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It sounded absurd, yet it did not repel her: something within her responded to it. [9]
To-day the good woman could not quite make up her mind whether it would be wiser to warn Dada against Marcus and desire her to repel any advances he might attempt to make, or to let bygones be bygones. [10]
The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
If Leonax was what Semestre described him, she would not repel him like the other suitors, whom she had rejected with laughing lips. [10]
These huge brass tubes, mounted on their scaffoldings and pointed skyward from every choice vantage-ground, have the formidable look of artillery, and give the town the general aspect of getting ready to repel a charge of angels. [5]
I imagine that this, by itself, would rather repel him when he saw it in the possession of a woman. [14]
While the Turks therefore prepared to repel a great army from that side, Kisell attacked with his ten thousand men, Ebersbraught sallied out and fell upon the Turks in the trenches, all the enemy on that side were slain or drowned, or put to flight. [4]
If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice, the fault is ours; but this brings you to where you ought to have started--to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle. [7]
If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice, the fault is ours; but this brings you to where you ought to have started to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle. [7]
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. [10]
To favor revolutions, overthrow everything, repel force by force?... [2]
I would divide our forces into small, swift-sailing squadrons, of strength sufficient to repel his cruisers. [9]
Atoms attract each other and atoms repel one another. [2]
Perhaps that was not unattractive in itself, since people who are very happy, and show it, are often most selfish too, and repel where they should attract. [11]
Why should I not care for you, why should I repel you? [10]
His requirements raised mountain after mountain in my path, but the thought of being compelled to scale these heights not only did not repel me, but seemed extremely attractive. [10]
Let your military measures be strong enough to repel the invader and keep the peace, and not so strong as to unnecessarily harass and persecute the people. [7]
Put when the main body of American novelists got fairly ashore and into position the literary militia of the island rose up as one man, with the strength of a thousand, to repel the invaders and sweep them back across the Atlantic. [4]
The Governor, Claib Jackson, issued his proclamation calling out fifty thousand militia to repel the invader. [5]
It is that if it shall become necessary to repel invasion, the President may, without violation of the Constitution, cross the line and invade the territory of another country, and that whether such necessity exists in any given case the President is the sole judge. [7]
At a certain high stage he makes no offensive demonstration, but is alert to repel injury, and of an unconquerable heart. [6]
There is a great deal in medical books which it is very unbecoming to bring before the general public,--a great deal to repel, to disgust, to alarm, to excite unwholesome curiosity. [6]
And in every event I shall, to the extent of my ability, repel force by force. [7]
More than once during the Seigneur's disclosure she had felt that she must cry out and fiercely repel the base insinuations against the man she loved. [11]
In the first days after that ill-starred month, he had gone to her, only to be repelled as a woman can repel whose soul has been shocked, whose self-respect has been shamed. [11]
In the contrary case, Your Majesty, I shall see myself forced to repel an attack that nothing on my part has provoked. [2]
A few hours before he had heard Moses repel similar propositions with harsh decision and crushing reasons; now he had heard them again brought. [10]
And if there be fault in that fact, that fault is primarily yours, and remains so until you show that we repel you by, some wrong principle or practice. [7]
And if there be fault in that fact, that fault is primarily yours, and remains so until you show that we repel you by some wrong principle or practice. [7]
And she fully attained her end, for he drew back with a look of horror, stretched out his arms to repel her, and exclaimed as he saw her uncontrollable laughter, "Back, demon, back! [10]

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