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Definition
to force something to move away
- 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.Episode 2 — Nestor (66% in)
- Skeleton horses, Sceptre, Maximum the Second, Zinfandel, the Duke of Westminster's Shotover, Repulse, the Duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, prix de Paris.Episode 15 — Circe (81% in)
There are no more uses of "repulse" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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