repulse
Definition: To drive back, repel
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - By Mark Twain, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
...We suffered repulse after repulse, but Joan was here and there and everywhere encouraging the men, and she kept them to their work ....
Adam Bede - By George Eliot, Laura Johnson Wylie
...The news that `` Bony " was come back from Egypt was comparatively insipid, and the repulse of the French in Italy was nothing to Mrs. Poyser 's repulse of the old Squire ....
Weir of Hermiston - By Robert Louis Stevenson
...No, no, " said the old man, " do n't repulse your father, Dick, when he has come here to save you ....
True to the Old Flag - By George Alfred Henty, Gordon Browne
...It had been determined to allow the colonists to land without resistance, as the commander of the fort felt no doubt of his ability, with the assistance of his Indian allies, to repulse their attack ....
Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer - By John M. Palmer
...I have already said that the last operation of the left arm of the army, was the repulse of the enemy, which attempted to turn that flank, and that then everything seemed to promise the final repulse and defeat of Bragg 's army, and a rapid pursuit of his retreating forces ....
Treasure Island - By Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Rhead
...I had quite made up my mind that the mutineers, after their repulse of the morning, had nothing nearer their hearts than to up anchor and away to sea; this, I thought, it would be a fine thing to prevent; and now that I had seen how they left their watchmen unprovided with a boat, I thought it might be done with little risk ....
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...-- when a long way must yet be measured by my weary, trembling limbs, before I could reach human habitation; when cold charity must be entreated before I could get a lodging : reluctant sympathy importuned, almost certain repulse incurred, before my tale could be listened to, or one of my wants relieved !...
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...He was likewise, no doubt, intensely mortified by his repulse, and deeply offended at the conduct of Miss Murray throughout ....
Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...I would have taken him with me to see the patient, only I thought that after his last repulse he might not care to go again ....
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...At this slight repulse the assailants instantly withdrew, and gradually the place became as still as before the sudden tumult ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...the heart to see Edmund 's arrangements, was trying by everything in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr Crawford, and avoid both his looks and enquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both . "...
War and Peace - By Leo Tolstoy
...In the opposite case, your majesty, I shall be compelled to repulse an attack so wholly unprovoked by me ....
White Fang - By Jack London
...After each repulse, when the _ pld, w # -RRB- lf sheered abruptly away from the sharp-toothed object of his desire, he shouldered against a young three-year-old that ran on his blind right side ....
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - By Mark Twain
...The woman crept near and looked on, eagerly, lovingly, but timorously--like one who fears a repulse; indeed, she tried furtively to touch the man 's forehead, and jumped...