She too--she whom he had repulsed unpardoning--she too was doomed with them.
He had repulsed her,--shrunk with loathing undisguised as from a reptile, and all for love of the pale-face.
That attack we might have repulsed or we might not, but assuredly it would have taxed our strength to the utmost, and even if the first had been unsuccessful, the second might not have been.
There had been no communication with the coast for nearly ten days; the enemy daily became more daring, and their attacks were repulsed with ever–increasing difficulty.
His little force, however, repulsed them with heavy loss; but as ammunition was then beginning to run short, and the enemy was still increasing in strength, Lieutenant Smith retired.
Considering the force that they have at their disposal, they ought to have repulsed the attack with ease.
Often he was ready to listen to him and talk with him as a friend, but often, too, he repulsed him more sharply than the haughtiest upstart would repel the meanest of his servants.
Titianus, Pontius, Balbilla and even Antinous had all attempted to speak of him to the Emperor, but each was sharply repulsed and taught that Hadrian was little inclined to pardon a wound to his artist's vanity.
On the 26th Colonel Nixon repulsed a like attack made upon the line of the Cornelis River, but on the 27th the sweep down to Harrismith closed with the surrender to Colonel Sir H.
January, and continued hotly for some twenty minutes, after which Beyers was repulsed with the loss of three of his band, while three others lay dangerously wounded within 300 yards of the defence.
Half-an-hour later the Boers attacked our rearguard, but were repulsed after a short though severe fight, in which Paget's Horse lost one killed and two wounded.
But the Dutchmen were quickly repulsed (with the loss of Civil Surgeon Robertson and one man), and Colonel Benson moved on, impeded by many thunderstorms, towards Brugspruit via Bakenlaagte.
These eventually were repulsed by the Yeomanry, Scottish Horse, and South Africa Constabulary, who fought with their accustomed coolness and brilliancy.
The enemy were repulsed with the loss of five of their number, while the British party had no casualties.
Colonel Benson repulsedattack on his rearguard on the Steenkool Spruit.
Attack on Piquetberg repulsedby garrison under Major Wilson and Town Guard.
The Languedocians, however, repulsed their assailants with great loss, and further negotiations, which afterwards took place, only resulted in a second refusal on the part of Raymond to pay the required homage.
Winchelsea made a successful resistance, and the Earl of Arundel, falling on the combined fleet before Southampton, repulsed it with great loss.
Again and again the royalist troops advanced against the little band on the hill, and again and again were repulsed with heavy loss.
In his first campaign against them, which commenced in the sixth year of his government, the Romans experienced a severe check, as the enemy nearly forced their camp, and were only repulsed after causing considerable damage.
Profiting by their elevated position, they accepted, or rather engaged, the combat, and when repulsed withdrew into an admirably fortified camp, which was not taken without much difficulty.
Henry, however, made a vigorous defence, and having repulsed the attacks of the French with success, he obtained a truce.
The next morning, Monday, the 19th of September, the French army was again drawn out; and again Cardinal Talleyrand endeavoured to move the mind of the French king; but he repulsed him rudely.
The attack was made by the men of Galloway, who rushed impetuously on the English infantry and broke their ranks; the cavalry, however, remained firm round their standard, and repulsed the charges of the Scots with great slaughter.
The mayor, it seems, claimed Michael Belot's place of standing before the king, but was repulsed by Henry, who decided that the former should serve him.
The day following the enemy again made an attempt, in equal force, against our post on Mascot, and was again repulsed with great loss.
One after another they closed and boarded, one after another they were flung back beaten and in confusion, their boarders being repulsed again and again, taking refuge in their own ships or else falling into the seas.
For while we have, like valiant men, repulsed so many of our enemies, it were folly now to shorten the honour of our nation by prolonging our lives for a few hours or a few days.
Several brigades were engaged, and the enemy were repulsed with the loss of several hundred left dead and wounded on the field.
Gen Finnegan has repulsed the enemy's force at Lake City--details not known.
Hampton, on his return in the afternoon, at Belchess' mill, on the Jerusalem Plank Road, but was repulsed and driven back.
From Charleston we learn that Beauregard had repulsed every assault of the enemy.
Our troopsrepulsed the assailants at all points but one, and that, which was carried by the enemy, was soon recovered.
But Beauregard, from whom was taken the command of the Western army, day before yesterday repulsed with slaughter a large detachment of the Yankees that had penetrated to the Charleston and Savannah Railroad.
Lee says the enemy is moving down toward Fredericksburg, and yesterday the advance of our army encountered his right wing at Spottsylvania Court House, and repulsed it "with great slaughter.
Breckinridge's line, and again were repulsed by the Floridians.
At seven o'clock this morning the enemy endeavored to advance between the Darbytown and Charles City Roads, but was repulsed in every attempt.
To-day the enemy sprung a mine at Petersburg, but were repulsed in the attempt to rush in.
At Grand Gulf our batteries have repulsed their gun-boats, but the battle is to be renewed.
And when I stepped to the hydrant for a glass of water, the tumbler repulsed me by the smell of whisky.
We have no clear account yet of the fighting yesterday; but we know the enemy was repulsed on this side of the river.
There was a fight near Suffolk yesterday, and it is reported that our troops repulsed the enemy.
The amusement and excesses of gayety, which ordinarily delight the young, had for him no charm; and he repulsed with horror the poisoned cup to which so many open eager lips.
Cloe, repulsed by Thenot, sings her roguishly wanton carol: Come, shepherds, come!
Having now become duchess she seeks to renew her intercourse with the prince, and being repulsed resolves upon revenge.
He at last appeals to the king himself, but is again repulsed because he is accompanied by Truth in place of Adulation[387].
At length, the formidable armament which had invested that fortress was repulsed with immense slaughter; after which the place was relieved by Lord Howe, and the besiegers abandoned the enterprise in despair.
Sidenote: Is repulsed and retires from before that place.
Before the arrival of Lincoln, a party of the insurgents attempted to dislodge Shepard, but wererepulsed with some loss.
The ammunition which repulsed the enemy at Bunker's Hill, was purchased by Massachusetts; and formed a part of the debt of that state.
Ten years afterward she renewed her attempts upon Europe on a grander scale of enterprise, and was repulsed by Greece with greater and reiterated loss.
Left to themselves, the Eretrians repulsed the assaults of the Persians against their walls for six days; on the seventh they were betrayed by two of their chiefs, and the Persians occupied the city.
Even in the last hour of retreat the English showed their strength; the assaults of the French were repulsed on all sides, and when night closed they were everywhere falling back in confusion.
Meanwhile, Julian, fighting valiantly in Africa, had justrepulsed an attack of Mousa on the castle of Ceuta, standing on a cape which juts out into the Straits, the nearest point to the Spanish mainland.
The maiden had already repulsed half the braves of his tribe.
Again and again he repulsed his pursuer in this fashion, till he lured him to the lodge where his benefactors lived.
My friend strove to stay me; but, driven to madness, I repulsed all his kindness.
For some reason or other this man forced himself upon me, and though at first I repulsed his attentions he would not be denied, and I grew to tolerate him.
But the Moderate vote more than trebled, and the attacking abstainers were repulsed all along the line, though they, on their side, defeated an attempt to recapture Clutha.
Most of the Kaiapois escaped into the pa, shut the gate and repulsed a hasty assault.
During the attack the defenders of the town, however, under Captain Robertson of the Hazard, stood their ground and repulsed a first attack.
They easily repulsed his first assaults, but hundreds of women and children were among the refugees, and as was the wont of the Maoris, no proper stock of provisions had been laid in.
Next day the crew, now only fourteen in number, repulsed an attempt made in canoes to take the vessel by boarding, and killed Karaka.
The enemy's counterattacks were repulsed with heavy loss.
Attempts to bring forward hostile reinforcements were frustrated during the day by our artillery, but during the night the Bulgarians launched several strong counterattacks, which were repulsed with heavy loss.
To the left of the village Bazentin-le-Petit Wood was cleared, in spite of the considerable resistance of the enemy along its western edge, where we successfully repulsed a counterattack.
Just as it really happened in the morning, the poor Fool now makes love to her in play; but when scornfully repulsed he humbly retires, swearing to the goodness and pureness of his lady-love.
Great is therefore his surprise at finding himself repulsed by his own father, who not recognizing him, believes him to be an impostor.
But she isrepulsed by her mother-in-law, who is too proud to recognize the low-born maid as her equal, and slights her son Judah for his love.
I was not surprised that he kept aloof from the coarser inmates, but I was not prepared to find that all my own advances to confidence and companionship, were repulsed with even more decision than those of my officers.
But my turtle-dealer was not to be repulsedso easily; his ugly smile still sneered in my face as he endeavored to push me aside and drag the bucket from my hand.
The excited boarders from the repulsed boats had mounted our deck brimming with revenge.
In fact, I frankly told them our antagonist was unquestionably a British cruiser of ten or twelve guns, from whose clutches there was no escape, unless we repulsed the boats.
After Castiglione he returned to his task round Mantua and gallantly repulsed all sorties.
Forming square, he repulsed every assault, and ultimately fought his way back to camp with but slight loss, and recaptured eight French standards which the enemy had seized when they surprised Ambert's division.
He then set upon the several gates in succession, and was repulsed at all.
They were repulsed by the Norman horse, but with such loss to the latter that the duke thought it imprudent to lay siege to the city at that time, and he retired to Berkhampstead.
Here he was attacked by Sir John Gage with a thousand men, but he repulsed them and reached Ludgate without further opposition.
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