1. | A wave of revulsion swept over me. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
2. | I had a violent revulsion of feeling. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
3. | On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. - from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
4. | He had naturally repressed much, and some revulsion might have been expected in him when the occasion for repression was gone. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
5. | There was evidently coming over him that revulsion that would make him look upon death as the goal of his desires, as happiness. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
6. | He walked up one street, and down another, until exercise had abated the first passion of his grief and then the revulsion of feeling made him thirsty. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
7. | I suddenly thought that a renewal of action might bring about a revulsion of feeling, and began vigorous movements. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
8. | "He is old and feeble, and I dare to condemn him" she thought at such moments, with a feeling of revulsion against herself. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
9. | Then his admirable nature underwent a complete and sudden revulsion he arose, rushed out of the room and to the stairs, exclaiming energetically, "Julie, Julie--Emmanuel, Emmanuel. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |