A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

-Constable,John
  In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962^70).

What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion?†You ought to know, that as both always wear off,'tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Mrs Malaprop to Lydia.The Rivals, act1, sc.2.

   Those grave fellows are my aversion who sift everything with the utmost nicety, and find the malignity of a lie in a piece of humour, pushed a little beyond exact truth.

-Steele, Sir Richard
  In the Guardian, no.42, 29 Apr.