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Sentences ending with repulsive

He had come to that age when the mind is surprised to find that the things that once charmed charm less, and the things once hated are less acutely repulsive. [11]
Nearly everything about them, including their voice, is repulsive. [4]
It was Sir Seitz Siebenburg, "the Mustache," whose officious homage, at first amusing, had long since become repulsive. [10]
True, I have never had any serious illness--" "This is my first one too," replied Henrica, "but I know now what it is to be compelled to submit to everything we don't like, and feel with two-fold keenness everything that is repulsive. [10]
And when the meal was ready she strove to eat, though food had become repulsive. [9]
Scars adorn a man; on a woman they are ugly and repulsive. [10]
She felt in herself a satiety, a fatigue, in which his good looks, his invented airs and poses, his real trouble, were all alike repulsive. [8]
Our ordinary mental food has become distasteful, and what would have been intellectual luxuries at other times, are now absolutely repulsive. [6]
The legs and arms were curiously turned in spirals, the suggestions of which were half pleasing and half repulsive. [6]
The church has a hundred and seventy pillars in it, each a single piece, and all of costly marbles of various kinds, but they came from ancient temples at Baalbec, Heliopolis, Athens and Ephesus, and are battered, ugly and repulsive. [5]

Short sentences using repulsive

Meat is repulsive to him. [10]

More example sentences with the word repulsive in them

Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
We saw only wig-making establishments, with shocks of dead and repulsive hair bound upon the heads of painted waxen brigands who stared out from glass boxes upon the passer-by with their stony eyes and scared him with the ghostly white of their countenances. [5]
The flaxen hair, which bristled around his head and hung over his broad, ugly face, gave him so unkempt and imbecile an appearance that it was repulsive to the almoner, and he harshly asked where he had been loitering. [10]
Now, I thought, when this horrible woman represented the transformation into the spider with such repulsive accuracy, Hermon will believe that this is the true, and therefore the right, ideal; nay, I was deceived myself while gazing. [10]
That is--that is what you Greeks call the most repulsive of creatures--the spider. [10]
The further we went the hotter the sun got, and the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became. [5]
Chief among the waverers were those who had come to America with visions of a fortune, who had practised a repulsive thrift in order to acquire real estate, who carried in their pockets dog-eared bank books recording payments already made. [9]
And so of various odors, which are pleasing to some persons and repulsive to others. [6]
Pleasure became her torment, for the sweetest wine is repulsive when it has been tasted by impure lips. [10]
All this had to pass away in a little time; I had chosen my profession, and must meet its painful and repulsive aspects until they lost their power over my sensibilities. [6]
It is hard to forget repulsive things. [5]
It was repulsive to endow this explanation of an unfortunate error with a captivating aspect by any theatrical adornment. [10]
We knew that the body and the clothing were there for identification by friends, but still we wondered if anybody could love that repulsive object or grieve for its loss. [5]
Now I will tell you why I remain chafing here in a bloodless tranquillity which my reputation teaches you is repulsive to my nature. [5]
But it was some moments before she had the fortitude to distinguish one form from another; they melted before her reluctant eyes into one repulsive mass. [10]
You, every one, shall no longer have a right to think me capable of things which are as repulsive to my nature as to yours. [10]
The idea of sending Mr. Howells, with his sensitive nature, upon such a repulsive er--" "Oh, Howells won't mind it! [5]
It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. [5]
It took the romance all out of the campaign, and turned our dreams of glory into a repulsive nightmare. [5]
The face was repulsive in its combination of surly smugness, as shown by the long upper lip, by a repellent darkness round the small, furtive eyes, by a hardness in the huge, bearded jaw, and by a mouth of primary animalism. [11]
Certainly what they propose to you is repulsive enough, but submit to it; it is to be hoped it will not be for long. [10]
There were three professional gamblers on board--rough, repulsive fellows. [5]
There was nothing physically repulsive in it; it was the wild, strong life of conquering man, of which he had due share. [11]
You look straight onwards as I do, but in you each idea is transfigured, for in your soul invisible shaping powers are at work, which set the crooked straight, clothe the commonplace with charm, the repulsive with beauty. [10]
More than half of them are stripped of honor and dignity on your altar of vengeance, and thrust into the arms of repulsive avarice. [10]
She could see now (on Sundays) that her husband was becoming a bloated and repulsive Thing. [5]
I appeared to myself as repulsive as a hideous ape when at the great baths by the Gate of the Sun I saw the youths and men with beautifully arranged and scented hair and smooth limbs that shone with cleanliness and purification. [10]
What repulsive exhibitions met the eye! [10]
Genessaret under these lustrous stars has nothing repulsive about it. [5]
He saw to it that the meat was no longer a hateful, repulsive mass, two-thirds bone and gristle, and before it came into the cook's hands capable of being polished like mahogany. [11]
The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth--science--which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth. [2]
Julie saw Boris' indecision, and sometimes the thought occurred to her that she was repulsive to him, but her feminine self-deception immediately supplied her with consolation, and she told herself that he was only shy from love. [2]
The subject which in the hands of the scientific student is handled decorously,--reverently, we might almost say,--becomes repulsive, shameful, and debasing in the unscrupulous manipulations of the low-bred man of letters. [6]
Or is it, in fact, more artistic to ignore all these, and paint only the feeble and the repulsive in our social state? [4]
No--no, the bare idea of amusement is repulsive to my feelings: Let us talk of death and funerals. [5]
I see that I am repulsive to him, especially when I am in this condition. [2]
Pierre without greeting his wife whom he had not seen since his return--at that moment she was more repulsive to him than ever--entered the drawing room and seeing Anatole went up to him. [2]
With fierce resentment he grasped her hand, which lay on the rope, pressed it violently in his strong clasp, and exclaimed, "Stop, mad woman, that I may not be forced to think of you as a poisonous serpent and repulsive spider! [10]
On the ship he asked the Bithynian whether his burned face had become presentable again, and no longer made a repulsive impression. [10]
This would presently fret off the skin, and make the flesh raw and angry-looking; blood was then rubbed upon the limb, which, being fully dried, took on a dark and repulsive colour. [5]
Surrounded by the fragrance of the dried grasses, he soon fell asleep, and in a dream saw amidst various confused and repulsive shapes, first his father with a bleeding wound in his broad chest, and then the doctor, dancing with old Rahel. [10]
He had a face of natural ugliness made almost repulsive by marks of smallpox. [11]
That which is evil can never more be fair, and however lovely the face there may look to you, it looks quite as repulsive to me when I reflect that it probably smiled still more fascinatingly on some strolling beggar. [10]
How repulsive these envious, hypocritical people were! [10]
He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl. [12]
Drawing, perpetual drawing, became burdensome, repulsive, hateful; but with palette and brush in his hand he could not fail to become an artist, perhaps an artist like Titian. [10]
They were not barren and repulsive, but clothed in green, and restful and pleasant to the eye. [5]
He was more attractively repulsive than the sea-lion. [4]
The first glance at the pillow showed me repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows with long, quivering antennae and fiery, malignant eyes. [5]
To-morrow I will ask you to spare me an hour when I can communicate to your majesty something concerning him, but which is too repulsive and sad to be suitable for telling in an evening devoted to enjoyment. [10]
But of course as soon as his mind cleared and these diseased imaginings passed away, he shuddered at the repulsive thought, and earnestly prayed that it might visit him no more. [5]
Let us go after him, and finish off the business at once," said the broad-shouldered villain in a hoarse whisper that broke down every now and then, and which seemed to Klea even more repulsive than the monster's face. [10]
That blinking was a repulsive characteristic; it was like serpents gulping live things. [11]
I picked up a Rebel canteen, and one of our own,--but there was something repulsive about the trodden and stained relics of the stale battle-field. [6]
It was such a dreary, repulsive, horrible solitude! [5]
At first the "beggar's fare" seemed repulsive, but he soon felt that it was benefiting him after the riotous life of the last few months. [10]

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