Attraction, when the currents flow parallel with each other, or are of opposite natures, and repelling when of like character.
According to some accounts, Dámar Wúlan had also been successful in repelling an invasion from Kambója.
The personal element in his confession is so naive and so simply straightforward that instead of seeming to be the result of conceit, and so repelling the reader, it rather attracts his {71} kindly feeling for its author.
During the day they were at work mending the ramparts, and the nights were spent inrepelling the attacks of the enemy.
The space between any three particles equally repelling each other, will be an equilateral triangle.
The particles of air are said to be hard, round, separate and distant from each other; every particle strongly repelling every other particle, whereby they recede from each other, as far as common gravity will permit.
The essence as a negative reference to itself, and as repelling itself from itself in order to a reflection in an alterum, is power and expression.
But the organ of the mind for apprehending nature is the intuition which takes, as object of the external sense, the space which has been filled and limited by the attracting and repelling forces.
The Quaker will not allow of any bloodshed whatever, either for avenging crime or repelling aggression.
It professed to be shocked at the introduction of religious affairs into the discussions of the campaign, and carried on a cowardly anti-Catholic warfare under cover of repelling purely imaginary assaults.
The rebels strove again and again to break through our thin lines, but the Union forces stood their ground with firmness, repelling every onset of the rebels till re-enforcements came back over the pontoon bridge to our aid.
It was in repelling these furious onsets that the newly-raised black regiment, under Col.
This afforded some instances of individual gallantry, by repelling the enemy's boarders, and by the British returning the compliment, and eventually striking the flag of La Nymphe.
Jenkinson and his detachment of the 98th Regiment, in repelling the enemy's boarders from the Fortitude, attracted much deserved praise.
And to our feelings, after all that might be said in apology, there still remains an impression of incongruity in the visual exhibition and direct juxtaposition of the two orders of supernatural existence so potently repelling each other.
The household image of old age, of human infirmity, and of domestic hearths, are all meant as a machinery for provoking and soliciting the fearful idea to which they are placed in collision, and as so many repelling poles.
Yi was in the north repelling an attack by the Yŭ-jin forces.
Sandoval arrived about the hour of vespers, when he found us occupied in repelling the enemy, some of them having attacked us by the causeway, and others from the ruined houses.
In such circumstances, the king hath no other part to take, but to employ the power which God hath intrusted to him in defending himself, protecting his subjects, and repelling every unjust attack.
They immediately summoned to the capital those members of their own order who were interested in repelling this daring aggression, and, forming themselves into an assembly, they at once adopted measures to vindicate their ancient rights.
Sigel retreated all day before this miserable rabble, contenting himself withrepelling their irregular attacks, which he did with perfect ease whenever they ventured to make them.
The position held by the Boers, although it was commanded by rising ground on all sides, was one which afforded admirable cover in repelling an attacking force.
There existed another connection betwixt these worthies, which had alternately a repelling and attractive influence upon their intimacy.
He first suggested the idea of two opposite directions of the moving power, an attractive and a repelling one: and he believed that originally these two coexisted in a state of repose and inactivity.
Our tent was pitched a hundred feet from the shack, whose dusky contour, wrapped in the sombre veil of night, on the mesa above us and against the sparkling firmament, looked cold and repelling indeed.
I thought, when he looked at the repelling mess and inhaled a little of those bug aromas, he would smell the joke, but he didn't.
It resembles for long reaches the rugged, precipitous coast of Norway, presenting a line of abrupt, repelling rocks, rising perpendicularly from out of the sea to an average height of two or three hundred feet.
His prowess was not only marvelous in the open field and upon the ramparts when engaged in repelling an assault, but he would lie in wait, like a hunter of wild beasts, for hours together, to obtain the chance of killing a Mussulman.
He drank a drop or two of self-pity like a poison, repelling the assaults of public pity.
