| 1. | "I don't execrate this Government. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | Some admire it, like de Maistre others execrate it, like Beccaria. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell. - from Candide by Voltaire |
| 6. | Treville said to himself "If the cardinal has set this young fox upon me, he will certainly not have failed--he, who knows how bitterly I execrate him--to tell his spy that the best means of making his court to me is to rail at him. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | It execrated him even more than it did Robespierre. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | He neither wept nor prayed he cursed and defied execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 9. | They both execrated the place in very strong language, and gradually growled themselves out, and had nothing left to say. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 10. | He execrates "the cures." One day, in the Rue de l'Universite, one of these scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |