Crossword-Solution: AVERSION 8 letters, 83 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

After a short time she returned, and when he inquired how she had got on and how the servants had treated her, she replied, “The herdsmen and shepherds cast on me looks of aversion.” He said, “O Wife, if you were disliked by those who go out early in the morning with their flocks and return late in the evening, what must have been felt towards you by those with whom you passed the whole day!” Straws show how the wind blows.

But why should such a fair and dutiful girl have such an aversion to her father’s sex?” “Go on your way, please.” “What, Beauty, and drag you after me? Do but look; I never saw such a tangle!” “Oh, ’tis shameful of you; you have been making it worse on purpose to keep me here—you have!” “Indeed, I don’t think so,” said the sergeant, with a merry twinkle.

What if with like aversion I reject Riches and realms! Yet not for that a crown, Golden in shew, is but a wreath of thorns, Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights, 460 To him who wears the regal diadem, When on his shoulders each man’s burden lies; For therein stands the office of a king, His honour, virtue, merit, and chief praise, That for the public all this weight he bears.

Sid noticed that Tom never was coroner at one of these inquiries, though it had been his habit to take the lead in all new enterprises; he noticed, too, that Tom never acted as a witness—and that was strange; and Sid did not overlook the fact that Tom even showed a marked aversion to these inquests, and always avoided them when he could.

The aversion (as it might justly be called) with which many persons regarded him was partly the result of his own character and deportment, and partly an inheritance.