What is "repulse"

Usage examples of "repulse".

She said yes, and instead of repulsing my caresses she proceeded to accompany my actions with the recital of erotic verses.

We surely did not need to prove once more what had already been so amply proved, that bravery can be of no avail against concealed riflemen well entrenched, and that the more hardy is the attack the heavier must be the repulse.

According to the Japanese announcer, nine of the attacking planes were shot down and the rest repulsed by heavy antiaircraft fire.

Chang, the successor, though not, of course, the immediate successor, of Li-Sieh-tai, who was concerned in the murder of Margary and the repulse of the expedition under Colonel Horace Browne in 1875.

The folly of it was seen in the murder of Margary and the repulse of Colonel Horace Browne, whose expedition was driven back at Tsurai within sight of Manyuen.

Lady Trent had spoken more truly than she knew, and would have been as much surprised as dismayed to have learnt that her provoking niece, having repulsed two very eligible suitors, had discovered that no less a personage than the Nonesuch would do for her.

His overpainted face and exaggerated mode of dress only served to repulse her although his conversation was entertaining enough for a short period.

Biscarrat, repulsed by his friends, not able to accompany them, without passing in the eyes of Porthos and Aramis for a traitor and a perjurer, with painfully attentive ear and still supplicating hands leaned against the rough side of a rock which he thought must be exposed to the fire of the musketeers.

The foot began the attack too precipitately, and were at first repulsed, but they soon recovered themselves.

She was neither repulsed by his misshapen body and ugly scars nor in awe of his power and position.

Through the long day the fight maintained its equilibrium along the summit of the ridge, swaying a little that way or this, but never amounting to a repulse of the stormers or to a rout of the defenders.

Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed, And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness.

Henri had suggested bribery as a way to gain favors, but such unethical behavior repulsed her.

For the world, yes even for us in the nineteenth century, and for the great undiscovered continents beyond the sea, the repulse of the squalid and unprogressive Turanian from the seats of the old historic civilisation, was essential to the preservation of whatever makes human life worth living.

I looked at TJ Sterling sitting across from me with his barroom tan and canary-feather grin, but instead of feeling angry and repulsed, I was afraid.