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Even if he were to say that it was a new beginning for himself and, unlike other nocturnal prowlers, that he was now a nascent creature capable of appreciating the simple pleasures of the day in a more abstemious lifestyle, there was the immediate past to repugn the assertion.

An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

Thais with a disposition and willingness to scrutinize their own cultural suppositions were rare but for those who were so inclined to repugn family and Buddha, if only in outward aloofness and tacit pondering, little remained sacrosanct from intellectual dissection except for issues in reference to the king, for to cease to revere him would make one something other than Thai.

An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

If he were to work for a month in a factory like a dirt poor laborer (he was indeed swarthy as most Thai laborers and once of their class), return to the sidewalk restaurants which were his inception and, he posited, probably were his true destiny had he not been so insolent to repugn them, or even to return to Silpakorn

An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

A flight into the World Trade Center towers of oneself might be in part a flight down to a sordid hell but he, an artist, although a retired one, would hardly repugn it if it were.

An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

It was true that in a man there was self-awareness more keen than in other animals, but from it one could not help analyzing his own insignificance which he would then have to repugn by absconding more fully in the professional and personal domains.

An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

To use his own words: “This I most humbly require and desire of you all, even for his sake who is the God of us all, that I be not compelled to the thing which my conscience doth repugn or strive against.

V. 1757, 1758 1909

What then, if sense and imagination repugn to discourse and reason, affirming that universality to be nothing which reason thinketh herself to see?

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

For it is a sin to withstand and to repugn against his Lord like the sin of idolatry.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

IT was his own; and, as regards the main purpose of Montaigne's essay, which was to show that civilisation was no unmixed gain as contrasted with some forms of barbarism, the author of CYMBELINE was hardly the man to repugn it, even if he amused himself by putting forward Caliban [196] as the real "cannibal," in contrast to Montaigne's.

Montaigne and Shakspere 1894

To use his own words: “This I most humbly require and desire of you all, even for his sake who is the God of us all, that I be not compelled to the thing which my conscience doth repugn or strive against.”

The Journal of John Woolman Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1871