Yet the repellant attitude of the great controversialist was that of very many representative Catholics of his time, especially those holding his high office.
Miss Burton was evidently meditating how she could approach Ida, who seemed encased in a repellant atmosphere.
She did not seem inclined to enter into conversation, and yet she was not repellant and cold, but rather seemed to shrink from notice, and to indicate that past memories were embarrassing.
We grow colder and more repellant each day, instead of drawing closer together and becoming more lovingly assimilated.
People wished to find the angular and repellantsides of her character in order to see how far she might be to blame.
They raised their repellant faces and looked at the captive with no little curiosity, but offered him no harm.
With a coolness that must have awakened admiration among the barbarians, the youth, standing in the middle of the group, folded his arms, and smilingly looked in the repellant faces, none of which were at a greater altitude than his own.
Crab } by reason of a thick-growth { Buckthorn } and repellant thorns and spines.
Its thorns render it thoroughly repellant to cattle.
Please interpret what I say in the next few minutes metaphorically, and pardon me if my picture is a repellant one.
You can imagine, now, how much more repellant and appalling this representation of the Roman world under Christianity would have been had I stretched my canvas to include also these later centuries.
Human nature, by the fall in the Garden of Eden, became weak and subjected to malign influences with an inadequacy of repellant power to overcome them.
A new chairman has, uninvited, installed himself at the head of the table, and he is making the liquor circulate with such hearty goodwill that the topers have received him, in spite of his repellant exterior, as one of themselves.
In fact every society is repellant of strangers in the degree that it is sufficient to itself, and is incurious concerning the rest of the world.
I understand you," said he, with his cynic repellant smile.
She had thought she might perhaps soften his contempt by reminding him that there was another and a less repellant side to her character.
But that prodigal wanton had there been caught, had had her tresses sleeked and bound, her luxuriant figure corseted and clad in the most repellant classical severity.
The Count sat down upon the trunk of a tree, with his back to the before-named bush; he did not for a moment alter his cold, repellant manner.
That was just the calm, cold, and repellant tone which he allowed himself towards some one who did not know how to keep at a distance.
They only borrowed in hard necessity; but borrowing on usury to make a profit by it was as repellant to the Christian conscience then as complicity with theft or fraud.
No doubt many who would have been glad to give him their friendship were deterred by the wide-spread reports of his suspicious, unapproachable, almost repellant nature.
This rough, repellant man actually paid court to me, served me at table as if I had been his lady.
She raised a hand with a repellant gesture towards the other men.
I'm quite satisfied," he replied to her, making a repellant motion towards the watch and dangling chain glittering in the electric-light.
Inland, to the southward, the country even in this day is known as the most hostile and repellant desert in Australia, markedly deficient in continuous watercourses.
Thence Austin made directly north, and passing through repellant country, such as always fell to the lot of the early western explorers in their initial efforts, he directed his course to a distant range of table-topped hills.
Once more he gazed over the dreary waste of the stony desert, unchanged and repellant as ever.
She had noticed nothing more than Waldemar's abrupt pause, which her sudden appearance sufficiently explained, had seen his stern repellant attitude towards his mother and herself.
Waldemar's stern, almost repellant manner had in no way changed, and his reserve grew rather than diminished in this closer intercourse.
There was a stand-off, repellant air about him, a lack of affability; his whole being bore too distinctly the stamp of a close and sombre reserve for any one ever to feel instinctively drawn to him.
I find at times--as my mood changes--something almostrepellant in the B minor Scherzo.
To be sure the book also contains some morbid, feverish, repellant traits; but let everyone look in it for something that will enchant him.
He who came from other lands was received with a repellant isolation, decreed by those who no longer exist.
Mary continued for him ever an original woman, in whom there was always something left to conquer; tolerant at certain hours, repellant and austere throughout the rest of the day.
If anything," wrote one woman, "she is actually repellant in manner to half the ladies in the garrison.
He was not going to die in any such squalid hole as this, among the dirty and repellant semblances of humanity, who, under the circumstances, grudgingly ministered to his wants.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repellant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
