| 1. | Whence and what art thou, execrable shape. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Give sentence on the execrable wretc. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | "I am finishing the most execrable morning's work.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable the wine, which had always been bad, became fearfully bad. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | A God's mask have ye hung in front of you, ye "pure ones" into a God's mask hath your execrable coiling snake crawled. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |