This was a gibe made rather for the antithesis than its accuracy, for even Boone's enemies owned that he was a good neighbor, and, where his prejudices were not in question, a man with few distinctly repellent traits.

To our ordinary space-thought, men are isolated, distinct, each "an infinitely repellent particle," but we conceive of space too narrowly.

He, in a word, was the subtle acid holding in chemical combination many mutually repellent substances.

There are innumerable natural objects far more hideous and outwardly repellent, but which yet do not possess this nauseating quality.

The son, though of deep inner affections, and even hungering for good-will if it would come without his help, was on the surface incomparably colder, harsher, and thornier than his father, with all the socially repellent traits of the race and none of the softer ones.

The circles of black rocks above the tops of the highest trees, though indescribably beautiful, were strangely repellent in their weird conformation.

In such cases the new love is no sooner found than the old becomes grievous, a burden; by a malignant witchcraft the old charms have grown veritably repellent, and "all the heaven that was" irretrievably disenchanted.