The floor of the restaurant was a patternless mosaic of small hexagonal tiles, bare in warm weather, in the winter covered by a thick but well-worn Brussels carpet of peculiarly repulsive design.

The Saint as he is sketched is sometimes a positively repulsive beingarrogant, venomous, and cruel; he demands two eyes or more for one, and, pucklike, fairly revels in mischief!

Why have you looked that way at me?" "I don't speak to folks that don't speak to me," said Dickie, lifting the wafer as though its extreme lightness was faintly repulsive to him.

The thin lips, the everlasting smile, the quick, suspicious glance were fearfully repulsive.

As she stood there in the modest naturalness of her winsome beautyinnocent and pure as the flowers that formed the screen behind her; hired to amuse the worthy friends and guests of that hideously repulsive devotee of lust and licentiousness who, from his wheeled chair, was glaring at her with eyes that burned insanelyshe seemed, as indeed she was, a spirit from another world.

A poor crippled old man, lying in the corner of the piazza, unable even to crawl towards me, had uttered this word of consolation, and by his side (apparently too idiotic, as he was too impotent, to move,) sat a young woman, the expression of whose face was the most suffering and at the same time the most horribly repulsive I ever saw.

And neither his undiscerning credulity nor his inexpressibly repulsive and barely intelligible stylewhich seems like of a man taking notes, and very economical of paperis of a kind to give me a high opinion of his power of independent thought.

Taking him all in all, he is so intensely repulsive to mewith his eyeglass, oblique eyes, long legs, and sallow, hairless facethat

Some of them are grand, others very lovely, and some, of course, to my mind considerably repulsive.

Death is not one whom "a limner would love to paint or a lady to look upon"; but Holbein has given a strange and fascinating interest to the figure, which in all other hands is merely repulsive.

In the course of my reading I had become familiar with the idea of Avatâras in Eastern creeds, and I saw that the incarnate God was put forward as a fact by all ancient religions, and thus the way was paved for challenging the especially Christian teaching, when the doctrines morally repulsive were cleared away.

" "Then again," replied Edward, "as these are united under common laws and customs, so there are intermediate members in our chemical world which will combine elements that are mutually repulsive.

The Catholic of the 16th century was apt to tell you that he could not sit at table with a heretic because the latter carried with him a distinctive and overpoweringly repulsive odour.

Fear, in Shakspereas in the great murder scene in Macbethis a pure passion; but in Webster it is mingled with something physically repulsive.

To me, sir, the past is intolerably repulsive; one boundless, barren, and hideous Golgotha of dead hopes and murdered opportunities; the future, still blacker and more furious, peopled with dreadful features of horror and menace, and losing itself in utter darkness.

His spirit of intolerance towards those who did not draw in his traces, and his adulation of those who surrendered themselves to his guidance, have always been exceedingly repulsive to me, weaknesses which marred the beauty and symmetry of his character, and prevented its symmetrical development, but nevertheless I know the stern principle which is the basis of his action.