Casaubon had so severely repulsed Dorothea's strong feeling about his claims on the family property, by her being convinced that she was in the right and her husband in the wrong, but that she was helpless.
But she hesitated, fearing to offend him by obtruding herself; for her ardor, continually repulsed, served, with her intense memory, to heighten her dread, as thwarted energy subsides into a shudder; and she wandered slowly round the nearer clumps of trees until she saw him advancing.
Tom tried again, with soothing words in his mouth, and was repulsed again.
Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her.
Some Korean netizens seemed focused on the meal's packaging, claiming they were repulsed by the Chinese characters printed on it, while others busied themselves emphasizing that the "stirred rice dish" is a Korean dish.
Passengers booked on a Sriwijaya Air flight from Bengkulu province in Sumatra to Jakarta last Monday complained to staff after smelling the fruit and refused to get on the plane -- repulsed by the pungent payload and concerned about the extra weight on board.
I'm repulsed at the idea of re-wearing a bra - imagine all the sweat.
Most of us are repulsed by hairballs, but not Ryo Yamazaki, a Japanese photographer who lives in Tokyo.
But Frumtje was repulsed by his misshapen appearance.
News of this at length came to the king, who was very angry, and ordered a captain to march out with his troop, and drive this disturber of the peace out of the town, but the man with knapsack soon got a greater body of men together, who repulsed the captain and his men, so that they were forced to retire with bloody noses.
