Repulse

Examples

• For ten days after this repulse the Duke of Brunswick hesitated, and then he began to fall back towards the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am told many of these persons think about her, sir, I went ongaining courage on finding that I met attention rather than repulse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The ladies of Gaunt House called Lady Bareacres in to their aid, in order to repulse the common enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was not long ere he found him, foaming with indignation at a repulse he had anew sustained from the fair Jewess. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Athens, prospering for a time after the Persian repulse, was smitten by the plague, in which Pericles, its greatest ruler, died (428 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Paul and I did battle more than once--strong battle, with confused noise of demand and rejection, exaction and repulse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But naturally enough this suggestion was repulsed by Yuan Chwang. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before the arrival of Wright the enemy had made two assaults on Sheridan, both of which were repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a slight attack on Burnside's and Wright's corps as they moved out of their lines; but it was easily repulsed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During the night, General Banks fell back to Pleasant Hill, where another battle was fought on the 9th, and the enemy repulsed with great loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He assaulted at once, but was repulsed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Upton first drove the enemy, and was then repulsed in turn. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Our cavalry under Gregg was also attacked, but repulsed the enemy with great loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the right the enemy, if not being pressed back, was at least not repulsing our advance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She--repulsing him with insult, and he imploring her with infatuation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• How will she bear the shocks and repulses, the humiliations and desolations, which books, and my own reason, tell me are prepared for all flesh? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There were heavy attacks on either side that ended in bloody repulses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The little man seemed rather baffled by these several repulses, and a short consultation took place between him and the two plump gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She knows it, Kantos Kan, and repulses me only because she is promised to Sab Than. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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