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  • She had avoided Emily Brent with a kind of shuddering aversion.   (source)
  • However, as time went by, I came to feel that this aversion had no real substance.   (source)
  • she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother.   (source)
  • Even at that time, I had not yet conquered my aversion to the dryness of a life of study.   (source)
  • As lads they had an aversion to each other,   (source)
    aversion = dislike
  • With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.   (source)
    aversion = dislike and desire to avoid
  • But despite his aversion to money and conspicuous consumption, Chris's political leanings could not be described as liberal.†   (source)
  • Whatever the dynamic, it wasn't Claude's only aversion.†   (source)
  • My father, whose aversion to shopping is well known, believes anything that costs more than it did back in Ahwaz in 1946 is overpriced.†   (source)
  • They eat their own kind (the rest of those whose ears and noses they gobbled down as appetizers) once they're dead, after a period of aversion that lasts about one day.†   (source)
  • I need to polish you up a bit, but your aversion to all things fake might just be your greatest asset here.†   (source)
  • Langdon's aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.†   (source)
  • He could have put a bug in their room, taken in the whole show, but he had a strong aversion to that.†   (source)
  • Despite my aversion to school and books of any kind, I feel a pull to them.†   (source)
  • The old aversion to lawsuits fell by the wayside.†   (source)
  • and deducing that so many mice in a two-foot section of baseboard only meant more mice (and more chewed wires) elsewhere, I wondered if despite Hobie's aversion to mousetraps I should set out some myself My suggestion that he get a cat—though welcomed enthusiastically by Hobie and cat-loving Mrs. DeFrees — was discussed with approval but not acted upon and soon sank from view.†   (source)
  • The gift of tongues, aversion to light.†   (source)
  • I also know they have a strong aversion to sunlight, though it won't stop them if they're determined.†   (source)
  • He greatly admired their civility, their refinement, but they persisted in trying to cure his aversion to 'his natural food source,' as they called it.†   (source)
  • He is offered a bargain by the devil (he relinquishes his soul, in the form of spiritual autonomy, in exchange for the freedom awarded for undergoing aversion therapy).†   (source)
  • Lies and aversions.†   (source)
  • Mom's family did not share her aversion to coal mining.†   (source)
  • If the job is boring, overly regimented, or meaningless, it can create a lifelong aversion to work.†   (source)
  • And she would have praised Millicent to the skies for her tidiness, her aversion to noise and mess, her ability to sit or stand still practically forever without squirming or exclaiming.†   (source)
  • We have an aversion to it, she said, choosing the word carefully.†   (source)
  • And I've noticed you have a curious aversion to pretty girls being on the staff.†   (source)
  • Her husband had an aversion to the air of the Andes that he concealed with a variety of excuses: the dangers to the heart of the altitude, the risks of pneumonia, the duplicity of the people, the injustices of centralism.†   (source)
  • He felt inside not only an aversion to it but an attraction to it as well.†   (source)
  • Within Islam there is moreover a general aversion to both photography and art, because people should not compete with God in "creating" anything.†   (source)
  • They say around here that bellies stir up certain cravings or aversions.†   (source)
  • So my interest in the service's potential and my aversion to Reverend Thomas caused me to turn him off.†   (source)
  • As little as I knew about him, I sensed his aversion to Vee as if it were concrete enough to touch.†   (source)
  • The arguments against it were good, the strongest being that Mr. Clutter's aversion to cash was a county legend; he had no safe and never carried large sums of money.†   (source)
  • She remembered how, when Peter was around eleven, he'd developed an aversion to buttons.†   (source)
  • Or they were, in any case, in all of the places he had been assured they could not be found and the need they brought to him was one they scarcely knew they had, which they spent their lives denying, which overtook and drugged them, making their limbs as heavy as those of sleepers or drowning bathers, and which could only be satisfied in the shameful, the punishing dark, and quickly, with flight and aversion as the issue of the act.†   (source)
  • I might be a convicted felon, but as the daughter of teachers, I had a strong aversion to cheating on tests.†   (source)
  • That this should happen here, in public, in the high revel of event—he feels a puzzled wonder that exceeds his aversion.†   (source)
  • Judging from his comments to his associates, his remarks about Chicago's infernal July weather, and his general aversion to racing in "the West," Riddle was almost certainly not considering the Arlington offer.†   (source)
  • To Sergeant Towser, who deplored violence and waste with equal aversion, it seemed like such an abhorrent extravagance to fly Mudd all the way across the ocean just to have him blown into bits over Orvieto less than two hours after he arrived.†   (source)
  • My aversion to violence is well documented.†   (source)
  • Berman, an awkward, high-strung guy with gaze aversion, comes out from behind the table.†   (source)
  • As with wooden stakes, sunlight, and Italian food, vampires have a natural aversion to both punctuation and capitalization.†   (source)
  • Thinking in Zurich of those days, she no longer felt any aversion to the man.†   (source)
  • She'd developed an aversion to him even before he opened his mouth to herd his passengers onto the plane, snapping at them—"Allez!†   (source)
  • I know their aversions and their passions.†   (source)
  • "As it was suddenly proposed, I as suddenly objected to it," Scott later wrote, "from an aversion to giving the enemy a single inch of ground, but was soon convinced by the unanswerable reasons for it."†   (source)
  • Isn't that a natural aversion, a conventional hostility?†   (source)
  • Despite my years of aversion for her, and hers of contempt for me, she folded up into my arms like a child.†   (source)
  • She had heard that he had an aversion to killing people, but, like Sounis, she was reluctant to assume that a childish reluctance for bloodshed would prevent him from following the orders of his queen.†   (source)
  • I'm sure it would reveal a crooked nubibus pathway indicative of lifelong reliance on dogma and aversion to change.†   (source)
  • I will uncover and invoke inclinations and aversions.†   (source)
  • It seemed that Gabriel's aversion to tobacco was well known to the GID.†   (source)
  • Indeed, her aversion to reading about Nuremberg had provided one of her rationalizations for not applying herself to American journalism and thus improving—or at least enlarging—an important compartment of her English.†   (source)
  • It's not unnatural, most of us take some aversion to our teachers, and occasionally another hand can smooth things out.†   (source)
  • An obedient son, he had taken the schoolteacher home to meet his mother when the courtship began, and the two women promptly developed a lively aversion to each other.†   (source)
  • Your aversion for him is natural, but please put your feelings aside.†   (source)
  • It seems hard that Mary, whose charity towards other people's failures and scandals grew out of a genuine, rock-bottom aversion towards the personal things like love and passion, was doomed all her life to be the subject of gossip.†   (source)
  • In short, she was at no pains to conceal her aversion to me.   (source)
    aversion = dislike that leads to avoidance
  • Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.   (source)
  • Her pretence is a pretence of aversion — it's her part to display resistance, his to overcome it.†   (source)
  • They said that if it caught a trespasser, the div was known to overcome its aversion to adult meat.†   (source)
  • Civilized as they were, they didn't feel the same aversion I was beginning to feel.†   (source)
  • Masquerade as a human dwarf, with an aversion to light.†   (source)
  • And yet Genet had an aversion to the hospital and had no interest in following Ghosh or Hema around.†   (source)
  • Jefferson felt insulted by Carmarthen's seeming "aversion to have anything to do with us.†   (source)
  • 'Just why do you think you have such a morbid aversion to fish?' asked Major Sanderson triumphantly.†   (source)
  • Which is one reason I have an aversion to nuns.†   (source)
  • Your well-documented "aversion to violence."†   (source)
  • Despite his aversion to what Justin had said, he wanted no part in a fight.†   (source)
  • Seth seemed to feel no aversion to having me sit beside him on the sofa as Carlisle treated him.†   (source)
  • I don't mean that I have any aversion to you as a sister.†   (source)
  • They would not touch Renesmee, but they showed no aversion to her.†   (source)
  • I can't afford pride or aversion, there are all kinds of things that have to be discarded, under the circumstances.†   (source)
  • Despite the natural aversion most humans felt toward the Cullens, Angela sat dutifully beside Alice every day at lunch.†   (source)
  • A childhood accident had left him stranded at the bottom of a deep well overnight, and Langdon now lived with an almost crippling aversion to enclosed spaces.†   (source)
  • I said, Oh no, I could not do that, I've never done it before and don't know how; as I had an aversion to shedding the blood of any living thing, although I could pluck a bird well enough once killed; and she said not to be a silly goose, it was easy enough, just take the axe and knock it on the head, and then give it a strong whack right through the neck.†   (source)
  • He thinks about adding a toothbrush, but he has an aversion to sticking a dead person's toothbrush into his mouth, so he takes only the toothpaste.†   (source)
  • In acquiring the desired behavior through the "Ludovico Technique," as the aversion therapy is called in the novel, society has not only failed to correct Alex but has committed a far worse crime against him by taking away his free will, which for Burgess is the hallmark of the human being.†   (source)
  • The Elder Race's aversion to iron meant that certain modern conveniences like cars and planes were off limits to them.†   (source)
  • I had then, over those days of struggling with the staff plan, expended a significant amount of thought to ensuring that Mrs Clements and the girls, once they had got over their aversion to adopting these more 'eclectic' roles, would find the division of duties stimulating and unburdensome.†   (source)
  • He shared a dorm suite — one cramped room either side, silverfish-ridden bathroom in the middle — with a fundamentalist vegan called Bernice, who had stringy hair held back with a wooden clip in the shape of a toucan and wore a succession of God's Gardeners T-shirts, which due to her aversion to chemical compounds such as underarm deodorants — stank even when freshly laundered.†   (source)
  • "You'll be my sister officially in ten short hours… it's about time to get over this aversion to new clothes."†   (source)
  • During the days we'd had to spend cooped up together in Phoenix, I'd thought he'd gotten over his aversion to me.†   (source)
  • Eragon stared with aversion at Zar'roc.†   (source)
  • Speaking and thinking in alanguage that prevented one from lying—and every word of which contained the potential to unlock a spell—discouraged carelessness in thought or speech and fostered an aversion to allowing one's emotions to sweep one away.†   (source)
  • "It is an undoubted fact that there is a very general and strong aversion to war in the minds of the people of the country," he wrote to McHenry.†   (source)
  • He understood her aversion.†   (source)
  • I asked, my voice frigid with aversion.†   (source)
  • Seeing the best of the Horde in such close proximity, Thomas was reminded why his people had such an aversion to Scabs.†   (source)
  • Lane, who knew Sorenson only slightly but had a vague, categorical aversion to his face and manner, put away his letter and said that he didn't know but that he thought he'd understood most of it.†   (source)
  • He scooted away, but I didn't look to see what emotion was on his face, whether it was aversion or guilt.†   (source)
  • His blunt face was full, his grayish hair cut close to his skull, and a missing tooth surrounded by discolored companions bespoke an aversion to dentistry.†   (source)
  • Though he knew the butcher hated the Spine more than most-because his wife had plummeted to her death from the cliffs beside Igualda Falls-he had hoped that Sloan's rabid desire to protect Katrina would be strong enough to overcome his aversion.†   (source)
  • They humped and scuttled through the shadows, hump-lurched with hands dragging, and you can always convince yourself it's okay to laugh at cripples and mutants if everybody else is laughing, it's a way to play off your aversion, and it wasn't just the twisted features and elaborate gestures and the curious sort of lip-gloss effect you've noticed on the faces of male actors in silent movies but the music as well, this was pretty broad too—string sections of soaring melodrama.†   (source)
  • And I quote: 'Your sense of smell may become stronger during your pregnancy, causing an aversion to some foods.†   (source)
  • You have a morbid aversion to dying.†   (source)
  • Food aversions.†   (source)
  • But what his readers didn't know, and what I learned only many years later, was that he had an aversion to anything gynecological (not to mention anything obstetrical).†   (source)
  • And whatever prior aversion to politics he had had, or that his parents may have expressed, he was verysoon involved.†   (source)
  • The thought that it might have been Jefferson, with his aversion to controversy, Jefferson who idolized Franklin, serving on the commission instead of Arthur Lee, was never lost on Franklin or Adams.†   (source)
  • Just why do you think,' he asked knowingly, 'that you have such a strong aversion to accepting a cigarette from me?†   (source)
  • The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.†   (source)
  • But his want of candor, his obstinate prejudices of both aversion and attachment, his real partiality in spite of all his pretensions, his low notions about many things, have so utterly reconciled me to [his departure] …. that I will not weep.†   (source)
  • "Yours truly," said Sir Palomides feebly, finally and with aversion, "can neither twine nor lick.†   (source)
  • Keating's eyes were bright with disgust; aversion goaded him on; he had to make it worse because he couldn't stand it.†   (source)
  • Conway's aversion was less definite--a mere anticipation that to tell his story in the past tense would bore him a great deal as well as sadden him a little.†   (source)
  • Tolstoy's final verdict on LEAR is that no unhypnotized observer, if such an observer existed, could read it to the end with any feeling except "aversion and weariness".†   (source)
  • When I think of it with a collected mind, Einhorn, asking who would entertain me, might well have been voicing anticipation of the aversion of the girl he chose.†   (source)
  • According to him, he felt a particular aversion from talking about his "rights"-the word was one that gave him pause-and likewise from mentioning a "promise"-which would have implied that he was claiming his due and thus bespoken an audacity incompatible with the humble post he filled.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his own feeling for order was so great that he had a passionate aversion for what was slovenly, disorderly, diffuse.†   (source)
  • I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly all the same, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust.†   (source)
  • When she had finished, Oliver said with the emphasis of strong aversion, thinking of Sydney: "I hope I never own another piece of property as long as I live— save a house to live in.†   (source)
  • And Eliza, now that he could deny her no longer, now that his fierce bright eyes could no longer turn from her in pain and aversion, sat near his head beside him, clutching his cold hand between her rough worn palms.†   (source)
  • He had grown old in minor iniquities, and could no longer inspire aversion or pity.†   (source)
  • I've always been rather serious by nature, with a certain aversion to anything loud or robust.†   (source)
  • There dawned in Milly's mind an aversion for this hide-hunting.†   (source)
  • He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy.†   (source)
  • "What must a woman's aversion be when it is stronger than her fear of spiders!" he said bitterly.†   (source)
  • A quick look of aversion passed over her face, but clenching her teeth she uttered no cry.†   (source)
  • At first they had supposed it must be something of the nature of a serious aversion.†   (source)
  • It had first given rise to his aversion.†   (source)
  • I sometimes wondered why it was that nobody except me fancied that he was looked upon with aversion?†   (source)
  • His presence and that of his friend inspired the little lady with intolerable terror and aversion.†   (source)
  • The medical aversion to Lydgate was hardly disguised now.†   (source)
  • His aversion was all the stronger because he felt himself unable to interfere.†   (source)
  • By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion for his grandfather.†   (source)
  • They repaid me in the same way, and did not conceal their aversion for me.†   (source)
  • Still, he didn't molest her: for which forbearance she might thank his aversion, I suppose.†   (source)
  • But why should such a fair and dutiful girl have such an aversion to her father's sex?"†   (source)
  • She was looking at me then with a look of supreme aversion.†   (source)
  • And by that desire I rouse aversion in him, and he rouses fury in me, and it cannot be different.†   (source)
  • "You are always thinking of something unpleasant," he cried with aversion.†   (source)
  • Dr. Flint always had an aversion to meeting slaves after he had sold them.†   (source)
  • Will you answer for it that Avdotya Romanovna regarded me with aversion?†   (source)
  • "Divorce," Alexey Alexandrovitch interrupted, in a tone of aversion.†   (source)
  • Seeing his hat on the rack, she shuddered with aversion.†   (source)
  • In one way and another he had made all his teachers, men and women alike, conscious of the same feeling of physical aversion.†   (source)
  • Neither the Vicar nor Mrs. Carey went out of the garden much during this period; for they disliked strange faces, and they looked upon the visitors from London with aversion.†   (source)
  • This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.†   (source)
  • It was Dairyman Crick's rule to insist on breaking down these partialities and aversions by constant interchange, since otherwise, in the event of a milkman or maid going away from the dairy, he was placed in a difficulty.†   (source)
  • The particular mood of the passage she had witnessed lay ahead of her; but however far she was from it her stomach told her it was all right—she had none of the aversion she had felt in the playing of certain love scenes in pictures.†   (source)
  • Sid noticed that Tom never was coroner at one of these inquiries, though it had been his habit to take the lead in all new enterprises; he noticed, too, that Tom never acted as a witness—and that was strange; and Sid did not overlook the fact that Tom even showed a marked aversion to these inquests, and always avoided them when he could.†   (source)
  • He had no aversion for her.†   (source)
  • The ship's surgeon took it from the captain with aversion, grumbling, "Now where can I get a barrel to disinfect these darn' letters in?"†   (source)
  • Some among them thought it was on account of her false hair, or the dread of getting the violets wet, while others attributed it to the natural aversion for water sometimes believed to accompany the artistic temperament.†   (source)
  • Alfred, used as he was to wind and speed, remarked that he did not wonder at Nels's aversion to riding a fleeting cannon-ball.†   (source)
  • I confess I thought at first that you were anxious to arouse an aversion for him in my heart by your meddling, in order that I might give him up; and it was only afterwards that I guessed the truth.†   (source)
  • In his puppyhood, under the persecution of Lip-lip and the puppy-pack, and in his fighting days with Beauty Smith, he had acquired a fixed aversion for dogs.†   (source)
  • Unconquerable aversion welled.†   (source)
  • That was partly due to the careful handling of his mother, partly to the fact that the house to which he went at Winchester had a particularly pure tone and partly to Edward's own peculiar aversion from anything like coarse language or gross stories.†   (source)
  • I have observed an aversion on your part to … to the absolute, to the broader application of categories.†   (source)
  • Hence these new capers of their fright, these new antics in which they displayed their extreme aversion to die.†   (source)
  • He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to them.†   (source)
  • Her horror passed with a strong shuddering sensation, leaving in her a sickening aversion to this murderous buffalo hunting.†   (source)
  • Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable, aversion to modern town life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspired to by following a mundane calling in the impracticability of the spiritual one.†   (source)
  • And with her unconquerable aversion to myself as a husband, even though she may like me as a friend, 'tis too much to bear longer.†   (source)
  • A perfect example was this tubercular pack up here, with their frivolity, stupidity, depravity, their aversion to becoming healthy again.†   (source)
  • Fear, conventionality, aversion born of modesty, the quivering longing for purity—all these repressed love, held it chained in darkness, at best giving in only partially to its wild demands, but certainly never permitting them a conscious, active existence in all their variety and vigor.†   (source)
  • His father, too, was shocked to see him, so reduced was that figure from its former contours by worry and the bad season that Clare had experienced, in the climate to which he had so rashly hurried in his first aversion to the mockery of events at home.†   (source)
  • You still have an aversion to me!†   (source)
  • And he found it that much easier to acknowledge and respect Hans Castorp's aversion to any discussion, because he shared it, and indeed considered his own situation even more embarrassing than his cousin's.†   (source)
  • His last half-hour with her would have been a loving one, while if they lived till he awoke, his day-time aversion would return, and this hour would remain to be contemplated only as a transient dream.†   (source)
  • A start of aversion appeared in his fancy to move them at sight of those other sons of the place, the form in the full-bottomed wig, statesman, rake, reasoner, and sceptic; the smoothly shaven historian so ironically civil to Christianity; with others of the same incredulous temper, who knew each quad as well as the faithful, and took equal freedom in haunting its cloisters.†   (source)
  • His influence over her had been so marked that she had caught his manner and habits, his speech and phrases, his likings and his aversions.†   (source)
  • But never had that world, to which he would not have denied theoretical and unbiased recognition, pressed in hard upon him; he had no practical experience of it, and the aversion he felt to such experiences (an aversion based on good taste, an aesthetic aversion, an aversion that came with his pride as a human being—if we can apply such pretentious terms to our thoroughly unpretentious hero) was almost equal to the curiosity they aroused in him.†   (source)
  • In short—at least as he was presented to the cousins in the tales of his grandson—this Giuseppe Settembrini was a shadowy, passionate, and incendiary figure, a ringleader of conspiracy; and despite the polite pains they took to show their respect, they did not quite succeed in banishing from their faces an expression of apprehension and aversion, indeed of outright disgust.†   (source)
  • The topic of conversation continued to be the pieta, for Hans Castorp kept both one eye and his remarks fixed on it as he turned now to Herr Settembrini, trying to bring him into critical contact, as it were, with the work of art, even though the humanist's aversion to this bit of decor could very easily be read from the expression on his face when he twisted around to look at it—he had taken a seat with his back to that particular corner.†   (source)
  • It is time then that all should cease to treat her as alien, and even adverse--cease to denounce and vilify all and everything connected with her accession--cease to thwart and oppose the remaining steps for its consummation; or where such efforts are felt to be unavailing, at least to embitter the hour of reception by all the most ungracious frowns of aversion and words of unwelcome.†   (source)
  • It will be perceived that she partook of this refreshment in spite of her husband's aversion to it, that is partook of it, as she flattered herself, discreetly.†   (source)
  • All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.†   (source)
  • It is certainly not very hospitable; but we must remember his aversion to the customs of civilized life.†   (source)
  • Rostov had been out of humor from the moment he noticed the look of dissatisfaction on Boris' face, and as always happens to those in a bad humor, it seemed to him that everyone regarded him with aversion and that he was in everybody's way.†   (source)
  • He had a great aversion to taking things too hard; he thought that half the discomfort and many of the disappointments of life come from it; and for an instant he asked himself whether, possibly, he did not appear ridiculous to this intelligent young man, whose private perception of incongruities he suspected of being keen.†   (source)
  • She had called him "Stiva," and he glanced at her with gratitude, and moved to take her hand, but she drew back from him with aversion.†   (source)
  • He had no occasion to say after that that he had conceived an aversion for my patron, neither had I occasion to confess my own.†   (source)
  • But here were two acres and a half of furrows, and only a hoe for cart and two hands to draw it—there being an aversion to other carts and horses—and chip dirt far away.†   (source)
  • He stepped into an open cab, made his conductor sit beside him to answer questions, bade the driver go fast (he had a particular aversion to slow driving) and rolled, in all probability through a dusty suburb, to the goal of his pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • "Marry, brother Brian," replied the Prior, "touching the one of them, it were hard for me to render a reason for a fool speaking according to his folly; and the other churl is of that savage, fierce, intractable race, some of whom, as I have often told you, are still to be found among the descendants of the conquered Saxons, and whose supreme pleasure it is to testify, by all means in their power, their aversion to their conquerors."†   (source)
  • He covered with scorn, aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold of evil.†   (source)
  • I was dreadfully weary, but, scarcely understanding what had occasioned the change in my thoughts, I felt no longer any great aversion from the labor imposed.†   (source)
  • Sumach, herself, was generally considered to be as acid as the berry from which she derived her name, and now that her great supporters, her husband and brother, were both gone, few cared about concealing their aversion.†   (source)
  • And what if there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is aversion, contempt, repulsion, what then?†   (source)
  • 'If you find any attraction in looks of disgust and aversion, you—let me rejoin my friends, sir, instantly.†   (source)
  • Those who live in this aristocratic state of society never, therefore, conceive very general ideas respecting themselves, and that is enough to imbue them with an habitual distrust of such ideas, and an instinctive aversion of them.†   (source)
  • That old, double look was on me for a moment; and then his eyes darkened with a frown, as it turned, in its aversion, elsewhere.†   (source)
  • I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen.†   (source)
  • The latter method of obtaining the desired intelligence was dilatory and unsatisfactory; besides, I had an insurmountable aversion to the idea of engaging myself in my loathsome task in my father's house while in habits of familiar intercourse with those I loved.†   (source)
  • Farming details did not arouse any aversion in him; he used even to dream with pleasure of work on the land, but at this time his brain was swarming with other ideas.†   (source)
  • "And it was then," resumes Mr. Guppy, still glancing with remarkable aversion at the coat-sleeve, as they pursue their conversation before the fire, leaning on opposite sides of the table, with their heads very near together, "that he told you of his having taken the bundle of letters from his lodger's portmanteau?"†   (source)
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