Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.
We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
Nature abhors a garden.
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
Nature abhors the old.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. . . A wise and frugal government. . . shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. . . Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated. . . Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?
