“It is, without question, the most abominable piece of writing in existence,” said Anthony.

But that night he lay awake until after four, half wild with grief and fear and abominable imaginings.

Her entrance had been abominable⁠—in fact not until she reached the phone had she displayed a shred of poise⁠—and then the test had been over.

No, the fallow squares of earth will be most frequent⁠—they’ll be along beside the track like dirty coarse brown sheets drying in the sun, alive, mechanical, abominable.

Nevertheless, though, as the days passed, the glory of her hair dimmed perceptibly for him and in a year of separation might have departed completely, the six weeks held many abominable days.