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  • As we might expect, Henry IL; Part II provides a means of measuring Harold's growth, which is actually a sort of regression into the most repugnant of human impulses.†   (source)
  • Such persons are not only socially repugnant, in the climate of our present day they are extremely dangerous.†   (source)
  • The only halfway decent outfit she owned, the only one that Susan might not find repugnant if she'd simply stopped by on her way to a movie, was the outfit she wore to the aquarium, the one that made her look like an Raster egg.†   (source)
  • Amaranta could not conceal the repugnance that she felt at the table because of his bestial belching.†   (source)
  • Her expression soured, as if she found them even more repugnant than she found me.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka yelped and ran out of the medical tent to remonstrate with Sergeant Towser, who edged away from him with repugnance and advised Doc Daneeka to remain out of sight as much as possible until some decision could be reached relating to the disposition of his remains.†   (source)
  • It was children, she said, and her words did more than state a fact; they revealed an unexpected repugnance for people in general.†   (source)
  • And yet the thought of joining him physically I find so repugnant as to literally make me sick to my stomach.†   (source)
  • The thought of her daughter in bed with these men drives Lourdes to despair, to utter repugnance.†   (source)
  • The idea of having the Seeker inside me, even though I knew that I would not be here, was so repugnant that I felt a return of last week's nausea.†   (source)
  • All their repugnance was contained in the neat balance of the triangles—a balance that soothed him, transferred some of its equilibrium to him.†   (source)
  • Deo had a lot of experience with bargaining, but the whole idea of soliciting tips was new, and, once he understood it, repugnant.†   (source)
  • As I waited in the marsh grass, the other plebes seemed repugnant to me, odious and contemptible.†   (source)
  • Max was angry—he found the idea of hosting demons insufferably repugnant—but he was curious, too.†   (source)
  • How we giggled, with repugnance and delight, when we found the wax her older sisters used on their legs, congealed in a little pot, stuck full of bristles.†   (source)
  • Your feet are repugnant, objectionable, and invincible.†   (source)
  • They are repugnant to the American spirit.†   (source)
  • They came out upon dry land, many of them without a rag of garment, scratched and gnashed, and spent, repugnant to themselves, and disgusting to those who saw them.†   (source)
  • It wrinkled, as though he found the scent repugnant.†   (source)
  • I found her very presence, beautiful as she was, repugnant.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they are ugly realizations, repugnant actually, but one must weigh the greater good, the greater benefits.†   (source)
  • But also--beyond question--I have cut from them parts of individuality repugnant to this God, in both his aspects.†   (source)
  • Jerry laughed and raised his hands in a gesture of repugnance.†   (source)
  • I could see her hesitate, her caution and repugnance struggling against instincts of common decency.†   (source)
  • It was a feeling deeply involved in a bad conscience, and although a logical part of my mind reasoned that I must not blame myself for cosmic events which had dealt with —me in one way and with Jozef in another, I could not help but view my own recent career with repugnance.†   (source)
  • But all that absorbed me, though it started as outrage, was the necessity I felt for entering into the mind and inside the skin of a character who could hardly have been more alien or repugnant to me.†   (source)
  • Then I would not be a refugee from a form of existence I find repugnant, and I would not be concerned whether or not a former associate had discovered my identity.†   (source)
  • She drank it down, without pleasure; all its whiteness, draining from the stringing wet whiteness of the empty cup, was singularly repugnant.†   (source)
  • George Norris, an advocate of a change in the Senate rules to correct the abuses of filibustering, but feeling strongly that the issue of war itself was at stake, adopted this very tactic "in spite of my repugnance to the method."†   (source)
  • The indictment is grounded in an Act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the Law of God.†   (source)
  • But this time, after Feld had plodded through the snow to Sobel's house – he had thought of sending Miriam but the idea became repugnant to him – the burly landlady at the door informed him in a nasal voice that Sobel was not at home, and though Feld knew this was a nasty lie, for where had the refugee to go?†   (source)
  • He was weak, too, with repugnance against this ugly little house which seemed to hold within its walls, even in its very brick and cement, the fears and horror of the murder.†   (source)
  • She thought of many of their customs as morally repugnant.
  • Sexual relations between whites and blacks were considered morally repugnant.†   (source)
  • It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind.†   (source)
  • Suicide was a repugnant option–worse because it would be murder, too.†   (source)
  • He found her deed repugnant but did not pretend to know whether it was good or evil.†   (source)
  • Would the face be less repugnant to me when another awareness looked out of those eyes?†   (source)
  • Might as well save the repugnant Seeker while I was at it.†   (source)
  • She had to crush down violent repugnance to the idea of facing the farm natives herself.†   (source)
  • Richard, as morally and spiritually twisted as his back, is one of the most completely repugnant figures in all of literature.†   (source)
  • If we only understand Beloved on the surface level, Sethe's act of killing her daughter becomes so repugnant that sympathy for her is nearly impossible.†   (source)
  • Ezra Pound's politics, for instance, a mixture of anti-Semitism and authoritarianism that made Italian fascism congenial to him, are repugnant to any thinking person, and to the extent that they find expression in his poetry, they destroy everything they touch.†   (source)
  • Morzan only used her for missions that were so repugnant, difficult, or secretive that no one else would agree to undertake them.†   (source)
  • Some people argue that if the courts find a law repugnant, they may substitute their own will for the constitutional intentions of the legislature.†   (source)
  • Twice a day Fernanda left a plate of food by her bed and twice a day she took it away intact, not because Meme had resolved to die of hunger, but because even the smell of food was repugnant to her and her stomach rejected even water.†   (source)
  • …months, writing almost exclusively about her husband's increased addiction to these events and the elaborate acts he conceived for both his wife and his wife's best friend and servant. there are virtually no entries other than these (often repugnant and degrading) until early in 1918, an editorial time jump i readily make in order to spare you, the reader, the sordid descriptions of the debauchery to which john rimbauer stooped. the only element you lose because of my red pencil is the…†   (source)
  • He had to get inside Mao Zedong's monument and watch, wait for the meeting to conclude one way or another — and the repugnant possibility that he might have to protect the assassin crossed his mind.†   (source)
  • Repugnance for what he was about to do filled Eragon, but he ignored it and, placing a hand over the belt of Beloth the Wise, transferred what energy he could from the body of the cow into the twelve diamonds hidden around his waist.†   (source)
  • State sovereignty is transferred to the Union in three cases: where the Constitution expressly grants exclusive authority to the Union; where it grants a specific authority to the Union and prohibits the States from exercising the same authority; and where it grants an authority to the Union, to which similar authority in the States would be absolutely and totally contradictory and repugnant.†   (source)
  • She prepared a repugnant potion for them made out of mashed wormseed, which they both drank with unforeseen stoicism, and they sat down at the same time on their pots eleven times in a single day, expelling some rose-colored parasites that they showed to everybody with great jubilation, for it allowed them to deceive Ursula as to the origin of their distractions and drowsiness.†   (source)
  • In answer to my earlier question to myself, no, the face was not less repugnant with a different awareness behind it.†   (source)
  • A highly developed species, and certainly mobile, but after my long stay with the See Weeds, the thought of another water planet was repugnant to me.†   (source)
  • Kyle roamed the caves now, and though he was obviously under orders to leave me in peace, his expression made it clear that this restriction was repugnant to him.†   (source)
  • His small blue eyes shone with repugnance, a look of such unreasoning contempt for my skin that it filled me with despair.†   (source)
  • After lunch she drove down again, and curiously enough without repugnance for this work from which she had shrunk so long.†   (source)
  • It was a victory over these natives, over herself and her repugnance of them, over Dick and his slow, foolish shiftlessness.†   (source)
  • And yet, if one comes to consider it, where could I have met her without repugnance?†   (source)
  • It was repugnant to me, and yet ten times preferable to all the academic music of the day.†   (source)
  • The mere idea of stealing had been repugnant.†   (source)
  • She got this across, in her granny grimace of repugnance, and left us with her horror.†   (source)
  • It was not, however, that he was an object of hatred and repugnance.†   (source)
  • One dying in such a place can be very ugly, dirty and repugnant.†   (source)
  • But the memory of how my father had conducted himself made that course repugnant.†   (source)
  • I felt with repugnance how moist and limp my clothing hung around me.†   (source)
  • It is repugnant to me and it is not how one should act for the cause.†   (source)
  • All of that is of the utmost repugnance.†   (source)
  • Satisfied that nothing would happen he went in and breakfasted with the other Fathers on substitute coffee and ration bread, which, under the circumstances, was especially repugnant to him.†   (source)
  • It flashed into his mind from time to time, and always with a shudder of repugnance quite unjustified by anything he had experienced there.†   (source)
  • He was then told that it did affect the position, already difficult, of the authorities, who were against showing any favoritism and thus running the risk of creating what, with obvious repugnance, they called "a precedent."†   (source)
  • She came at once, without repugnance, and they kneeled together beside the body, stripping it of the vital pieces.†   (source)
  • Did you have no womanly repugnance, no delicate shrinking from marrying not just one man but two for whom you had no love or even affection?†   (source)
  • Here is a stagnation that is repugnant.†   (source)
  • They thirsted in its deserts, starved among its rocks, climbed up and down its terrible canyons on stone-bruised feet, broke long fasts by unclean and repugnant food.†   (source)
  • It was repugnant to me to talk about Sebastian to Mr. Samgrass, but I was compelled to say: "I'm not sure that tonight would be the best time to start the relaxation."†   (source)
  • Good God, I thought, so now I am to be initiated, and made to feel at home in this world of idlers and pleasure seekers, a world that is utterly strange and repugnant to me and that to this day I have always carefully avoided and utterly despised, a smooth and stereotyped world of marble-topped tables, jazz music, cocottes and commercial travelers!†   (source)
  • "Since it is impractical to hold Pablo as a prisoner," Fernando commenced, "and since it is repugnant to offer him—"†   (source)
  • And this time I have no repugnance.†   (source)
  • At the very first sight of him, when he came into my aunt's home, craning his head like a bird and praising the smell of the house, I was at once astonished by something curious about him; and my first natural reaction was repugnance.†   (source)
  • When the square had been closed off and the lines formed, I had admired and understood it as a conception of Pablo, although it seemed to me to be somewhat fantastic and that it would be necessary for all that was to be done to be done in good taste if it were not to be repugnant.†   (source)
  • Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty face.†   (source)
  • Then I saw the horror and repugnance of his face, and all of a sudden I let him go.†   (source)
  • The old lady's face creased into furrows of repugnance, and she made no further reply.†   (source)
  • [with strong symptoms of moral repugnance] I hope so.†   (source)
  • The idea of stealing was repugnant to him.†   (source)
  • But the man behind them grew increasingly repugnant in the light of Selden's expected coming.†   (source)
  • Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no ill-will.†   (source)
  • She seemed like an animal of another species, and there was instinctive repugnance on both sides.†   (source)
  • Yet he could not overcome his sense of repugnance.†   (source)
  • They all pronounced with lofty repugnance that it was impossible.†   (source)
  • I received it with a repugnance which gained strength as I grew in years.†   (source)
  • The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with repugnance.†   (source)
  • The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.†   (source)
  • "It was apparently repugnant to you even to write to me," her visitor went on.†   (source)
  • Poverty was repugnant to her; degradation took away two-thirds of her greatness.†   (source)
  • Tom's was a nature which had a sort of superstitious repugnance to everything exceptional.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said Morcerf, "this repugnance, if repugnance it may be called, is not all on my side."†   (source)
  • The musical notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.†   (source)
  • Pierre turned away with repugnance, and closing his eyes quickly fell back on the carriage seat.†   (source)
  • It is impossible that any vessel constructed on principles so repugnant to science can be safe.†   (source)
  • She made an effort to surmount the repugnance with which he inspired her.†   (source)
  • But Rosamond went home with a sense of justified repugnance towards her husband.†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant to him.†   (source)
  • The Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend.†   (source)
  • He saw that which it was repugnant to him to behold.†   (source)
  • In short, he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him.†   (source)
  • And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.†   (source)
  • The force of August Naab's argument for peace, entirely aside from his Christian repugnance to the shedding of blood, was plainly unassailable.†   (source)
  • I did not feel the same repugnance towards this creature which I had experienced in my encounters with the other Beast Men.†   (source)
  • You must find that all very repugnant.†   (source)
  • Stephen sometimes went round with the car which delivered the evening milk and these chilly drives blew away his memory of the filth of the cowyard and he felt no repugnance at seeing the cow hairs and hayseeds on the milkman's coat.†   (source)
  • But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial.†   (source)
  • Not that he doubted the war—Germany stood for everything repugnant to him; for materialism and the direction of tremendous licentious force; it was just that Burne's face stayed in his memory and he was sick of the hysteria he was beginning to hear.†   (source)
  • Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.†   (source)
  • Overcoming a strong repugnance, I tore open his shirt at the neck, and there, sure enough, hanging to a bit of tarry string, which I cut with his own gully, we found the key.†   (source)
  • The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena.†   (source)
  • But an innate repugnance to playing a part at all approaching that of an informer against one's own shipmates—the same erring sense of uninstructed honor which had stood in the way of his reporting the matter at the time though as a loyal man-of-war-man it was incumbent on him, and failure so to do if charged against him and proven, would have subjected him to the heaviest of penalties; this, with the blind feeling now his, that nothing really was being hatched, prevailed with him.†   (source)
  • Overcoming the repugnance natural to one who had never before touched a dead body, I stooped and turned him over to feel for his heart.†   (source)
  • Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips.†   (source)
  • After a moment balanced between pity and repugnance she agreed, and full of morning energy, bounced upstairs beside Abe.†   (source)
  • She seems somehow more reconciled, or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders.†   (source)
  • He was going to walk with her, perhaps kiss her; but "courting" was too coolly purposeful to be anything but repugnant to his ideas.†   (source)
  • You all hate Burdovsky because his behaviour with regard to his mother is shocking and repugnant to you; do you not?†   (source)
  • I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her.†   (source)
  • "I don't understand your thoughts, Lizabetha Prokofievna; but I can see that the fact of my having written is for some reason repugnant to you.†   (source)
  • "Mynheer Peeperkorn," he said, "I would find it most repugnant to lie to you, and I am seeking some way to avoid doing so.†   (source)
  • So, while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at Newport, or being spanked or tutored or read to from "Do and Dare," or "Frank on the Mississippi," Amory was biting acquiescent bell-boys in the Waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly specialized education from his mother.†   (source)
  • And the tender relations between Phillotson and the young girl of whom Jude was passionately enamoured effectually made it repugnant to Jude's tastes to apply to Phillotson for advice on his own scheme.†   (source)
  • To mortify his smell was more difficult as he found in himself no instinctive repugnance to bad odours whether they were the odours of the outdoor world, such as those of dung or tar, or the odours of his own person among which he had made many curious comparisons and experiments.†   (source)
  • But for my part, I suspect that the tables of consanguinity have a natural basis in a natural repugnance [he rises].†   (source)
  • —there is nothing wrong except my own wickedness, I suppose you'd call it—a repugnance on my part, for a reason I cannot disclose, and what would not be admitted as one by the world in general!†   (source)
  • "The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now?†   (source)
  • Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce that this neglect of religious observances was repugnant to her early traditions, and that during her visits to Bellomont she regularly accompanied Muriel and Hilda to church.†   (source)
  • This poor feeble boy of eighteen—exhausted by disease—looked for all the world as weak and frail as a leaflet torn from its parent tree and trembling in the breeze; but no sooner had his eye swept over his audience, for the first time during the whole of the last hour, than the most contemptuous, the most haughty expression of repugnance lighted up his face.†   (source)
  • Lily knew people who "lived like pigs," and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence.†   (source)
  • The little flame under his hand cast a deeper crimson on his puffing face, and Lily averted her eyes with a momentary feeling of repugnance.†   (source)
  • His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.†   (source)
  • Mr. Rosedale—making himself promptly at home in an adjoining easy-chair, and sipping his tea critically, with the comment: "You ought to go to my man for something really good"—appeared totally unconscious of the repugnance which kept her in frozen erectness behind the urn.†   (source)
  • She had but a moment in which to consider whether this glimpse of the fireside man mitigated her repugnance, or gave it, rather, a more concrete and intimate form; for at sight of her he was immediately on his feet again, the florid and dominant Rosedale of Mattie Gormer's drawing-room.†   (source)
  • It would have seemed beforehand like a ridiculous piece of bad logic that he, with his unmixed resolutions of independence and his select purposes, would find himself at the very outset in the grasp of petty alternatives, each of which was repugnant to him.†   (source)
  • But there were other causes of repugnance; causes which, though still existing, and existing to an equal degree in both instances, I had myself endeavoured to forget, because they were not immediately before me.†   (source)
  • Emma gave him back the letter; then at dinner, for appearance's sake, she affected a certain repugnance.†   (source)
  • I am going away for a long while; and though, as you will allow, I'm by no means a very soft creature, it would be anything but cheerful for me to carry away with me the idea that you remember me with repugnance.'†   (source)
  • To attempt detaining her was out of the question; and to part from her, after all she had hazarded to serve her, was repugnant to all the just and kind feelings of our heroine's nature.†   (source)
  • My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.†   (source)
  • She recalled the efforts she had made at first to overcome the repugnance she felt for him, as for all consumptive people, and the pains it had cost her to think of things to say to him.†   (source)
  • Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.†   (source)
  • It was a simple physical fear—the weak of the strong; there was no emotional aversion or inner repugnance.†   (source)
  • Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors.†   (source)
  • In all the civilized countries of Europe the Government has always shown the greatest repugnance to allow the cases to which it was itself a party to be decided by the ordinary course of justice.†   (source)
  • The language, the dress, and the daily actions of men in democracies are repugnant to ideal conceptions.†   (source)
  • She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt; no more smile with the household joy, nor mourn with the kindred sorrow; or, should it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance.†   (source)
  • "Strange!" perhaps you will say, "this rush of impulse to-wards a course that might have seemed the most repugnant to her present state of mind, and in only the second night of her sadness!"†   (source)
  • It certainly operated to prolong in their case, and to confirm to them as their only inheritance, those feelings of repugnance and superstitious terror with which the people of the town, even after awakening from their frenzy, continued to regard the memory of the reputed witches.†   (source)
  • He stood at Miss Temple's side; he was speaking low in her ear: I did not doubt he was making disclosures of my villainy; and I watched her eye with painful anxiety, expecting every moment to see its dark orb turn on me a glance of repugnance and contempt.†   (source)
  • On the other hand Paul Hover, who had been literally a conquered man, manifested the strongest repugnance to submit to the violent liberties that were taken with his person and property.†   (source)
  • She had an extraordinary repugnance to dining in company; would never do so, if it were possible to escape.†   (source)
  • They were no sooner gone, than Monks, who appeared to entertain an invincible repugnance to being left alone, called to a boy who had been hidden somewhere below.†   (source)
  • He must be gone within a few hours, though without feeling any real alarm for his aunt, to lessen his repugnance.†   (source)
  • The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.†   (source)
  • I felt some repugnance at thus paining the animal, but it was a case of necessity, and I could not hesitate.†   (source)
  • There were eight thousand dollars to gain, without changing his route; for which it was well worth conquering the repugnance he had for all kinds of passengers.†   (source)
  • His talents were of the very first order, although his mind showed a preference always for the ideal and the aesthetic, and there was about him that repugnance to the actual business of life which is the common result of this balance of the faculties.†   (source)
  • The Baronet owed his son a sum of money out of the jointure of his mother, which he did not find it convenient to pay; indeed he had an almost invincible repugnance to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force to discharge his debts.†   (source)
  • He had seated himself again, and as he drew, was thinking what he could say to Tom, and trying to overcome his own repugnance to making the first advances.†   (source)
  • But the first was repugnant to him.†   (source)
  • Their sense of his usefulness would have counteracted any repugnance or suspicion which was not confirmed by a deficiency in the quality or the tale of the cloth he wove for them.†   (source)
  • For a time Price arose as a new leader, destined, it seemed, not to give up, but to re-state the old ideals in a form less repugnant to the white South.†   (source)
  • It is true that it appears to be repugnant to you; and it is very natural, for you bourgeois are not accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • And being a Musketeer but for a time, I only fight when I am forced to do so, and always with great repugnance; but this time the affair is serious, for here is a lady compromised by you.†   (source)
  • Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction.†   (source)
  • I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.†   (source)
  • With a shivering repugnance at the idea of personal contact with the world, a powerful impulse still seized on Clifford, whenever the rush and roar of the human tide grew strongly audible to him.†   (source)
  • But her instinctive dignity and repugnance to any show of emotion made her sit perfectly still, and only throw a little more decision into her voice, as she said— "No, indeed, Mr. Godfrey, that's not known to me, and I have very good reasons for thinking different.†   (source)
  • The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feeling; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced.†   (source)
  • Enough, that I saw my own feelings reflected in Herbert's face, and not least among them, my repugnance towards the man who had done so much for me.†   (source)
  • Not the least of these would have been a contention, always waging within it, between a tendency to dislike Mr Henry Gowan, if not to regard him with positive repugnance, and a whisper that the inclination was unworthy.†   (source)
  • It seemed strange to him that there was no trace of repugnance, no trace of disgust, no tremor in her hand.†   (source)
  • …he sat still for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate's malignant eye and perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being—a repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved—this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.†   (source)
  • In speaking of philosophical method among the Americans, I have shown that nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms.†   (source)
  • She knew that the world is divided into masters whose duty it is to command, and simple folk whose duty it is to serve them—and so she felt no repugnance to servility and prostrations to the ground; but she treated those in subjection to her kindly and gently, never let a single beggar go away empty-handed, and never spoke ill of any one, though she was fond of gossip.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER LXIV A Vagabond Chapter We must pass over a part of Mrs. Rebecca Crawley's biography with that lightness and delicacy which the world demands—the moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.†   (source)
  • She performed her task with a graceful and dignified simplicity and modesty, which might, even in more civilized days, have served to redeem it from whatever might seem repugnant to female delicacy.†   (source)
  • I am surprised to remember that my wrath and revengeful feelings were extremely repugnant to my own nature, for being of an easy temper, I found it difficult to be angry with any one for long, and so I had to work myself up artificially and became at last revolting and absurd.†   (source)
  • Very soon rich fat began to drop from them, and they smelt so temptingly good, that all repugnance to the idea of eating worms vanished; and, putting one like a pat of butter on a baked potato, I boldly swallowed it, and liked it so much, that several others followed in the same way.†   (source)
  • "Now tell me," proceeds Allan, making a strong effort to overcome his repugnance, going very near to him, and leaning over him with an expression of confidence, "tell me how it came about that you left that house when the good young lady had been so unfortunate as to pity you and take you home."†   (source)
  • At that distance they accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired.†   (source)
  • The Americans, who have made such copious innovations in their political legislation, have introduced very sparing alterations in their civil laws, and that with great difficulty, although those laws are frequently repugnant to their social condition.†   (source)
  • Still it was so repugnant to her feelings to abuse the confidence this gentle and affectionate creature had evidently reposed in her, that Mabel had no sooner admitted the thought of summoning her uncle, than she rejected it as unworthy of herself and unjust to her friend.†   (source)
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