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The best thing to come out of this is to pursue all those who have made our country no better then any other country that has pursued the hainous crime of Torture.

Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says 2009

Also, many other hainous and abominable villanies doeth that brutish beastly people commit: and I sawe many moe strange things among them which I meane not here to insert.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

Perchance for need do that which were right hainous in his sight.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

He made his first appearance as an author in 1631, in a poem entitled 'David's hainous Sin, heartie

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

Then I began, "If, madam, you design to be more severe with us, be yet so kind as to dispatch it quickly; for whate'er our offence be, it is not so hainous that we ought to be rack'd to death for it": Upon which her woman, whose name was Psyche, spread a coverlet on the floor,

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

And likelie it was that they would passe but little for their disgrading and losse of their order, who in contempt of their calling would not absteine from committing most mischieuous abhominations and hainous enormities.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

And alone, mention'd to me the hainous faults of my wife, who the very first word ask'd my daughter why she married my Son except she lov'd him?

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

In accomplishing of which hainous crime and detestable act, many others were of counsell, and found giltie with him, which escaped not vnpunished.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

The pope was much offended, and determined to haue the matter throughlie considered and ordered, so as might stand with his dignitie, and accordinglie as the hainous state of the case required.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

Finally, he antedated the simplified spellers by inventing a long list of boldly phonetic spellings, ranging from tung for tongue to wimmen for women, and from hainous for heinous to cag for keg.

Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster Henry Louis 1921