I suppose, too, that I am peculiar in such things; at any rate, so great was my distaste to talking now with Willis on the subject in question that I did not succeed in hiding my feeling.
As I went toward the Doctor's tent, my intense distaste for the work offered me seemed to lessen.
My distaste for the service became excessive, unaccountably, I should have thought, but for the fact that my interest in life had so greatly suffered because of the Captain's death.
Distaste for a profession and aptitude for Parliament would become a young man who was heir not only to the Wharton estates, but to half his father's money.
The first Coryphei broke theirs; and having learned from experience what troublesome things they are, instiled into their followers a salutary distaste for these solemn engagements that one can get along so well without.
It is a dislike, a distaste that amounts almost to a disgust for prayer especially, a repugnance that threatens to overwhelm the soul.
He was frowning, not so much in wrath, as in distaste of what he had to tell.
In Bath Ruth Lady Vyell might have reigned as a toast, a queen of society; but Sir Oliver had learnt a distaste for fashionable follies, nor did she greatly yearn for them.
It is not for me to criticise, but the distaste is well known.
Frankness was my best friend in dealing with Castelroux--frankness and his distaste for the business they had charged him with.
Farmer Graystock said something to the touchy rustic that he did not relish, and he writes his distaste in flames.
But the reaction sets in with the hour of release, and there comes a more or less marked distaste for, or dislike of, the very things to which the ex-prisoner has been looking forward for years perhaps.
But notwithstanding my fervor a distaste for all of these religious things would often take possession of me; sometimes at church especially where the gray light fell upon me and chilled me I felt it most.
Sickness, death, and trouble of many kinds put a blight on the happiness of their first married year and gave, them a distaste for the home in which they had made such a promising start.
In spite of his distaste for the platform Mark Twain was always giving readings and lectures, without charge, for some worthy Hartford cause.
This distaste for Nettie changed into a pity at the ill luck that had followed her: she didn't deserve it.
Edward Dunsack thought that as he spoke an expression of distaste stamped Gerrit's features.
A shuddering aversion fills her toward him, a distaste bordering on horror.
It revealed his distaste for his occupation, though prudence held him silent as to his deeper feelings.
These considerations must be allowed all their weight; and except for them, it is not to be supposed that Henry would have permitted private distaste or inclination to induce him to create a scandal in Europe.
He declared with an expression of sharp distaste that he could not write in hotel rooms.
He crumpled up his nose into an expression of impatient distaste at my unreasonableness.
I mooned for a time in our former footsteps, then swore and turned back across the fields, and then conceived a distaste for Cothope and went Downward.
Not for the first time he felt a sick distaste for the profession he had chosen.
Dundee cut in, rather curtly, for he had a curious distaste for hearing Penny Crain discussed in this manner.
A new and peculiar distaste for these familiar surroundings seemed suddenly to have sprung into life.
After the birth of her baby she recovered from this spasmodic distaste of this particular meat.
She took such a sudden abhorrence and distasteof the meat that she only ate it rather than go meat hungry.
As he gazed, a look of indecision, of distaste and weariness, crept into his countenance.
But she had learned so much through suffering that a sick distaste for life's lessons grew upon her, and she felt that she wanted no more of them unless knowledge should come to her through love.
When Slade had stood so a few days past she had been coldly indifferent except for a shiver of distaste at the thought of his touching her.
Instead of the shiver of distaste which he rather expected her lips were pressed tight.
Secondly, because he is, I perceive, a lover of elegancy of style and can endure no man's tautologies but his own; and therefore I would not distaste him with too frequent repetition of one word.
Yet some took great distaste thereat as attendancie to superstition.
His literary vanity smarted for a moment and then he fell to laughing, declaring that ladies always had a distaste for useful information.
What emerged was a good deal like the shy Maurice Korust, who accompanied his brother at the music-hall, but whose distaste for these gatherings had been Andrea's continual lament.
Only Andrea Korust, from his place at the head of the table, glanced occasionally towards his popular guest with a curious, half-hidden expression of distaste and suspicion.
Partly jealous and partly he has the most terrible distaste for acquaintances.
