feel repugnance
Example Sentences
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“I feel repugnance for the critic John Simon, who made it a specialty to attack the way actors look,” he writes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2011
The Emperor would feel repugnance to any course which should bind him to oppose in arms the wishes of Germany.
From Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 by Jones, Edgar R. (Edgar Rees), Sir
From this, the true idea, will he not early feel repugnance at giving way to excessive passion, which he regards as a disease?
From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules
The fear that Ourson would feel repugnance towards her made her heart tremble; but this thought, which was wholly personal, was very fleeting—it could not triumph over her devoted tenderness.
From Old French Fairy Tales by Ségur, Sophie, comtesse de
How is it that, in certain moods of mind, the vices we are conversant with assume a double coarseness, and that we feel repugnance to what daily habit had seemed to have inured us?
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
