If oppressed, they may bring an action at law, but they will find none but whites amongst their judges; and, although they may legally serve as jurors, prejudice repulses them from that office.
This would strengthen and support our faith indeed, and would make us more able than, for the most part, we are to apply the grace of God to ourselves, and hereafter to give more strongrepulses to Satan.
And he will make this appear at the last; and Satan knows it is so now, for he finds the power of his repulses while he pleadeth for him at the bar against him.
She pleads her profession, and the like, and she hath for her answer repulses from heaven.
But he repulses her savagely, and thrusts the paper into his breast.
But Leslie repulses the proffered embrace, and moves aside.
With hesitating step, he now draws near-- His impious hand would fain remove the veil-- Sudden a burning chill assails his bones And then an unseen arm repulses him.
Our people were thrown into sad confusion by the bloody repulses they had received--men of all regiments and arms being mixed together, officers and men groping about in the dark trying to find their regiments.
The victory here gained enabled the British army to embark without being further molested, so thoroughly had the terrible repulses of the preceding day inspired the French with respect for British valour.
Had Sheridan never reached the field, General Wright would have led us against the foe, whose ardor was already lost after the repeated repulsesfrom the single corps.
They had suffered severe repulses on the evening before, and on this day their rear-guard had been whipped by General Hooker.
Allies retake Estaires and report gains at several points; Germans denyrepulses and occupy Bruges, Thielt, Daume, and Esschen; German convoy captured by French.
Rennekampf blocks flanking movement by Germans; Servian artillery repulses Austrian warships that shell Semlin and Belgrade.
For several days Belgian field forces held the open spaces between the eastern forts, and the first German troops suffered bloody repulses and were presently compelled to pause until heavy artillery could be brought up.
That in a great war some small castle defends itself for a time, and repulses a number of storms, happens always, and importance is not attached to it usually.
There was news yesterday that the cloister holds out yet, and repulses more and more powerful assaults.
History repulses the marvel which the commander reports.
After variousrepulses and successes Sweyn takes nearly the whole of England; King Ethelred and his Queen flee to her brother Richard, Duke of Normandy.
Pope Benedict VIII repulses the Saracens at Luni, Tuscany; they besiege Salerno and are defeated by the aid of a band of Norman pilgrims returning from Jerusalem.
The rebels lost heavily in officers, several of the most valued of Forrest's falling in the repulses of his command.
During March the rebel cavalry under Morgan met with one of the most decisive repulses yet experienced by that command.
He loved her, and her repulses only increased his passion.
Previous repulses had diminished his confidence in his own persuasive powers, and being anxious for an auxiliary’s assistance he asked the Abbe Midon to accompany him.
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