Dr. M'Crie, cursing the catholic with a catholic's curse, execrates "the stale sophistry of this calumniator."
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
He execrates Racine, and treats him as a sorry sort of man.
"Balzac"
Frederick Lawton
It is a triumph of the poetic or artistic part of the author's nature over the merely political part, that he should have made even his type of the old feudal order which he execrates so bitterly, a heroic, if ever so little also a diabolic, personage.
"Studies in Literature"
John Morley