The De Grafs lived en suite at the hotel, for Beth had determined to surround her Sybaritic mother with all attainable luxury, since the child frequently reproached herself with feeling a distinct repulsion for the poor woman.

" Around this central core gather all the elements vibrating in the three higher notes of their octave as gases, producing repulsion which increases by 1.6 for each doubled time.

They squirmed and wriggled, contorted and crackled like giant thousand-legs, and almost excited in me a repulsion.

" I had quite as lief, in my present state of mind, touch a yard-long wriggling ground-worm, or a fat wood-louse, as paper that his fingers have pressed; but I overcome my repulsion, and unfold the note.

They had openly confessed the repulsion they felt for each other, and reciprocally made no secret of the fact that they had been driven into this union against their own wishes.

Whether it was that the descending twilight dispelled the painful constraint under which Marston had seemed to labor, or that some more purely spiritual and genial influence had gradually dissipated the repulsion and distrust with which, at first, he had shrunk from a renewal of intercourse with Dr. Danvers, he suddenly accosted him thus.

And when to the fatigue and strain of the day is addedas is still quite often the caseblank though uneasy ignorance as to what marriage involves, or the thunderbolt of knowledge (sic) launched by the bride's mother the night before, or the morning of the day itself, it would be difficult with the utmost deliberation and skill better to ensure absolute repulsion and horror on the part of the bride.

The attraction of the sun exactly equals the repulsion created by the motion; more accurately, the speed created by the repulsion.

He would send men to death with a jest, and the cold-blooded, calculating, remorseless infamy of his entire career excites a repulsion which we feel for no other great figure in history, not even for the first Napoleon.

She always felt the sensation coming upon her after a few moments, and when it had actually come she could hardly hide her repulsion till she felt, as to-day, that she must run from him, without the least consideration of pride or dignity.

He might be a very respectable man, but somehow, Andy did not know why, there was something in his manner which inspired a little repulsion.

I needed a repulsion which would act like gravitation through an indefinite distance and in a voidact upon a remote fulcrum, such as might be the Earth in a voyage to the Moon, or the Sun in a more distant journey.

He raises neither repulsion nor desire, but displays with the calm strength of art the empire of the mundane spirit.

He feels for the propaganda of that sect the repulsion that must be felt by every sane and liberal-minded man: Wretched, choleric Pangermans, exasperated and unbalanced, brothers of all the exasperated, wretched windbags whose tirades, in all countries, answer to yours, and whom you are wrong to count your enemies!

Her face showed her repulsion.

Blanche felt a touch of shuddering repulsion from herself, as well as from Varick, as she now remembered how sincerely she had rejoiced when, reading between the lines of his letter, she had guessed that he was marrying an unattractive woman for her money.

The lowered brow signifies retention, repulsion: It is the signification of a closed door.

If her heart had been free, and she could have loved him, she might have hoped, though it would have been a wild and forlorn hope; but as it was, she had never entirely surmounted a repulsion from him, as something strange and unnatural, a feeling involving fear, though here he was her only hope and protector, and an utter uncertainty as to what he might do.

The instruments of Man's ascent to divinity may arouse his instinctive repulsions, dislikes, and destructive passions.

Thus I could turn the repulsion upon the resistant body (sun or planet), and so propel the vessel in any direction I pleased.

At first Faraday attributed the repulsion of diamagnetic substances to a polarity, separate and distinct from ordinary magnetic polarity, for which he proposed the name, diamagnetic polarity.

Both brow and hand concentric denote repulsion or retention; this is always the case with a door.

"It is not force of intellect," as George Eliot has said, "which causes ready repulsion from the aberration and eccentricities of greatness, any more than it is force of vision that causes the eye to explore the warts in a face bright with human expression; it is simply the negation of high sensibilities.