1 She thought of all the things she might do--drive to Sheffield, pay visits, and the thought of all these things was repellent.
2 His art was all tubes and valves and spirals and strange colours, ultra-modern, yet with a certain power, even a certain purity of form and tone: only Mellors thought it cruel and repellent.
3 The very thought of Melanie having a child was repellent to Scarlett.
4 Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and repellent.
5 Her first movement was repellent.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL 6 I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
7 Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.
8 Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
9 The minister tremulously, but decidedly, repelled the old man's arm.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER 10 I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 11 He simply seemed to be slightly displeased with her for that first midnight conversation, which she had repelled.
12 After drinking a few sips she glanced at him, and by his expression, she saw clearly that he was repelled by her hand, and her gesture, and the sound made by her lips.
13 He looked at her oddly, still inscrutable and as she hurried on she could not tell if he were amused or repelled.
14 And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me.
15 He stood close to her, and the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness.