He was a kindly and not a repellent man, but when he doubted another, he doubted him; it never occurred to him that perhaps he ought to believe in that man.
It was quite a fresh shoot of her nature, for she had before been rather of a repellent disposition.
Mrs Alleyne did not reply, but gazed at the speaker haughtily, and looked as cold and repellent as the room.
But clandestine proceedings with such an offensive, repellent person as that Captain Rolph I cannot countenance.
In some instances the pioneer teachers had to carry on their service amid the lowest depths of squalor and wretchedness, even more repellent than ragged-school work in the worst quarters of a great town.
Such were the lastrepellent phases of that phase of that now obsolete world of slavery in Old Virginia as Booker Washington remembers them.
The stoical sincerity with which they are represented, and the hard outline produced by cutting out the work to mount it on its wood panel, makes a somewhat repellent impression at the first glance.
Manifestly the repellentpoles will retreat from each other, while the attractive poles will approach and finally lock themselves together.
For here the ultimate particles of matter, inconceivably small as they are, show themselves possessed of attractive and repellent poles, by the mutual action of which the shape and structure of the crystal are determined.
What did I mean when, a few moments ago I spoke of attracting and repellent poles?
Lionel had heard of people shivering when brought into contact with the repellent atmosphere that appeared to surround a particular person; but what was there deadly about this young man?
But the higher snow-fields of the great glaciers are altogether beautiful--not throned in repellent grandeur, but endowed with a grace so tender as to suggest the loveliness of woman.
Then come the repellent crags of Mont Cervin, the idea of moral savagery, of wild untameable ferocity, mingling involuntarily with our contemplation of the gloomy pile.
There was certainly nothing repellentin this temporary home of Arabian.
The faint defiance which Braybrooke thought he detected in their eyes suited them both, giving to them just a touch of the arrogance which youth and health render charming, but which in old people is repellent and ugly.
His features, marked and prominent, wore a cast of habitual thought, strangely tinctured with ferocity; and the general expression of his otherwise not unhandsome countenance was repellent and disdainful.
He is not, but here where he was is something unfamiliar and hostile, some dreadful, terrifying, and repellent mystery!
Bacon is unknown in Majorca, though ham, of strong flavour and repellent aspect, may be had.
Twenty-seven hours later they were discovered in that repellent spot, deep in a dismal subterranean passage.
Do not shrink from any useful or kindly act, however hard or repellent it may be.
The phenomena are as massive and wide-spread as is anything in Nature, and the study of them is as tedious, repellent and undignified.
Yet none of these, perhaps, was really adequate, either to the evil intentions or the repellent appearance of this pair as they advanced upon their wicked mission of jealousy and hate.
That sex and everything to do with it were repellent to him.
Men in that aspect were repellent and hateful to her; the possibility of such a union with any one of them was poisonous, even unnatural to her, soul and body.
At last came the cessation of rain; the heavy clouds rolled upwards; the perspective cleared and showed the mighty river narrowed to a gorge with the dark outposts of Capes East and West looming vast, desolate, repellent before us.
The voice was business-like, neither repellent nor inviting.
Suppose I prescribe outdoor work, riding, walking, cricket or football, according to the season; I shall be giving him repellenttasks to do.
Seneca, as we have seen, often seems to cling to the most hard and repellenttenets of the ancient creed.
It is a religion because the repellent and rigorous teaching of the older Stoicism is, as it is in Epictetus, suffused with a glow of emotion.
Sir John Thornton might be very angry, but he was the pink of propriety, and the idea of lifting the bony Antonia from the neighbourhood of the door was too repellent even to be thought of for a moment.
A repellent quality in her--which had also the trick of transforming itself into an exasperating attraction--was that she deprived him of the luxury he had been most tenacious of throughout his existence.
He was inside a mammoth arcade-like structure that stretched its repellent length out a thousand feet and more to a blind, sinister end.
The very atmosphere that permeated this hole between the hills was at once forbidding, repellent and sinister.
Enthusiasm," as meaning "popular fanaticism," was of course as repellent to a Churchman as to the deists.
Of all men of his time he had perhaps the least affinity with the Christian creed, which was repellentto him alike in the Catholic and the Protestant versions.
She drew away, and stood a moment with her repellent fingers on his breast.
Flying foxes would swoop into the tree at sundown to squeak and gibber among its repellent branches till dawn, when some, too full for flight, would hang among the lower limbs all day, sleeping with eyes veiled by leathery wings.
