There was such concentrated bitterness in her tone that Lord St. Amant felt repelled--repelled as well as sorry.
But, though strongly attracted by her instinctive, girlish wiles, he was also, quite unknowingly to her, repelled by those same wiles.
They had spurned the French, repelled the claims of the English, and by act and word asserted their independence of both.
Bands of militia, vigilant, agile, and well commanded, followed it along the shore, and repelled with showers of bullets every attempt of the enemy to touch Canadian soil.
The Iroquois declared that they loved the English, but they repelled every attempt to control their action.
About noon the attack began in front, and all day long—now here, now there—the French repelled assaults which showed prodigies of valor and brought no reward.
In this he repelled the intimation that there was any disposition on the part of the Americans to combine to throw off their allegiance to the crown, though such views were not wholly unrife in England or in the colonies.
It repelled him, and, with all his mighty intellectual and moral energy, he attacked it.
For, in those days, the deep spirituality of the Brahman had overflowed its banks and had created a multitudinous pantheon which repelled this man of stern mind.
Hickey indignantlyrepelled the advice; the more the danger the greater the glory.
Not that the Butcher had not been friendly; but he was so blunt and rough and unbending that he rather repelled intimacy.
He repelled the thought that this was a manifestation of the spirit of the school; it was rather the isolated act of misguided unfortunates who should never have entered the institution, who would leave it the day of their detection.
A look at his face in the electric light gave edge to her misgivings, but at first she could not tell what there was about him that repelled her.
Somehow the curve of the haughtily tilted chin repelled her.
My reason and feelings repelled all the dogmas and practices so sacred to Ellen, as hers did those most congenial to my spirit!
Mr. Wilkins sat down, and repelled his nearer approach without speaking.
The idea that genius was a special morbid condition had indeed often occurred to me, but I had always repelled it; and besides, without a sure experimental basis, ideas to-day do not count.
I have sometimes been repelled by a feeling of the same kind," he answered.
There was a gruffness in the invitation which under ordinary circumstances would have repelled a visitor.
Miriam had never spoken with a young man whom she did not in her heart despise; the one or two who might possibly have been tempted to think of her as a desirable wife were repelled by her austerity.
There was something almost fiercely virginal about her, something bordering upon enthusiasm in the way she repelled an attempted incursion upon the forbidden ground.
These sacred edifices are held in such veneration, and so guarded from desecration, that an infidel is repelled from them with even more jealousy than from the precincts of Santa Sophia.
Siege was laid to it by the victorious Severus, but it repelled all his assaults for three years.
Bancroft did not know what to say, for the calm seriousness of the Elder repelled sympathy.
He watched her with indifferent curiosity; the abrupt changes of mood repelled him.
Notice that the lower end of this armature acts like the blue end of your compass needle in that it is repelled from the pole N of the field and is attracted toward S of the field.
In like manner, the upper end or pole of the armature is repelled from S and attracted to N of the field.
The lower end which was formerly the north pole of the armature has now become the south pole, as proven by the fact that it is repelled from the south pole of the field and attracted to its north pole.
But she repelled her husband's caresses with indifference, and when he began to coax her, she burst into tears.
Prabhasa repelled the numerous arrows, which these eight came and discharged, and he pierced them all at the same time with arrows.
But Harsha repelled his arrows, struck down his chariot-horses, and his banner and his charioteer, and cut off his head with its trembling earrings.
But he repelled his arrows with the multitude of his own, and pierced him with three arrows in the forehead.
And Suryaprabha repelled those weapons with ease, and kept striking Indra with hundreds of arrows drawn back to the ear.
That mighty weapon of Siva repelled the weapon of Brahma, and being irresistible, was overpowering Srutasarman, when Indra and the other Lokapalas, being indignant, sent forth their tremendous weapons beginning with thunderbolts.
Then Muktaphalaketu repelled with case every weapon that the king of the Daityas and his son sent forth.
He said, "This weapon of Brahma cannot be repelled by any weapon except the weapon of Pasupati Rudra, which is unattainable by me.
Fox sent him a passport, and admitted him to an interview; but indignantly repelled his disclosure, true or false, of a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
This imputation was repelled by the chancellor of the exchequer; but it was still maintained that such must have been its effect.
At Gambia attempts were made to overpower by main force the whole party, and seize all they possessed; but, by merely presenting their muskets, the assault was repelled without bloodshed.
They passed Silla and Jenne in a friendly manner; but at Rakbara (Kabra) and Timbuctoo, they were attacked by several armed parties, who were repelled only by a smart and destructive fire.
Forgetting every other person, he hurried to the hotel Lucretia had chosen; but her coldness deceived and her pride repelled him.
Sir Miles looked up in surprise; but the calm, pitying face bent on him repelled all return of pride.
It was impossible for me to accept all their invitations or to escape their attentions; I repelled them, however, with great interior contempt.
That evening, Toledo found himself brusquely repelled by his Prince, when he tried to tell him about a letter which he had received from Paris.
His lips repelled the liquid, and went on repeating the painful moans.
Bending forward, with an involuntary movement, she kissed the faded lips, which, when rosy with health, had always repelled her maternal caresses.
She had never thought of her being wooed as a wife, and she repelled the idea as something sacrilegious.
By their courage and vigor the northern provinces had repelled the attacks of the enemy and discouraged future attempts against them.
The arguments drawn from local interests were repelled and retorted, and a great degree of irritation was excited on both sides.
He had repelled our cavalry attacks on his railroad, and had damaged us seriously thereby, so I expected that he would attempt the same game against our rear.
We had, however, met successfully a bold sally, had repelled it handsomely, and were also put on our guard; and the event illustrated the future tactics of our enemy.
He came again just before dark, and described the last assault made by the rebels at the ravine, near the steamboat-landing, which he had repelled by a heavy battery collected under Colonel J.
The memory of the look in Jude's face when the money cast a gleam over his hate, repelled him.
Gaston was touched by the yearning in the low voice, but the weazened face of the child repelled him, even while it attracted him.
The defenders repelled the attack with machine gun and mortar fire, but for the remainder of the night "confusion reigned supreme and the odds and ends were not rounded up until the next morning.
