
Ultima Thule
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Having said this in his First Book of Good Deeds, he says again, that both commodiousness and grace pertain to mean or indifferent things, none of which according to them, is profitable.
Essays and Miscellanies
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This carping is an odious theme we hear constantly from Angela.
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Well in that case, Mr Annan, you'd better start by disavowing yourself and your odious organisation.
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And new state regulations restrict some of the most odious insurance practices.
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A year ago the necessities of Alfred Waltham's affairs had led to a change; he and his wife and their two children, together with Mrs. Waltham the dowager, removed to what the auctioneers call a commodious residence on the outskirts of Belwick.
Demos
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It was something after the order of the purple martin's melodious sputter, only the tones were richer and fuller and the music better defined, as became a genuine oscine.
Birds of the Rockies
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It was being pulled down to make way for a larger, more commodious building.
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This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe.
Madame Bovary
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The mother said, her accent giving her speech a melodious tone.
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Melodious tunes rang out through the day until late afternoon, entertaining streams of visitors and fellow students.
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The King was accused of sympathy with the Protestant cause, which made his name odious to the Catholic University of Paris.
Heroes of Modern Europe
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Spenser, sought diligently to compose in the quantitative metres of the classics; Puttenham, the author of one of the first English treatises on the Art of Poetry (1589), declared that by "leisurable travail" one might "easily and commodiously lead all those feet of the ancients into our vulgar language"; but while they may have satisfied themselves
The Principles of English Versification
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A commodious dock box can be one of the most effective ways to reduce wasted fuel by giving you a place to store unneeded gear.
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He has added feedback, distorted organs and drones to his melodious soundscape, and his folk songs have become all the more beautiful yet disturbing in their increasingly gothic strangeness.
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I also enjoyed Howard Shelley's playing in the concluding Allegro moderato which is also very melodious.
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The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit.
The Complete Father Brown
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And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.
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Although first cousin to the melodious mockingbird, a catbird's song is seldom musical.
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'commodious' by 'commodious as a college building' without altering our conclusion; though we can guess that the recipient, who thought he was in the lion-house of the Zoo, would be less likely to assent to.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
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Side below which a rugid black rock about 20 feet biter than the Common high fluds of the river with Several dry Chapels which appeared to Choke the river up quite across; this I took to be the 2d falls or the place the nativs above call timm, The nativs of this village reived me verry kindly, one of whome envited me into his house, which I found to be large and comodious, and the first wooden houses in which Indians have lived Since we left those in the vicinty of the
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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He was thin and gaunt, with an odious pinched white face and fierce big black bushy eyebrows.
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The house is old fashioned and irregular, but lodgeable and commodious.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The discourse abounds with just observation, applicable to all ranks of men; and, if properly attended to by that infatuated emperor, might have prevented the perpetration of those acts of cruelty, which, with his other extravagancies, have rendered his name odious to posterity.
De vita Caesarum
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The decision was made for me as the violin quartet over in one corner of the bookstore started to play something soft and melodious.
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It is precisely in such periods that the lies of the state assume an ever more blatant and odious character.
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The Waldenses (of whom the Albigenses are a species) were," he says, "never free from the most wretched excess of fascination;" and finally, though he allows the conduct of the judges to have been most odious, he cannot prevail on himself to acquit the parties charged by such interested accusers with horrors which should hardly have been found proved even upon the most distinct evidence.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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Part of the "commodiousness" of a building should be how it serves people who may never enter it.
Frank Gruber: Urban Design, the Book: Part Two of a Review
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On the other hand, these odious principles are already so extensively discussed, and have been so clearly laid down in all their indefensibility, that I may here deal with them briefly.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English
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This recording is exciting, gorgeous, weaving the rhythm of the drum with melodious strings, wind instruments and female chant.
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Howard is an odious skippet of turbod flatulence, but hey, he makes you laugh, so he can say whatever, regardless of how perverted and demented it may be.
Op-ed: Farewell to the FCC « BuzzMachine
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The door opened on to the pleasant, commodious room shared by the Armstrongs, an excuse for a small sitting-room led off to the right.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Apartment buildings and individual apartments must be commodiously planned with well-designed kitchens and baths, soundproofed walls and floors, ample daylighting, reliable elevators, well-appointed public spaces and attractive landscaping.
How to make rentals more attractive as the American dream evolves, adapts
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The door opened on to the pleasant, commodious room shared by the Armstrongs, an excuse for a small sitting-room led off to the right.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The cold morning breeze and a festive ambience, the chime of bells and melodious carols signal the arrival of Christmas.
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I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
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That means also that the world round them has again returned to the Greek conviction, that all nature, especially human nature, is not entirely melodious nor luminous; but a barred and broken thing: that saints have their foibles, sinners their forces; that the most luminous virtue is often only a flash, and the blackest-looking fault is sometimes only a stain: and, without confusing in the least black with white, they can forgive, or even take delight in things that are like the [Greek: nebris], dappled.
Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
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And the reason is, his--I think that people may perceive a certain odiousness about his foreign-policy views.
Playing the Field
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Nature is very liberal in all things; and we have coarse and disagreeable flower odors, supplied by peonies, marigolds, the gay bouvardia, and a still more odious greenhouse flower -- a yellowish, toadlike thing, which those who have once known will never forget, and for which perhaps they can supply a name.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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‘It's pop, rock, grunge, heavy, melodious, punk - a mix of all this,’ says the singer.
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And "cipher" is the nom de guerre of Le Chiffre, the numbers-man racketeer of the French Communist Party and perhaps the most odiously sadistic of Fleming's villains.
Bottoms Up
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I use the word odious because the debt was largely incurred by the last government which did not represent us," Meer said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Her voice was soft and melodious, hypnotizing and somehow beckoning.
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Then there were exchanged certain melodious acerbities, which proved that these ladies had entered the lists on previous occasions, and that each was well practised in the other's methods of warfare.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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The hardest, foulest, most odious fact of all that he has to acknowledge is that much of his uncle, blood-kin truly, as of his mother, and no doubt his greatly admired father as well, is pullulating in him and in all of us.
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But all the rest heretofore remembered in this chapter there is none more ugly and odious in sight, cruel and fierce in deed, nor untractable in hand, than that which is begotten between the bear and the bandog.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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In battle, in travelling, and on other occasions, this added much to the commodiousness and grace of the costume.
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Upended, paneled inside and out with mirrors that made its bulk disappear, and outfitted with two bare bulbs at the apex, it had an intentionally incommodious opening the size of a small door.
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The change, indeed, was an unpleasant one, from a large, commodious house, to what they called a castle, which was, in fact, a most loathsome prison.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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Now back under your stone you odious little toad.
The Sun
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'On my life, Stanley, I'll acquaint Mr. Wylder this evening with what you meditate, and the atrocious liberty you presume -- yes, Sir, though you are my brother, the _atrocious liberty_ you dare to take with my name -- unless you promise, upon your honour, now and here, to dismiss for ever the odious and utterly resultless scheme.'
Wylder's Hand
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i agree that zoe wasn't nearly as odious as I thought she would be. i guess there's "tay" in the truly obnoxious role. what's the deal with rodger? many things don't seem to fit with him / them. and zoe has shaved almost 10 years of her age. born in '62 not' 71
Pretty On The Outside
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consequences odious to those you govern
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We must hold the scales of justice in equipoise, and however odious the offence, we must admeasure right to every one according to law.
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One really shouldn't engage in atrocity one-upmanship, but it's arguable that compared with such more famous current and recent fugitives as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Karadzic, wins the odiousness sweepstakes.
Karadzic finally arrested for war crimes
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He spoke with his ladies in a friendly, melodious voice as he carried out boxes of expensive, impractical footwear for their pleasure and delight.
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I have to engage the passions of others by painting him as vicious or odious or depraved: hateful in general.
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Brumm has studied how nightingales - famed for their melodious song - respond to the hustle and bustle in the German capital city of Berlin.
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Howsoever, pure water is best, and which (as Pindarus holds) is better than gold; an especial ornament it is, and very commodious to a city (according to [2908] Vegetius) when fresh springs are included within the walls, as at Corinth, in the midst of the town almost, there was arx altissima scatens fontibus, a goodly mount full of fresh water springs: if nature afford them not they must be had by art.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Rosewater greeted her with melodious warmth, asked how she was today.
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To close the tale, about three months after the battle of Nancy, the banished Earl of Oxford resumed his name of Philip son, bringing with his lady some remnants of their former wealth, which enabled them to procure a commodious residence near to Geierstein; and the Landamman’s interest in the state procured for them the right of denizenship.
Anne of Geierstein
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The very sight of this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there,the fiacre was far away.
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I seem to hear pronounced by some of his kin at such a time his original wild name in some jawbreaking or else melodious tongue.
Walking
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Perceiving that we are watching him the grosbeak ceases his ringing tones and drops into that dreamy, soft, melodious warble, which is characteristic of this songster as it is of the catbird.
Some Spring Days in Iowa
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The songs are frequently manic and frenzied but just before you burn out they slow down and become melodious.
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And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.
Vanity Fair
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He did so, and after passing through some of the intricate avenues common in old houses, was ushered into a small apartment, commodiously fitted up, in which he found Father Buonaventure reclining on a couch, in the attitude of a man exhausted by fatigue or indisposition.
Redgauntlet
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She was permitted, nay encouraged, to make use of all the rooms, so elegantly and commodiously furnished, in Bluebeard Castle, with one exception.
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Thanks for adding your rich voice to this melodious group.
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For a length of years, the office, as mentioned in the text, was held in commendam with that of the executioner; for when this odious but necessary officer of justice received his appointment, he petitioned the Court of Justiciary to be received as their Dempster, which was granted as a matter of course.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Alas there is no reason why the most odious, contemptible people might not be able to make the sweetest, most wonderful creations.
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In the background I overhear Tom and Trisha exchanging a conversation in melodious polysyllables.
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He was unmarried and so had no use of the commodious house in the College to which he was entitled, but lived in rooms there.
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Then they tell me: ‘But when we go to the Shanghai Concert Hall, we hear mostly unmelodious noise which turns us off completely.’
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A golden bird sang a melodious song as it sat, perched in a glittering green tree.
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Alas there is no reason why the most odious, contemptible people might not be able to make the sweetest, most wonderful creations.
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For in nature as in simple bodies, when there is an accumulation of much superfluous matter, it very often moves by itself and makes a purgation which is healthy to that body; and so it happens in this compound body of the human race, that when all the provinces are full of inhabitants so that they cannot live or go elsewhere in order to occupy and fill up all places, and when human astuteness and malignity has gone as far as they can go, it happens of necessity that the world purges itself in one of the three ways, so that men having been chastised and reduced in number, live more commodiously and become better.
Discourses
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Heuberger's talent is of the graceful style; he is not very original but his waltzes and "Laendlers" have the true Viennese ring, and the kirmess in the first act is very characteristic; it is melodious and
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
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However, being derived from a car designed to be driven by granddads in hats there's no shortage of headroom in the front, while being a four-door saloon it's quite commodious for average size adults in the back too.
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The escalator opened onto a commodious red velvet lounge, in which there was a large oak bar lining one wall and already quite a few customers.
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He adds, therefore, p. 276, “To say that God putteth a case in such solemnity and emphaticalness of words and phrase as are remarkable all along in the carriage of the place in hand, of which there is no possibility that it should ever happen or be exemplified in reality of event, and this in vindication of himself and the equity of his dealings and proceedings with men, is to bring a scandal and reproach of weakness upon that infinite wisdom of his which magnifies itself in all his works; which also is so much the more unworthy and unpardonable when there is a sense commodious, every way worthy as well the infinite wisdom as the goodness of God, pertinent and proper to the occasion he hath in hand, which offers itself plainly and clearly.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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As a 15th century merchant's home, it would have proved most commodious.
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A feeling of odiousness has gone from the room and for a chance I can sleep without wondering if my death is to come.
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Our little party now separated, and got into two post-chaises, each of which hold three persons, though it must be owned three cannot sit quite so commodiously in these chaises as two: the hire of a post-chaise is a shilling for every English mile.
Travels in England in 1782
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We look forward to a successful appeal, and hopefully in the not-too-distant future to hearing the melodious tones of the carillon once again.
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a commodious building suitable for conventions
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The cassette has one soulful, melodious stretch of instrumental music that is sure to be soothing to anyone listening to it.
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Liberal, beneficent, and traditional ideas have returned to their rightful place through the dispersal of the odious and despicable factions which sought to overawe the Councils.
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Organisers feel it is a great opportunity for the public to hear the pleasant and melodious jazz harmonies in a great natural environment and mountains during August summer nights.
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Many older drivers shy away from the growing breed of commodious, family-orientated ‘people carriers’.
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It was natural that the descendant of the Incas should desire to relieve his race from so odious an imputation; and we must have charity for him, if he does show himself, on some occasions, where the honor of his country is at stake, "high gravel-blind."
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Blatant cheating is considered less offensive than the utterance of odious words.
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It's hard to see how the odiousness of a crime can indicate that it was not the product of an ‘internal dysfunction.’
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Performing 'puja' and singing melodious religious hymns outside the temple compound, most of the Pandits said they will pray for absolute peace in their prayers.
Thousands of Kashmiri Pandits,visit their homeland to pay obeisance at Kheer Bhawani in Kashmir
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The chief hotel at Sherton – Abbas was an old stone-fronted inn with a yawning arch, under which vehicles were driven by stooping coachmen to back premises of wonderful commodiousness.
The Woodlanders
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(all that was objectionable was attributed to this poor lady) had been so abominably clear-sighted, so odiously presuming as to have suspected this, his sudden blaze of anger was _foudroyant_.
The Marriage of Elinor
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Instead of the melodious tones of an Irish brogue, the exaggerated drawl of an angry young man spat from the earpiece.
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Pray do not talk of that odious man.
Pride and Prejudice
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The first European to set eyes on the island, he was sorry to go, ‘leaving the said land with much regret because of its commodiousness and beauty, thinking it was not without some properties of value’.
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It was in the commodious attic of this house that she created her private museum.
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By comparison, their playing was straight, sometimes lumpy, with no attempts to arch the phrases in a melodious fashion.
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They anxiously sought to avoid the admission of expressions which might be odious in the ears of of Americans, although they were willing to admit into their system those _things_ which the _expressions_ signified.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
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A golden bird sang a melodious song as it sat, perched in a glittering green tree.
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She could hear lots of laughter, endless and melodious, mingling with sweet beautiful music and songs sung by heavenly voices.
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It is a very commodious and pleasant voyage, hauing on both sides of the riuers many great vilages, which they call Cities: in the which hennes, pigeons, egges, milke, rice, and other things be very goode cheape.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Located by London's Temple Bar, this bank was old-fashioned, dark and incommodious.
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suspicioned" that she could tell things if she were one of those odious persons who carried tales, which of course she was not.
The Henchman
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incommodious hotel accommodations
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When those "Spring's delights" of which you melodiously twangle are a leetle more _en évidence_.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892
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It would obviously be a more commodious property in Berkshire…
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We can, as to the house, live here commodiously enough; and our only present consideration is, on what we are to live: a consideration, however, which as lovers, I believe in strictness we ought to be much above!
The History of Emily Montague
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Those idle rimes to note the odious spot and blemish that deformes the lineaments of modern poesies habiliments.
Shakspere and Montaigne
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Her odious character is matched by her physical repellance.
Cherie Plumbs the Depths
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So the film finishes and we lie and chat amiably in my big commodious bed.
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Mr Keith, the collector of Excise here, my old acquaintance at Ayr, who had seen us at the fort, visited us in the evening, and engaged us to dine with him next day, promising to breakfast with us, and take us to the English chapel; so that we were at once commodiously arranged.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Beyond it, in the corner of the room, sat a commodious armchair.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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Odious candles fumed and dribbled a sooty wax upon some (though by no means all) of these tables, and a green and orange lampion with a torn shade swung in the center of the room, seeming to tremble at the high-pitched anger of the voices below it The backs of jostling onlookers obscured what was taking place there.
Nightside The Long Sun
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The houses are usually log-cabins, of various degrees of comfort and commodiousness.
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The chef warrant officer was every bit as odious as Ingrid had been told to expect.
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Beyond it, in the corner of the room, sat a commodious armchair.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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His poetry appears in exuberant colours and only rarely takes on the character of melodious music; but it is all the more plastic in the creation of forms suited to expressing feelings and ideas.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 - Presentation Speech
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This carping is an odious theme we hear constantly from Angela.
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Helped by the police, they were pouring in from barrio and hacienda; the attendance was going up by leaps and bounds, till at last a circulative report showed that Balangilang had passed the odious Cabancalan with its less strenuous school-man, and left it in the ruck by a full hundred.
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