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So saying, he managed to get the end of his fingers on to her palm, and there it remained unrepulsed.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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Uninvited, therefore, but unrepulsed, Hymen approached our heroine in the form of Casimir Dudevant, the illegitimate, but acknowledged son and heir of Colonel Dudevant, an officer of good standing and reasonable fortune.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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Inch by inch he sidled nearer, and unrepulsed grew bolder until he finally subsided with his head across her knees, whining his satisfaction.
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He set the desire down to the unrepulsed attack of the
The Philanderers 1906
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So saying, he managed to get the end of his fingers on to her palm, and there it remained unrepulsed.
Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1848
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She was at that time nearly fifteen, and the marked devotion which Cumberland (who during his absence had greatly improved both in manner and appearance) now paid her, flattered and pleased her; and, partly for this reason, partly because she had already learned to dread his outbreaks of temper, and was unwilling to do anything which might provoke one of them, she allowed him to continue his attentions unrepulsed.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835
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If there are still political independents left unrepulsed by the GOP, this ought to do it.
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