Observance of caution being repulsive to his feelings, it was, therefore, natural that his real sentiments should occasionally escape.
The man's attempt at coaxing had a repulsive effect on the child, for he drew back, and trembled lest he should be laid hold of.
Here we are touching the doctrines which naturally excite a fierce revolt of the conscience against the most repulsive of all theological dogmas, though unfortunately a revolt which is apt to generate an indiscriminating hostility.
The living truths in his theory are chained to dead fancies, and the fancies have an odour as repulsive as Taylor's 'million of dead dogs.
Even the Scottish dialect, repulsive to some ignorant Southrons, becomes musical to his true admirers.
Fantastic and foolish in the last degree, grim and repulsive too, in many cases, have been the devices by which it has been sought to supply the necessary satisfaction.
It is a very repulsive picture of sensuality that this chapter presents.
General Ratoneau was repulsive where Napoleon was attractive.
After dragging the uncouth monster, Huitzilopochtli, from his sanctuary, the assailants hurled the repulsive image down the steps of the temple, and then set fire to the building.
One Spanish historian informs us that these innocent victims of this repulsive religion were generally bought by the priests from parents who were poor.
It is not only repulsive as an idea, but seems impossible.
For it is impossible not to think of such repulsive images, in spite of real sublimity of the call to the imagination.
If the householder, on returning at evening to his house, found the door-knocker distorted into a repulsive likeness of himself, his surprise might even be tinged with disapproval.
It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money.
The nearest approach to an English parallel to the Zola case would be furnished if it were proposed to put some savagely controversial and largely repulsive author among the ashes of the greatest English poets.
Its outward signs are repulsive to Europeans and its inner meaning strange, for even those who pray to the Madonna are startled by the idea that the divine nature is essentially feminine.
Nearly seven feet high, it was so horribly repulsive in its perverted likeness to humanity, that Yvette, Dick, and Jules turned away sick with disgust and horror.
Erckmann fearlessly thrust a hand between the bars and scratched the repulsive head while the great ape lay with closed eyes evidently in keen enjoyment of the sensation.
Although I had not the faintest idea either of beauty or of ugliness, her face, her countenance, her tone of voice, her language, everything in that woman was repulsive to me.
I was looking at the repulsive sight in silence, when a great hulking fellow, whose appearance suggested the blacksmith, and his voice the blackguard, came up to me and asked me in bad Italian if I would like to dance.
But in this gross and repulsive shape, it never suggested itself to poor Kennedy's imagination.
For the sake of avoiding the repetition of a long phrase about these repulsive bodies, I shall proceed upon the assumption of perfectly elastic spherical bodies.
To heat a substance means merely to increase the rate of vibration of its particles; thus also, plainly, increasing the repulsive forces and expanding the bulk of the mass as a whole.
If the degree of heat applied be sufficient, the repulsive force may become strong enough quite to overcome the attractive force, and the particles will separate and tend to fly away from one another, the solid then becoming a gas.
At very small distances the particles of matter repel each other; and thisrepulsive force increases beyond all limits as the distances are diminished, and will consequently forever prevent actual contact.
It does not follow, as we formerly supposed, that this is evidence of a repulsive power acting between the molecules.
Mackey in the least, and the idea of being compelled to recognize the man as his father is very repulsive to him.
The meeting with the Confederate surgeon had filled Jack's head once more with visions of army life, and as he continued to fish he forgot all about the unpleasant encounter, although he remembered that repulsive face well.
Though the actual eye of the crocodile does not bear this comparison, the prominent orbits do, especially in the case of the Ghariyál of the Ganges, and form one of the most repulsive features of the reptile's physiognomy.
I see it stated, in a late Report by Mr. Consul Medhurst, that the sugar at this day commonly sold and consumed throughout China is excessively coarse and repulsive in appearance.
The Hospital taught you to neglect these methods; it made experiments on its patients, it cheated the public, it sheltered malignant cruelty in its most repulsive form under illustrious patronage.
Almost every cavern which he entered was tenanted by bats, and he procured several species of these repulsive but interesting animals.
Thus, they are cleanly animals, and are as little repulsive as bats can be expected to be.
At last I could endure no longer to sit supinely by while a fellowman was dragged down to a horrible death by that repulsive reptile.
Here she squatted, a most repulsive and uninteresting queen; though doubtless quite as well assured of her beauty and divine right to rule as the proudest monarch of the outer world.
It would be awful to think of living out the balance of my life without you among these hateful and repulsive creatures.
An enthusiastic botanist and naturalist, as well as an interested ethnologist, this lively observer relieves the monotony of a seemingly easy consulate and repulsive population by watching all the secrets of animated nature around him.
The dramatist who began by writing Titus Andronicus had at least no instinctive distaste to repulsive subjects, no fear of shocking his audience by an exhibition of untamed barbarity.
His looks and person had become even more repulsivethan formerly.
Ivan Dmitritch remembered his own relations, and their faces, at which he had looked impartially in the past, struck him now as repulsive and hateful.
And his wife's face, too, struck him as repulsive and hateful.
