The secret of the whole is, that the heart is not impressed; it is never touched, and it therefore repels the approaches of Him who is love, as the granite rock repels the spray of the ocean.
But if I try it now upon the other end of the needle, where the eye is, it will repel that, just as the large end of the magnet repels the point.
Each of these poles repels a pole like itself, and attracts one different from itself, in any other magnet.
While Dyson repels Warburton's accusations against "the Poet," he retorts some against the critic himself.
It seems probable, that it is not the magnetic ether itself which attracts or repels particles of iron, but that an attractive and repulsive ether attends the magnetic ethers, as was shown to attend the electric ones in No.
Each also repels those minds to whom it is repugnant, and drives them toward the group which is being formed about the contradictory idea or belief.
He repels any effort to disturb him in the realization of the instinctive impulses.
One side of this duality is the creative power of life, the other side is the resistant power which repels life.
Generally, he repels her; she recoils to the right and to the left, and seeks shelter in the marshes of Saintonge, or among the Medoc vineyards to whose vines she imparts the cool and sober qualities of her own waters.
Let an artist occupy himself with the reproduction of voluptuous forms; while pleasing the senses, he disturbs, he repels in us the chaste and pure idea of beauty.
In the other life such accept all falsity with delight, imbibing it as a sponge does water; and they repel all truth as an elastic bony substance repels what falls upon it.
Everyone's love is like a spongy or porous wood, which imbibes such fluids as promote its growth, and repels others.
When a state either repels war waged against it, or wages it against another, magistrates are chosen to preside over that war with such authority that they have power of life and death.
The one saved represents Apollo, who has overtaken Daphne, and is clasping her in his arms, while the nymph, who has fallen on her knees, repels the embraces of the deity.
The pallid vision which he repelsspeaks dumbly of pagan regret for what is past, of pagan hopelessness of the to-come.
The determination never to sacrifice sense to sound is the secret of whatever repels us in Mr. Browning's verse, and also of whatever attracts.
James Lee" is (as we understand) a man of shallow nature, whose wife's earnestnessrepels him when its novelty has ceased to charm.
This fact proves that the caterpillar has a particular art by which it repels the water from between the leaves.
Christian doctrine repels the attacks made upon public order with much more severity than the violations of individual rights; it brands them as crimes of treason against society.
The indignant heart repels a conviction that is believed to debase it.
Gilbert showed that a north pole always repels another north pole and attracts a south pole, while, on the other hand, a south pole always repels a south pole and attracts a north pole.
It appears from these facts that electricity has the power of disturbing or decomposing the neutral state of a neighbouring conductor, and attracting the unlike while it repels the like induced charge.
Certainly life is a good for such as possess the Good, (it is a good) not because the soul is united to the body, but because she repels evil by virtue.
A friend in need is a friend indeed, and this friend is handsome as well as kind, although there is a little something or other, a suppressed vindictiveness, about his expression, that repels her.
If the verbiage of many books of the Old Testament repels you, then get a single volume like The Soul of the Bible, arranged by Ulysses Pierce and printed by the American Unitarian Association of Boston.
So it is whenever a new truth comes into the world: it attracts the free-minded, the lovers of truth; it repels those bound by interest or passion.
Love attracts the truthful, and repels the wilful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
