All the spies seemed on a sudden to be armed, Desmond noted, all, that is, save Mrs. Malplaquet who lay cowering on the settee.
She arched her body stiff, like a child in a passion, and strained every muscle to remain where she was cowering by the inn-door.
Howd thy noise," he growled, and once more she shrunk coweringfrom his fierce eyes.
Whose are these white-robed bands cowering and trembling before me, though each man carries a naked knife in his girdle, and another in his hand?
The door opened, a man came out with a horde of children cowering at his heels, a volley of frightened words pouring from his mouth in a strange tongue.
How the hunters vied with each other to supply the best, and spent the days stalking the deer cowering in the wet thickets.
Down the midst of the mountain swirled the flood, until the first widening fissure opened into a long bowl four miles wide; and two cowering hills separated by this gradual bowl-like valley were all that was left of its curving majesty.
The mountain in labor sometimes brought forth a mouse; sometimes, a rain of fiery death to the Herculaneums cowering at its foot.
No, they will not freeze in lumps, but they will come near it, and they will sit moping and cowering in gloomy rooms while you are flying about in foreign lands, amid bright flowers and warm sunshine.
He says you can go along and open the chest in the corner, and there you'll see him cowering in the dark.
Why should his company officer do such a thing; why should they all be cowering in the trench waiting for death to come to them; why.
Your position, you feel, is now strategically sound, with regard to the wretched pair cowering behind rubble heaps.
Cowering in the back of the room Delany tried to hide himself among the spectators.
Mr. Dalroyd shrankcowering into the deeper shadow of a buttress and dropping his cane upon the grass groped for the hilt of his small-sword.
And stooping, he seized the cowering form in strong, merciless hands, dragged him across the floor and kicked him from the room.
A blue-black moistness lay heavy on the cowering earth.
Gourlay smiled because he had the same thought, but feebly, because he was cowering at the bigness of the world.
In spite of his forebodings, nothing more untoward befell him that morning than a cut over the cowering shoulders for being late, as he crept to the bottom of his class.
They have a cowering sense of their own inefficiency.
And from that hour silent he sits on his throne, about him the awe-struck gods and heroes, the war-maids cowering at his knees.
So with quivering fingers he stripped her before him; and she crouched there, cowering and weeping.
He had thought of his friend as a man who had boldly defied the convention of marriage; and instead of that he was apparently a man cowering under the lash of the world's undeserved rage.
For a moment I stood dumb in the spell of that horror, then a movement beyond, against the wall, aroused me, and I beheld her murderers cowering there, one with a naked sword in his hand.
Another step Galliard descended; then from the guardroom came a loud yawn, to send the boy cowering against the wall.
The stricken look was still upon it, but there was no cowering in her attitude now.
Blackie came over to me as I sat cowering in my chair.
Fiercely he raged among the snarling pack, kicking, clubbing, cursing, till one and all he had them beaten into cowering subjection.
His crashing giants had driven her cowering to the inviolate fastnesses of her hills.
But these poor cowering things, tortured to make a hooligans’ holiday!
I felt my gorge rise against these poor cowering worms.
The trooper stripped off his high leather boots and turned up his trousers; then he began cautiously to climb, cowering down behind every boulder.
When I looked in, the girl Sophie Ramusine was crouching in a corner, cowering away, with fear and loathing expressed on her averted face and in every line of her shrinking form.
From them the shout, spread through the cowering army, became, indeed, a battle-cry significant of success.
The heir apparent and his brothers were cowering in fear, afraid to strike, yet hoping that others would strike for them.
Savage troopers urged their horses into the water and slashed coweringwomen with their sabers.
Cowering amid some shrubs of dense foliage, he watched Malcolm dashing along the road to the Lahore Gate of the palace.
While looking keenly about I detected, within easy rifle-shot, a fine hartebeest, trembling andcowering behind a tree, as if it expected the fangs of the lion in its neck.
Glancing back at the woman, now cowering almost to the floor, he pounded at the door and asked the man inside to open.
Alicia had shrunk back, almost to where a little figure was cowering with wide eyes fixed in something like terror on the aroused father's face.
IV The sole sweet land found fit to wed the sea, With reptile rebels at her heel of old, Set hard her heel upon them, and controlled The cowering poisonous peril.
Then I called to the dog, knowing that he and the shepherd would not be far apart, and at the call the dog turned quickly toward me and leaped back a yard, cowering a little with drooping tail.
The shepherd howled in fright when he was left, but I did not heed him, and in a moment I was round the rock and almost on the coweringman whom I had seen.
The Home Secretary sat apart, cowering in an easy-chair, and stretching out his hands timorously from time to time to meet the radiant heat of the great oil stove.
They left Mr Tubes cowering before the stove, and raising his head nervously from time to time to listen to the noises of the street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
