Equiano carefully marks both his own repulsion from the bodies of the. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference
Then Mizander shook his head and looked away in repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Blonde, Black and Blood Red] Reference
Deleah recalled the repulsion with which she had seen them lying there. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
She did not meet him with that kind of repulsion which is equivalent to pushing back with the hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand but Not the Heart] Reference
Yet another type of bias can be expected to emerge in distance estimation performance, a so-called repulsion effect observed e.g., in motion direction perception. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Other people had experienced the same kind of repulsion, but knew not where it lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
When the Persian Armies descended on the Spartans they wouldn't have ever guessed what kind of repulsion their intended victims could manage. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"] Reference
"The force of repulsion, which is little known, but just as powerful, is another that mankind may direct. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Key, an Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity] Reference
The General's companion chanced to be a man for whom he felt a kind of repulsion whenever he met him in other houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchesse De Langeais] Reference
"repulsion" at the mention of the one-time seminary schoolboy's name. From Wordnik.com. [RIA Novosti] Reference
With what inherent repulsion do you look back upon them?. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Attraction or gravitation with the planets, and repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In my hum thar's a attraction, but thar's also a repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
"Automatic radium repulsion rays," explained the professor. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
She looked scared, and drew back with manifest signs of repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
"Sheer flesh-crawling repulsion," the columnist Joseph Alsop wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference
Feelings of repulsion won't do, since feelings are not reasons at all. From Wordnik.com. [William K. Black: Why Gay Opponents Hated and Feared the Proposition 8 Trial] Reference
What would the life of a man be if he could feel no fear or repulsion?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
A cold feeling of horror and repulsion stole over Paul as he listened. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
But Janetta, after the first moment of repulsion and astonishment, was not dismayed. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
All men are not equally moved by fear, anger, repulsion, tender emotion, or sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
And on a host of other fronts there is a sense of repulsion they feel towards the GOP. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Should Feel 'Uncomfortable' That Conservatives Are Co-opting Gay Rights Issues: Top Dem] Reference
Nor do all men find the same things the objects of their fear, anger, repulsion, and the rest. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
And then her reaction, the repulsion that she, Michelle, felt — that scared her too. From Wordnik.com. [Eviction] Reference
The act of repulsion, the ring in her voice half angered him; at the same time it added fuel to desire. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Moreover, he had too much tact not to be aware of the instinctive repulsion with which he inspired Julien. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That movement of repulsion was so instinctive, so brutal, that all Risler's emotion changed to indignation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the only home she knew, she felt herself an object of dislike, and met only cold neglect, or rude repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
It is this contradiction that makes Hong Kong look to the north with such a confusing mix of attraction and repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Of Mao Zedong Chic] Reference
But Delivorrias was responding to his instinctive feeling on first seeing the piece, a sense of "intuitive repulsion.". From Wordnik.com. [Beware the Blinkers] Reference
The very use of the word "only" in this context ought to send a frisson of repulsion down the spines of civilized men. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
The effort was successful, and this time there was no glow of repulsion rays from the side of the long metal cylinder. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
You understand, I make no pretensions of turning her head, but still I do not wish to be an object of repulsion to her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The simple brick building had become an object of simultaneous attraction and repulsion for me, like a science class magnet. From Wordnik.com. [The Bodice-Ripper Free School Zone Act] Reference
I had to overcome my repulsion and learn to handle these insects, and consider them creatures to be studied for the advancement of science. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Jobs: Odd Ducks] Reference
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