1 My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
2 I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.
3 At that distance they accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 4 The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.
5 Enough, that I saw my own feelings reflected in Herbert's face, and not least among them, my repugnance towards the man who had done so much for me.
6 And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 7 Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors.
8 They were no sooner gone, than Monks, who appeared to entertain an invincible repugnance to being left alone, called to a boy who had been hidden somewhere below.
9 Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no ill-will.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding 10 Then I saw the horror and repugnance of his face, and all of a sudden I let him go.
11 But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial.
12 Lily knew people who "lived like pigs," and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence.
13 The little flame under his hand cast a deeper crimson on his puffing face, and Lily averted her eyes with a momentary feeling of repugnance.
14 His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.
15 The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with repugnance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE