Significados de first repulse en inglés

Thus far his warriors had been everywhere victorious, and this was their first repulse.

I determined to try my utmost powers of persuasion; I resolved not to be beaten at the first repulse.

The man pushed his way in angrily, a big, self-assertive fellow; he was evidently smarting from his first repulse.

Notwithstanding his first repulse, he did not fully understand that the new boy was a much more formidable opponent than he anticipated.

His eyes all over the page caught the note of it for her beginning of the battle and despair at the first repulse.

She knew very well that her mother would not take her first repulse easily; and waited in anxiety for the next clash of swords.

After their first repulses the enemy always set the house on fire.

The foot began the attack too precipitately, and were at first repulsed, but they soon recovered themselves.

His cavalry at first repulsed Sumter's advance, but were driven in by the state troops under Col. Hampton.

This custom commemorated the service rendered by the sex in the battle wherein Cyrus first repulsed the forces of Astyages.

They first repulsed the Indians, and then demanded from the governor a commission for Bacon as commander-in-chief of the Virginia military.