Repulsive

Examples

• It was a repulsive sight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Krempe was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his doctrine. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And now, when the question of voting had come, this repulsive fact told more strongly against Mr. Farebrother than it had done before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Below this repulsive orifice the face was quite blank to the chin, for the thing had no mouth that I could discover. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Genessaret under these lustrous stars has nothing repulsive about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She grew capricious; her gentle conduct towards him was exchanged for asperity and repulsive coldness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How repulsive her completeness and her finality was! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Its ray tanks were charged only with sufficient repulsive energy to lift two ordinary men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Never shall I forget the repulsive sight that met my eye when I turned round. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Guericke first observed the repulsive power of electricity, and the light and noise produced by it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Even at fifty you will not be repulsive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I mean that I thought her the most repulsive and vilely hideous creature my eyes ever had rested upon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Think of what she is herself (now I am repulsive and you abominate me). Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To Gudrun, however, it was potent and half-repulsive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was such a dreary, repulsive, horrible solitude! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What is inherently repulsive is endured for the sake of averting something still more repulsive or of securing a gain hitched on by others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He had a queer, subterranean beauty, repulsive too. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is hard to forget repulsive things. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is a most repulsive quality, indeed, said he. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were almost repulsive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her manners were cold and repulsive. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was not a question of taking one's life--she would NEVER kill herself, that was repulsive and violent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was answered by another Jew: younger than Fagin, but nearly as vile and repulsive in appearance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He was so attractive, and so repulsive at one. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As I turn over the pages, I see my notes upon the repulsive story of the red leech and the terrible death of Crosby, the banker. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The further we went the hotter the sun got, and the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was, as the inspector had said, extremely dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its repulsive ugliness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The refuse and the ore make a mass of weakness: taken altogether, I feel them unnatural, unhealthy, repulsive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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