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I wish you may not be going fast, and by the shortest cut, to that horrible and disgustful situation.
Your punishment, Unseemly and disgustful in its kind, Deter you not from opening thus much to me."
He rejected the Palladian style as "ponderous" and "disgustful".
An 18th-century traveler to Polynesia wrote that kava was prepared in a "most disgustful manner."
What is the history of all monarchical governments but a disgustful picture of human wretchedness, and the accidental respite of a few years' repose?
But inform Me who thou art, that in a place so sad Art set, and in such torment, that although Other be greater, more disgustful none Can be imagin'd."
Robert Adam rejected the Palladian style, as introduced to England by Inigo Jones, and advocated by Lord Burlington, as "ponderous" and "disgustful".
It is observed by Venturi, that the word "rance" does not here signify "rancid or disgustful," as it is explained by the old commentators, but "orange-coloured," in which sense it occurs in the Purgatory, Canto II.
These wretches, who ne'er lived, Went on in nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that mix'd with tears dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful worms was gather'd there.