1 Your commandant is a brave man, and well qualified to repel my assault.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 2 It may be very true, sir; but we are now obliged to repel art by art.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 3 But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 4 In the contrary case, Your Majesty, I shall see myself forced to repel an attack that nothing on my part has provoked.
5 Atoms attract each other and atoms repel one another.
6 Yet gallant Turnus in unfailing confidence will prevent them on the shore and repel their approach to land.
7 Haste away, and carry to Turnus my last message; to take my place in battle, and repel the Trojans from the town.
8 She drew herself into an attitude not of defiance, but of resolution, as one that would avoid provoking assault, yet was resolute to repel it, being offered, to the utmost of her power.
9 I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
10 Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.
11 Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
12 The minister tremulously, but decidedly, repelled the old man's arm.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER 13 I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 14 He simply seemed to be slightly displeased with her for that first midnight conversation, which she had repelled.
15 After drinking a few sips she glanced at him, and by his expression, she saw clearly that he was repelled by her hand, and her gesture, and the sound made by her lips.