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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)
  • Even at that time, I had not yet conquered my aversion to the dryness of a life of study.   (source)
  • she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother.   (source)
  • Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.   (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)
  • Lies and aversions.†   (source)
  • He felt inside not only an aversion to it but an attraction to it as well.†   (source)
  • Langdon's aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.†   (source)
  • She remembered how, when Peter was around eleven, he'd developed an aversion to buttons.†   (source)
  • Despite my aversion to school and books of any kind, I feel a pull to them.†   (source)
  • I can't afford pride or aversion, there are all kinds of things that have to be discarded, under the circumstances.†   (source)
  • what if the fire had started in my room?) 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 old aversion to lawsuits fell by the wayside.†   (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)
  • Within Islam there is moreover a general aversion to both photography and art, because people should not compete with God in "creating" anything.†   (source)
  • We have an aversion to it, she said, choosing the word carefully.†   (source)
  • They say around here that bellies stir up certain cravings or aversions.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Mom's family did not share her aversion to coal mining.†   (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)
  • And I've noticed you have a curious aversion to pretty girls being on the staff.†   (source)
  • As little as I knew about him, I sensed his aversion to Vee as if it were concrete enough to touch.†   (source)
  • If the job is boring, overly regimented, or meaningless, it can create a lifelong aversion to work.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Berman, an awkward, high-strung guy with gaze aversion, comes out from behind the table.†   (source)
  • Thinking in Zurich of those days, she no longer felt any aversion to the man.†   (source)
  • That this should happen here, in public, in the high revel of event—he feels a puzzled wonder that exceeds his aversion.†   (source)
  • I might be a convicted felon, but as the daughter of teachers, I had a strong aversion to cheating on tests.†   (source)
  • So my interest in the service's potential and my aversion to Reverend Thomas caused me to turn him off.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As with wooden stakes, sunlight, and Italian food, vampires have a natural aversion to both punctuation and capitalization.†   (source)
  • Despite my years of aversion for her, and hers of contempt for me, she folded up into my arms like a child.†   (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)
  • Isn't that a natural aversion, a conventional hostility?†   (source)
  • He understood her aversion.†   (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)
  • My aversion to violence is well documented.†   (source)
  • It seemed that Gabriel's aversion to tobacco was well known to the GID.†   (source)
  • It's not unnatural, most of us take some aversion to our teachers, and occasionally another hand can smooth things out.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    aversion = dislike that leads to avoidance
  • In short, she was at no pains to conceal her aversion to me.   (source)
  • It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.   (source)
    aversion = dislike
  • Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself.   (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)
  • I felt, though I could not have expressed the feeling, that she was sowing aversion and unkindness along my future path; I saw myself transformed under Mr. Brocklehurst's eye into an artful, noxious child, and what could I do to remedy the injury?   (source)
  • They said that if it caught a trespasser, the div was known to overcome its aversion to adult meat.†   (source)
  • Her pretence is a pretence of aversion — it's her part to display resistance, his to overcome it.†   (source)
  • Masquerade as a human dwarf, with an aversion to light.†   (source)
  • Seth seemed to feel no aversion to having me sit beside him on the sofa as Carlisle treated him.†   (source)
  • Civilized as they were, they didn't feel the same aversion I was beginning to feel.†   (source)
  • They would not touch Renesmee, but they showed no aversion to her.†   (source)
  • I know their aversions and their passions.†   (source)
  • I don't mean that I have any aversion to you as a sister.†   (source)
  • Despite his aversion to what Justin had said, he wanted no part in a fight.†   (source)
  • 'Just why do you think you have such a morbid aversion to fish?' asked Major Sanderson triumphantly.†   (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)
  • Your well-documented "aversion to violence."†   (source)
  • Which is one reason I have an aversion to nuns.†   (source)
  • He could have put a bug in their room, taken in the whole show, but he had a strong aversion to that.†   (source)
  • You'll be my sister officially in ten short hours...it's about time to get over this aversion to new clothes.†   (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)
  • Despite the natural aversion most humans felt toward the Cullens, Angela sat dutifully beside Alice every day at lunch.†   (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)
  • The Elder Race's aversion to iron meant that certain modern conveniences like cars and planes were off limits to them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Eragon stared with aversion at Zar'roc.†   (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)
  • I asked, my voice frigid with aversion.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Seeing the best of the Horde in such close proximity, Thomas was reminded why his people had such an aversion to Scabs.†   (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)
  • 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 scooted away, but I didn't look to see what emotion was on his face, whether it was aversion or guilt.†   (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)
  • You have a morbid aversion to dying.†   (source)
  • Food aversions.†   (source)
  • Just why do you think,' he asked knowingly, 'that you have such a strong aversion to accepting a cigarette from me?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 he had hoped that it might be shyness, her retiring character, her foreknowledge of the state of his heart, anything short of aversion.†   (source)
    aversion = dislike that leads to avoidance
  • She had sat in her quiet corner before supper imagining what he would have been in the scenes and places within her experience, until he inspired her with an aversion that made him little less than terrific.†   (source)
  • As though accidents were determined to be favourable to it, they had a new assurance of congeniality in the aversion which each perceived that the other felt towards Blandois of Paris; an aversion amounting to the repugnance and horror of a natural antipathy towards an odious creature of the reptile kind.†   (source)
  • This, though he supposed him to live by his wits at play-tables and the like; though he suspected him to be a coward, while he himself was daring and courageous; though he thoroughly knew him to be disliked by Minnie; and though he cared so little for him, after all, that if he had given her any tangible personal cause to regard him with aversion, he would have had no compunction whatever in flinging him out of the highest window in Venice into the deepest water of the city.†   (source)
  • How, at the house of entertainment called the Break of Day at Chalons on the Saone, he had been awakened in his bed at night by the same assassin, then assuming the name of Lagnier, though his name had formerly been Rigaud; how the assassin had proposed that they should join their fortunes together; how he held the assassin in such dread and aversion that he had fled from him at daylight, and how he had ever since been haunted by the fear of seeing the assassin again and being claimed by him as an acquaintance.†   (source)
  • A generous nature is not prone to strong aversions, and is slow to admit them even dispassionately; but when it finds ill-will gaining upon it, and can discern between-whiles that its origin is not dispassionate, such a nature becomes distressed.†   (source)
    aversions = dislikes that leads to avoidance
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Moreover, his own feeling for order was so great that he had a passionate aversion for what was slovenly, disorderly, diffuse.†   (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)
  • "What must a woman's aversion be when it is stronger than her fear of spiders!" he said bitterly.†   (source)
  • He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy.†   (source)
  • At first they had supposed it must be something of the nature of a serious aversion.†   (source)
  • A quick look of aversion passed over her face, but clenching her teeth she uttered no cry.†   (source)
  • I sometimes wondered why it was that nobody except me fancied that he was looked upon with aversion?†   (source)
  • It had first given rise to his aversion.†   (source)
  • The medical aversion to Lydgate was hardly disguised now.†   (source)
  • His presence and that of his friend inspired the little lady with intolerable terror and aversion.†   (source)
  • And by that desire I rouse aversion in him, and he rouses fury in me, and it cannot be different.†   (source)
  • By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion for his grandfather.†   (source)
  • Still, he didn't molest her: for which forbearance she might thank his aversion, I suppose.†   (source)
  • She was looking at me then with a look of supreme aversion.†   (source)
  • "You are always thinking of something unpleasant," he cried with aversion.†   (source)
  • They repaid me in the same way, and did not conceal their aversion for me.†   (source)
  • Dr. Flint always had an aversion to meeting slaves after he had sold them.†   (source)
  • But why should such a fair and dutiful girl have such an aversion to her father's sex?†   (source)
  • His aversion was all the stronger because he felt himself unable to interfere.†   (source)
  • "Divorce," Alexey Alexandrovitch interrupted, in a tone of aversion.†   (source)
  • Will you answer for it that Avdotya Romanovna regarded me with 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)
  • Unconquerable aversion welled.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He had no aversion for her.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hence these new capers of their fright, these new antics in which they displayed their extreme aversion to die.†   (source)
  • I have observed an aversion on your part to ...to the absolute, to the broader application of categories.†   (source)
  • Her horror passed with a strong shuddering sensation, leaving in her a sickening aversion to this murderous buffalo hunting.†   (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)
  • A perfect example was this tubercular pack up here, with their frivolity, stupidity, depravity, their aversion to becoming healthy again.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen.†   (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)
  • 'If you find any attraction in looks of disgust and aversion, you—let me rejoin my friends, sir, instantly.†   (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)
  • 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 covered with scorn, aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold of evil.†   (source)
  • In that case your mother would hold me in aversion, and I do not at all wish that; on the contrary, I desire to stand high in her esteem.†   (source)
  • And what if there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is aversion, contempt, repulsion, what then?†   (source)
  • He never talked to her much, but he looked at her a good deal, and she felt sure that he did not regard her 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)
  • He thought, or rather felt, that Tom had an aversion to looking at him; every one, almost, disliked looking at him; and his deformity was more conspicuous when he walked.†   (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)
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