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  • Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors.†   (source)
  • He looked more repulsed by the second.†   (source)
  • You repulse me.†   (source)
  • We have repulsed individual Urgals, and that has given the townspeople a confidence far beyond their abilities.†   (source)
  • That doesn't repulse you?†   (source)
  • The city's great buildings and lavish homes awed her, but its smoke and darkness and the ever-present scent of rotting garbage repulsed her.†   (source)
  • Winterbourne, the man whose attention she desires, while both attracted to and repulsed by her, ultimately proves too fearful of the disapproval of his established expatriate American community to pursue her further.†   (source)
  • He'd taken off the wool hat, revealing his grey-white hair, but he was still wearing his hoodie, and the combination of the two men, Ty and Kalden; in one figure, repulsed her, and when he began walking toward her, she yelled "No!"†   (source)
  • "Does it …. does it repulse you?" he asked nervously.†   (source)
  • Soon enough, however, he was looking at the typewriter again with avid repulsed fascination, not even aware of just when his gaze had shifted.†   (source)
  • He turns then, he looks at me, and I feel as though he's read my mind because he's got a strange look on his face contempt, or revulsionand I'm repulsed by him, too.†   (source)
  • And for some reason, the thought of our poem being traded repulses me.†   (source)
  • Not everyone was repulsed by me.†   (source)
  • He remembered how terrified, how repulsed she had looked when he had summoned Gray.†   (source)
  • I keep my hand firmly in his, though his skin feels dry as paper and I am repulsed by him.†   (source)
  • -and not repulsed, but Peter couldn't say he felt with any great conviction that that was something he wanted to try, too.†   (source)
  • Essey and I, dragging Maryam and Mahtob, attempted to elbow our way through the crowd of ecstatic penitents, trying to maneuver close enough to touch the ha ram so that we could ask God to grant our wishes, but we were repulsed several times.†   (source)
  • At the same time, an armed Inkatha group attempted to enter Shell House, the ANC headquarters, but were repulsed by armed guards.†   (source)
  • Like, back in the days when Ellie and I would point out how cute he looked in his Artful Dodger top hat, Maya would stick her fingers in her ears and cross her eyes, as if even the thought of him repulsed her.†   (source)
  • Never at any time was Lou Ann repulsed by the amputation.†   (source)
  • Mark faced front again, repulsed.†   (source)
  • So to prove my sincerity I ate one in front of them, but my teachers and classmates were so repulsed they moved quickly away.†   (source)
  • Thousands of troops spread over hundreds of miles were confident their cement bunkers, ocean defenses, barbed wire, and powerful guns would repulse any invader into the sea.†   (source)
  • I thought myself so repulsed by the passive Oriental and the cruel white man.†   (source)
  • When I walk into the kitchen I brace myself for the repulsed look I know I'll get once Mrs. Leighton sees my clothes, but it never comes.†   (source)
  • Since the accident, I'd lost my appetite; even the idea of eating seemed to repulse me.†   (source)
  • He was both engaged and repulsed.†   (source)
  • He felt repulsed by her.†   (source)
  • In fact, she looked a little repulsed.†   (source)
  • I stood at the mouth of the room and stared at it, fascinated and repulsed.†   (source)
  • I should have been repulsed.†   (source)
  • We dissolved into each other, and we shared a common struggle against the evil within, which fought to repulse Ultima's magic.†   (source)
  • Worse than the odor (since she must have lived with it for more than a few days) was to see in her face the knowledge of how it repulsed and revolted others.†   (source)
  • There was something about it that repulsed her even more than the demons she'd encountered before.†   (source)
  • Lanier knew perfectly well that the jury would be bored if not repulsed by this testimony, so he labored diligently to skip along, hitting the high points and leaving much of the code in the dust.†   (source)
  • How can you love a woman who repulses you?†   (source)
  • Although some people might be repulsed by this notion, these creatures did not represent slimy pests to me.†   (source)
  • Stirling had been ordered by Putnam to "repulse" the enemy, and for lack of orders to the contrary, he and his men had held on for nearly four hours.†   (source)
  • A wild glee simultaneously thrilled and repulsed him.†   (source)
  • When she reached it she had hesitated a little, reluctant to face the possibility of the same sort of screaming repulse that she had suffered the previous day.†   (source)
  • "By throwing whatever we have that might confuse or distract, or maybe even repulse them, if that's even possible.†   (source)
  • After their first few repulses the enemy always set the house on fire.†   (source)
  • They rubbed our noses in it, made us roll in it, soak it into our uniforms, rub it into our hair and faces until they were nauseated and repulsed by the stink of us all.†   (source)
  • I am repulsed, and yet I have to know, so I reach toward the swinging arms of one of the bodies.†   (source)
  • He had to do something; he had to stop the trembling, lessen the noise, repulse the pain.†   (source)
  • Though he had been repulsed he could not cease being proprietary.†   (source)
  • He tried to put his hand over it, but the light wall repulsed him.†   (source)
  • He rode that way, leaping wounded, but it had been repulsed when he got there.†   (source)
  • He insisted that everything be passed forward through the bailiff, as though he was repulsed by the idea of having to deal directly with a lowly lawyer.†   (source)
  • We thought they would be repulsed by the violence of ISIS.†   (source)
  • I'd wanted to hate him, to be repulsed by him.†   (source)
  • American troops entrenched on the new line and repulsed two powerful German counterattacks.†   (source)
  • "Too cold, too mocking," said Rudra, "She repulsed you?"†   (source)
  • The women dropped back, staring at him with horror, as if they were so repulsed by a man who would deny his own image and likeness that they could not bear to lay hands on him, Mr. Head walked on, through a space they silently cleared, and left Nelson behind.†   (source)
  • Though she had bullied and repulsed them earlier, they began to speculate in another kind of allurement: was there danger that Easter, turned in on herself, might call out to them after all, from the other, worse, side of it?†   (source)
  • They are raked with fire, the attack is repulsed.   (source)
    repulsed = driven back
  • The sight of his own twisted form repulsed Kohler.†   (source)
  • At once he was on his feet, cringing away from her, quite obviously repulsed.†   (source)
  • The thought repulsed me at the time, since we consider mice vermin, unless cooked.†   (source)
  • I tried to make myself smile, but it only seemed to repulse her more.†   (source)
  • He ought to comfort it, but it repulsed him.†   (source)
  • But while Thomas's touch now repulses me, I feel no revulsion toward Day.†   (source)
  • And now there was the third name, a third man, in the downpour at Repulse Bay.†   (source)
  • "You read my mind," I said, trying not to appear completely repulsed.†   (source)
  • He thought: if there is a repulse, this will be good country to defend.†   (source)
  • A man fell injured as Doc's platoon was repulsed by Japanese fire.†   (source)
  • Heth's Division had formed on a front about a mile, had obviously been repulsed.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked down at Peter's upstretched finger, again feeling repulsed by his captor's sadistic play on words.†   (source)
  • Repulsed, Katherine looked away.†   (source)
  • Even now, having been tortured and imprisoned by Voldemort, the idea of the Dark Wizard in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall him as much as it repulsed him.†   (source)
  • The mother who had seemed to be disgusted and repulsed by all those around her, the well-meaning but ineffectual father, the schools, the friends, the dates and dances — they were all a dream to her now, as youth must seem to the old.†   (source)
  • I cannot tell you exactly how I discerned this, distracted, even repulsed as I was by the language involved, but the conversation between them went something like this: "This is not what we ordered, Mr. Corbin."†   (source)
  • I was immediately repulsed.†   (source)
  • Not outraged or repulsed.†   (source)
  • She ran her fingers over his skin, distracted by the thought that she wasn't repulsed by the feeling.†   (source)
  • Finally, there was a bonus from the man whose life he had saved in Repulse Bay: the description of the man travelling under a Macao passport across the Lo Wu border.†   (source)
  • The brunette was aroused or repulsed.†   (source)
  • But repulsed?†   (source)
  • I stared down at the still-clenched fist, as repulsed as if I'd found a scorpion growing on the end of my arm.†   (source)
  • Drew looks repulsed.†   (source)
  • Now I knew, his fantasies aside, he had witnessed me-us-there, and that no matter how it may have excited him, it had repulsed him as well, and he had taken action.†   (source)
  • Putnam rushed to Lord Stirling's camp outside the Brooklyn lines to order Stirling to move to meet the enemy and "repulse them," little knowing how many of the enemy there were.†   (source)
  • The rain was torrential, pitting the sand, snapping into the floodlights that lit up the grotesque statuary of Repulse Bay —reproductions of enormous Chinese gods, angry myths of the Orient in furious poses, some rising as high as 30 feet.†   (source)
  • The day after brought a "mighty movement" of transports and more flatboats up the East River, while two more frigates, the Repulse and the Pearl, sailed into the Hudson.†   (source)
  • There have been little white lies, of coursetelling him I don't mind his coming home late; pretending to enjoy a bedroom encounter when in fact it repulsed me; defending some action of his to his face when behind his back I believe he handled it incorrectly-but never a lie of this magnitude!†   (source)
  • I wasn't repulsed, Frank.†   (source)
  • He had met men and women —contacts and conduits, he reflected — on the beaches of Shek O and Big Wave, and he had swum in the crowded waters of Repulse Bay, with its huge ersatz statuary and the decaying elegance of the old colonial hotel.†   (source)
  • Like General Putnam, Washington, too, had been awakened in the middle of the night with word of Grant's early assault, and at daybreak, still apprehensive of a second, larger attack on New York, Washington had watched with increasing anxiety as five enemy warships—Roebuck, Asia, Renown, Preston, and Repulse—started for the East River with a favorable wind and tide.†   (source)
  • From the advantage we now possess, I think General Howe must be repulsed whenever he attacks, but should he be able to carry the island, it must be with so prodigious a loss that victory will be ruin.†   (source)
  • Names came to him, accompanied by images — Causeway Bay, Wanchai, Repulse Bay, Aberdeen, The Mandarin, and finally, so clear in the distance, Victoria Peak with its awesome view of the entire colony.†   (source)
  • Repulse Bay.†   (source)
  • She did repulse you?†   (source)
  • Two or three times Delia had attempted a timid friendliness, but she was repulsed each time.†   (source)
  • The "Chapter of Repulsing Serpents" follows, then the "Chapter of Driving Away Apshait."†   (source)
  • On the other hand I repulse the idea that a new war is inevitable; still more that it is imminent.†   (source)
  • On the other hand I repulse the idea that a new war is inevitable; still more that it is imminent.†   (source)
  • For one thing, the Yankees had been stoutly repulsed in September when they had tried to follow up their victories in Tennessee by an advance into Georgia.†   (source)
  • He wanted to get up, but found it difficult; and he did not repulse me when I offered him a little help.†   (source)
  • There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankee assault bloodily repulsed.†   (source)
  • Johnston fought desperately at Resaca and repulsed the Yankees again, but Sherman, employing the same flanking movement, swung his vast army in another semicircle, crossed the Oostanaula River and again struck at the railroad in the Confederate rear.†   (source)
  • When she coaxed and insisted, I repulsed her quite sternly.†   (source)
  • Good God!" he burst out, "what am I, to be repulsed so by a mere chit like you?†   (source)
  • What we afterwards alluded to as an attack was really an attempt at repulse.†   (source)
  • As the smoke slowly eddied away, the youth saw that the charge had been repulsed.†   (source)
  • Tom tried again, with soothing words in his mouth, and was repulsed again.†   (source)
  • Charlotte had repulsed him with much small talk.†   (source)
  • Shefford was somewhat amazed and discomfited to have his polite and friendly overtures repulsed.†   (source)
  • The Martians had been repulsed; they were not invulnerable.†   (source)
  • Were these preparations for war, or for vengeance, or to repulse a threatened invasion?†   (source)
  • The sore joints of the regiment creaked as it painfully floundered into position to repulse.†   (source)
  • He started to lay hold of Higby's left hand, but as he did so Higby repulsed him.†   (source)
  • She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly.†   (source)
  • I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.†   (source)
  • In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon.†   (source)
  • They are repulsed by no prejudice; they are attracted by their common country.†   (source)
  • When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a brute."†   (source)
  • She thought she had repulsed him too much, that the time was past, that all was lost.†   (source)
  • "I beseech you," he cried, "if you have any heart, do not repulse me!†   (source)
  • Felton gently repulsed Milady, and she sank into a chair.†   (source)
  • All had repulsed her,— the Thenardiers, their children, other children.†   (source)
  • And yet she could not help feeling that the assistance he was rendering forbade a harsh repulse.†   (source)
  • The attack directed by Napoleon against our left flank had been several times repulsed.†   (source)
  • But, when Louisa opened her arms, he repulsed her afresh.†   (source)
  • Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement— "You are all evil!"†   (source)
  • 'Keep your eft's fingers off; and move, or I'll kick you!' cried Heathcliff, brutally repulsing her.†   (source)
  • They are repulsed everywhere, for which I thank God and our brave army!†   (source)
  • It served to receive the innocent whom society repulsed.†   (source)
  • The enemy has been repulsed on the left and defeated on the right flank.†   (source)
  • The French had been repulsed for the last time.†   (source)
  • This morning, when I went to see him after his repulse of Van Helsing, his manner was that of a man commanding destiny.†   (source)
  • A thousand warriors of these tribes had made the memorable siege of a small band of buffalo-hunters and their soldier escort, and after repeated and persistent charges had been repulsed.†   (source)
  • The boat we were pursuing had squared away and was running before the wind to escape us, and, in the course of its flight, to take part in repulsing our general boat attack.†   (source)
  • I had quite made up my mind that the mutineers, after their repulse of the morning, had nothing nearer their hearts than to up anchor and away to sea; this, I thought, it would be a fine thing to prevent, and now that I had seen how they left their watchmen unprovided with a boat, I thought it might be done with little risk.†   (source)
  • Were the gentlemen repulsed by it, too? she asked coquettishly; and her fiery femininity triumphed over the eczema covering half her face.†   (source)
  • After each repulse, when the old wolf sheered abruptly away from the sharp-toothed object of his desire, he shouldered against a young threeyear-old that ran on his blind right side.†   (source)
  • "I didn't see you for a long time," she said, coquettishly, repulsing one of his exuberant approaches.†   (source)
  • And now Clyde, repulsed and somewhat shaken by this sudden counter on her part, decided on the instant that perhaps it might be best for him to modify his tone.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER VII THE UNVEILING OF THE STRANGER The stranger went into the little parlour of the "Coach and Horses" about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near midday, the blinds down, the door shut, and none, after Hall's repulse, venturing near him.†   (source)
  • As gently she repulsed him.†   (source)
  • Again his arm repulsed a shadow….†   (source)
  • Repulse of the Martians!†   (source)
  • I would have taken him with me to see the patient, only I thought that after his last repulse he might not care to go again.†   (source)
  • But then, why do you repulse me?†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp felt only disdain for the lad's allowing himself to be repulsed, and he let his disdain be known with a shrug.†   (source)
  • Yet she also felt that he was too uncertain as to what she would think of any overture that he might make in her direction to risk a repulse or any offensive interpretation on her part.†   (source)
  • Jim had been away in the interior for more than a week, and it was Dain Waris who had directed the first repulse.†   (source)
  • "I don't repulse you.†   (source)
  • But by ruses and coercion, his family had taken him away from her—and the lad had probably been repulsed by her illness, too, which by then had begun to evidence itself in various violent eruptions.†   (source)
  • He was experiencing a sensation not unrelated to his mood in connection with the lupanar in Kansas City—attracted and yet repulsed.†   (source)
  • An Attack Repulsed.†   (source)
  • And these in turn, repulsed by her shyness and refinement, tended to recede from her, for all of her physical charm, which was too delicate for this region.†   (source)
  • 'tis I. Look at me; 'tis the little one whom thou wilt surely not repulse, who comes, who comes herself to seek thee.†   (source)
  • … But here is a good creature, who does not repulse me,' he thought, and his heart again knew the sweetness of magnanimous emotions.†   (source)
  • I am repulsed on all sides.†   (source)
  • Pale and trembling, Milady repulsed d'Artagnan's attempted embrace by a violent blow on the chest, as she sprang out of bed.†   (source)
  • If he were disappointed in this expectation, then the money was to come to you: for then, and not till then, when both children were equal, would he recognise your prior claim upon his purse, who had none upon his heart, but had, from an infant, repulsed him with coldness and aversion.'†   (source)
  • Still, however you have found me out, there must be something good in the feeling that has brought you here, and I will not repulse you; but surely you must understand that—I—†   (source)
  • At this slight repulse the assailants instantly withdrew, and gradually the place became as still as before the sudden tumult.†   (source)
  • But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.†   (source)
  • —In Jane's eyes she had been a rival; and well might any thing she could offer of assistance or regard be repulsed.†   (source)
  • For the first time, after a fortnight's retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight had not only held the field but had repulsed the French.†   (source)
  • I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me.†   (source)
  • —One effort will I make to save thee—but beware of ingratitude! for if I am again repulsed, my vengeance shall equal my love.†   (source)
  • Willingly would I now have gone and asked Mrs. Reed's pardon; but I knew, partly from experience and partly from instinct, that was the way to make her repulse me with double scorn, thereby re-exciting every turbulent impulse of my nature.†   (source)
  • He put his hand into several holes, which were empty; but at last his intended theft and robbery met with repulse and chastisement he little expected; for, reaching far back into a nest, his finger was seized and sharply bitten by a very strong beak, so that with a cry he withdrew his hand, and shook it vigorously to lessen the pain.†   (source)
  • Then all of a sudden she would be disillusioned and would rudely and contemptuously repulse the person she had only a few hours before been literally adoring.†   (source)
  • No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words.†   (source)
  • That made her cry, at first; and then being repulsed continually hardened her, and she laughed if I told her to say she was sorry for her faults, and beg to be forgiven.†   (source)
  • The French had been repulsed certainly, but it was after a severe and doubtful struggle, and with only a division of the French army.†   (source)
  • He was a simple and devoted soul; but when he devoted himself to me entirely I began to hate him immediately and repulsed him--as though all I needed him for was to win a victory over him, to subjugate him and nothing else.†   (source)
  • When the physician attempted to introduce the instrument described by Remarkable, he was repulsed by the stranger, with a good deal of decision, and some little contempt, in his manner.†   (source)
  • The Spirit, stronger yet, repulsed him.†   (source)
  • We left this old friend by the time appointed, and I made some feeble show of taking the sculls; but Dick repulsed me, not much to my grief, I must say, as I found I had quite enough to do between the enjoyment of the beautiful time and my own lazily blended thoughts.†   (source)
  • 'The holy man, who had often urged the same point before, but had never met with so direct a repulse, walked some little distance behind, with his eyes bent upon the earth, and his lips moving AS IF in prayer.†   (source)
  • In her poverty she had met with repulse from the society to which she had belonged, and she had no great zest for renewing an attempt upon it now.†   (source)
  • It was the end of May when the farmer determined to be no longer repulsed by trivialities or distracted by suspense.†   (source)
  • If oppressed, they may bring an action at law, but they will find none but whites amongst their judges; and although they may legally serve as jurors, prejudice repulses them from that office.†   (source)
  • One of the parties had evidently been repulsed; but the mere lookers-on could not tell whether Mandiboy or Camerfield had gained the upper hand.†   (source)
  • The woman crept near and looked on, eagerly, lovingly, but timorously,—like one who fears a repulse; indeed, she tried furtively to touch the man's forehead, and jumped back, the picture of fright, when I turned unconsciously toward her.†   (source)
  • He hastened down to raise her, but she repulsed him as he bent over her, and looking at him fixedly and coldly, said, 'I will die here where I have walked.†   (source)
  • However, every added repulse of this sort which I received only tended to lessen the probability of my repeating the inadvertence.†   (source)
  • For a day or two after the affront was given, Henry Crawford had endeavoured to do it away by the usual attack of gallantry and compliment, but he had not cared enough about it to persevere against a few repulses; and becoming soon too busy with his play to have time for more than one flirtation, he grew indifferent to the quarrel, or rather thought it a lucky occurrence, as quietly putting an end to what might ere long have raised expectations in more than Mrs. Grant.†   (source)
  • Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.†   (source)
  • The heart of Le Balafre, however, was yearning towards the youth, and the fondness of age was not so readily repulsed.†   (source)
  • Finally, in a much–feared satirical journal, an article by its most popular columnist finished off the monster for good, spurning it in the style of Hippolytus repulsing the amorous advances of his stepmother Phaedra, and giving the creature its quietus amid a universal burst of laughter.†   (source)
  • They repulsed every attempt of Mrs. Bennet at conversation, and by so doing threw a languor over the whole party, which was very little relieved by the long speeches of Mr. Collins, who was complimenting Mr. Bingley and his sisters on the elegance of their entertainment, and the hospitality and politeness which had marked their behaviour to their guests.†   (source)
  • Mabel had been induced to use her female means of defence thus freely, partly because her suitor had of late been so pointed as to stand in need of a pretty strong repulse, and partly on account of his innuendoes against Jasper and the Pathfinder.†   (source)
  • Every time Levin tried to penetrate beyond the outer chambers of Sviazhsky's mind, which were hospitably open to all, he noticed that Sviazhsky was slightly disconcerted; faint signs of alarm were visible in his eyes, as though he were afraid Levin would understand him, and he would give him a kindly, good-humored repulse.†   (source)
  • The news that "Bony" was come back from Egypt was comparatively insipid, and the repulse of the French in Italy was nothing to Mrs. Poyser's repulse of the old squire.†   (source)
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