Could I well repulse the delicate attentions of Pauline, who would noiselessly bring me my frugal repast, when she noticed that I had taken nothing for seven or eight hours? "The Magic Skin" by Honore de Balzac

If, at the moment of such a repulse, we had addressed him, and had respectfully offered him our sympathy, he would have struggled with his painful shyness, and would have told us that he felt no resentment against those who rejected his help. "Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France" by Edmund Gosse

After this repulse the Northmen desisted for a time from their attack. "The Dragon and the Raven or, The Days of King Alfred" by G. A. Henty