Both Uses of
repulse
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Framed around the walls images of vanished horses stood in homage, their meek heads poised in air: lord Hastings' Repulse, the duke of Westminster's Shotover, the duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris, 1866.†
Chpt 2 *
- Skeleton horses, Sceptre, Maximum the Second, Zinfandel, the Duke of Westminster's Shotover, Repulse, the Duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(repulse as in: repulse the attack) to force something to move away