"Repugnantly" Quotes from Famous Books
... desiring to sell some of his western lands, he said: "Besides these I have another motive which makes me earnestly wish for these things—it is indeed more powerful than all the rest—namely to liberate a certain species of property which I possess very repugnantly to my own feelings; but which imperious necessity compels, and until I can substitute some other expedient, by which expenses, not in my power to avoid (however well I may be disposed to do ... — George Washington: Farmer • Paul Leland Haworth |