40 adjectives to describe revulsion

He felt a sudden revulsion for the vile stuff.

Severe commercial revulsions abroad have always heretofore operated to depress and often to affect disastrously almost every branch of American industry.

At the same instant I experienced a sharp interior revulsion of some sort, most briefly momentary, but of a character that shook me from head to toe.

Yet, when the swift revulsion such knowledge brought with it made her ready to dismiss him at once, thought of Deanie's wasted little countenance, with the red burning high on the sharp, unchildish cheekbone, stayed her.

A tremendous revulsion of feeling set in and overpowered him.

When Congress met in December last the business of the country had just been crushed by one of those periodical revulsions which are the inevitable consequence of our unsound and extravagant system of bank credits and inflated currency.

Meanwhile, an extraordinary revulsion of feeling had taken place at Philadelphia.

The late disastrous monetary revulsion may have one good effect should it cause both the Government and the people to return to the practice of a wise and judicious economy both in public and private expenditures.

It portrays but little perceptible movement, little in the way of violent revulsion and conflict; the spiritual growth which it registers is mostly underground, a strengthening and spreading of the roots.

For the moment he was exalted by this instant revulsion against anything calculating in his passion.

"I looked at him with disgust and an instantaneous revulsion of feeling.

At the same instant I experienced a sharp interior revulsion of some sort, most briefly momentary, but of a character that shook me from head to toe.

The liability to such lamentable revulsions is plainly due to some insufficiency in the religion to meet all the wants of human nature.

His feeling which had held him on the desert when he should have gone home, that feeling of literal revulsion toward his inheritance, was a thing born in him which had grown under her caresses and her training.

I protest that so awful was the transition from the detestable crocodile, and the other unutterable monsters and abortions of my dreams, to the sight of innocent human natures and of infancy that in the mighty and sudden revulsion of mind I wept, and could not forbear it, as I kissed their faces.

Once, seeing a painted, over-dressed or rather under-dressed, girl in the arms of a pasty-faced, protruding-eyed roué, both obviously under the spell of too much liquid inspiration, Ted suffered a momentary revulsion and qualm of conscience.

and timidity overcome, dazzled him for a momentcaused a revulsion in him which he half recognized as the beginning of a dangerous passion.

There was a visible revulsion in the larger part of the audience as the tale went on; and when the lawyer wound up with the story of Mrs. Sprague's baffled efforts in Washington to have her boy brought North, there was an outburst of applause and a faint cheer from the younger men for "glorious old Jack.

And then very quietly he spoke, and she experienced an odd revulsion of feeling that was almost disappointment.

" In the overwhelming revulsion of feeling brought about by the actual sight of Jones, Kate stood, interdicted, in the corridor, uncertain what to do.

There was no disturbance occasioned by thinking of the forthcoming revulsion of the mind the moment before the chronograph was stopped.

If they do not choose to awaken themselves from within, all that is left for us is to hope that they may be awakened from without, or by some radical revulsion in public taste be shown their own real value and durability, and compelled to be true and manly under pain of being laughed at and forgotten.

But political incompetency is not a reason sufficiently weighty in itself to account for the remarkable revulsion of public feeling against the revolutionary party.

Severe commercial revulsions abroad have always heretofore operated to depress and often to affect disastrously almost every branch of American industry.

" These reports hoodwinked the ignorant natives for a little while, but when the stream of haggard soldiers, wounded and exhausted, began pouring back from the south, they guessed what had happened, and a fierce revulsion against the Germano-Turkish régime set in.

40 adjectives to describe  revulsion