aversion

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C——'s aversion to undertake anything where he was not entirely his own master was unconquerable.

If he had not secretly known that aversion, he would not have been able to destroy the globe and the treasures piled about it.

STAR BORNANDRE NORTON

Julia, dear girl, tells me you have as much of an aversion to parties as Charles and I have.

NARCISSUSEVELYN SCOTT

By degrees they excited a dislike in Master Robert, that in time was fixed into habit, and fell little short of aversion.

He took an aversion to that lady, and would have her put to death.

For the first time in her life, she felt an aversion to him.

For once, Zack had not exaggerated in saying that his aversion to employment in a counting-house amounted to absolute horror.

HIDE AND SEEKWILKIE COLLINS

Dorothy felt an aversion to Storri, and she could not have told you why.

THE PRESIDENTALFRED HENRY LEWIS

With whatever solemnity contemplated, it excited on her own account no aversion or inquietude.

We went down into the crypt, all of us except Angela, who still has an aversion to underground resorts.

IN CHTEAU LANDANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON

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