It was expected that the strange monster from the dim, damp jungles of Darkest Africa would spring upon her, but he did nothing of the kind; he rushed to the back of his cage, and cowered down, burying his face in the straw.
A crowd had now collected, and when Madame Marve dragged her husband into the tent all attention was turned upon Nickie, who cowered against the tree, his mind busy on a way out of the peculiarly unpleasant situation.
Others ran up the mountain-side, and cowered in the brush like quail.
The curtain of darkness closed heavier than velvet, and the men cowered in their tracks, shielding themselves behind the nearest objects or behind one another's bodies, waiting for the sky to vomit over them its rain of missiles.
For one instant Gwendolen coweredagainst her father's knees.
I cannot endure--" He cowered again, striking himself into temporary blindness with one powerful fist.
He cowered back, and pressed his eyes with one trembling hand.
Her lips turned blue and she cowered back against the side of the cabin, holding her shawl like a shield before her bosom.
He hovered about the stove, feeding it twisted bundles of hay till he grew yellow with the tanning effect of the smoke, while Blanche cowered in her chair, petulant and ungenerous.
She cowered close to the window, nursing Eblana's head in her lap with furtive pats, for that pampered beast was importunate in his demonstrative caresses, and whined a protest against neglect.
Sara screened her face with her hand and cowered over her saddle-bow, for a dearly loved voice had been wont to sing that song.
Now she was suddenly afraid, and she cowered closer against Sophy Grierson, while she wondered what sort of a greeting she would get when Ripple was reached.
Galena stamped with impatience, and turned upon the unfortunate Irishman with so much wrath that he fairly coweredbefore her.
Fureeda cowered to the ground as the Sultaun started up, his eyes glaring, and his hands clenched and thrust out before him, as he looked wildly around.
There was an awful din without; the roar of cannon, the incessant rattle of musketry, the hissing sound of shells as they descended and burst, came full on the ears of the guilty pair, and the old woman cowered to the ground in fright.
But, ever, Lad would swoop down upon the marauder, as Lady cowered whimperingly back on her haunches; and would harry the indignant cat up the nearest tree; herding her there until Lady had licked the dish clean.
But she cowered flat to the floor; and trembled as if in a hard chill.
He could hardly speak for laughing; but Aminocles cowered down upon the deck, and covered his head with his loose tunic, the other six Phocians scampering off in dismay to secrete themselves in the hold.
They longed to leap on it, to rend its gaunt limbs apart, to tear its quivering flesh; but there was the big man with his murderous whip, and they cowered before him.
The forests shrieked in fear; the creatures of the Wild cowered in their lairs, but the solitary man stumbled on and on.
Deep as he could squeeze himself back into the shadow, the Major cowered and watched them.
The two ladies cowered behind a pedestal supporting the Farnese Hercules.
Rose cowered from the cold malice in the legless man's voice, and from the unearthly subdued excitement in his eyes.
Then the pair cowered as if they expected to be struck, and after a long while the blond one said: "It ain't him.
Beauty Smith cowered down in anticipation of the blow.
Grey Beaver clouted White Fang alongside the head, so that he cowered down close to the earth in respectful obedience.
They loomed ominously above him; and when the breeze stirred them into huge movements, he cowered down in fear, keeping his eyes warily upon them, and prepared to spring away if they attempted to precipitate themselves upon him.
As it was, he cowereddown in a paralysis of fear, already half proffering the submission that his kind had proffered from the first time a wolf came in to sit by man's fire and be made warm.
He dared not, or could not stand before her: he writhed and cowered and recoiled all down the room, while she marched upon him.
She cowered the picture of sorrow and tongue-tied guilt.
At this word, which in its coarsest form she had never heard from those high-born lips till then, Rose cowered like a hare.
He flung himself into the trench, cowered in its deepest part, made not the slightest attempt to look over the parapet, much less to use his rifle.
With nose close to the ground, powerful jaws dropping and parched tongue hanging out of its mouth, it was heading straight for the clump of gorse where cowered the hunted man.
But Beau Brocade had crept underneath a heavy clump of gorse and bramble, and with his finger on the trigger of his weapon he cowered there, ready for action, his eyes fixed upon the blackness before him.
Her spirit wholly broken by the agony of this cruel thought, she cowered on the step of the carriage, her head buried in her hands, in a passion of heart-broken tears.
Willie cowered on his stool by the side of the fire, eyeing his sister from time to time, and sorry and oppressed, he knew not why, by the sight of her grave, almost stern face.
Murray, Pitt's contemporary and his equal in sheer ability, cowered before him; cowered with loathing, but cowered.
He cowered at my feet, and was still as a lamb from that moment.
Moaning, the Daimio cowered down and rocked himself in terror.
He had opened out the fore-front of his host as the Christian dogs cowered back in fear, forming his attack in the shape of the crescent moon, and then to the war-cry of "Allah il Allah!
When for the first time she saw him riding at the head of his cutthroats she was like to swoon in her tracks, and for a whole day thereafter she cowered in the hut, trembling at every sound.
All that evening he and Rosa cowered in the darkness, whispering furtively, their nerves on edge, their senses strained.
For the moment, he cowered in such emotion as was pitiful to see; but it passed and he grew desperate.
Again Frederick cowered down, then rose, goaded to the last degree.
After binding Odo, there was still a piece of the rope left: with this Fulk secured the dog, which, frightened and astonished, had cowered on the earth.
The servants in the kitchen heard the taps, and they cowered over the fire and looked fearfully at each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
