A superstitious respect keeps them cowed under their burden, or makes them cringe before their master.
Are these thy great men, these that cringe and creep, And writhe through slimy ways to place and power?
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; 10 Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
I knew how to dodge and cringe and dissemble before I knew the names of the seasons.
He is not bound to cringe to any superior, or to pray for any act of grace, as a means of enjoying all the rights and privileges enjoyed by other citizens.
We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury.
Never mind, said the lad to himself, the day will come when you will cringe to me.
If he is a weak or dishonest man, he will cringeto that committee, and expend all his ingenuity in making the College show well on public days.
I would not cringe Down like a spaniel underneath the lash, But like a man would teach my proud Pauline And her hard father to repent the day They called me 'beggar.
O follow no goblin fear; O cringeto no cruel creed; Nor chase the shadow of doubt Till the brain runs mad with despair.
Illustration] "I would not fawn upon the hand that smote; I would not cringe beneath its cruel blow, Nor even let her know I cared for it.
And meanwhile, you cannot blame us if we cringe to the Eagle that is master of the world.
Oh, I'll make you cringe most of all, Billy Woods!
You can cringe and shiver for only a limited time; then it becomes tiresome, and you must look after your own occasions of eating and sleeping and waking no matter what the tiger does.
How they used to cringe in old times before a man who was rich--there are so many of them gone into bankruptcy lately that we are losing a little of our fear.
Her subjects cringeat her feet, covered with the dust of obedience.
They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance.
Now, though he could not move, he appeared to shrink into himself, to cringe before an encroachment which he could no longer avert.
Some people shrink from it and cringe at home, and when they're taken by the scruff of the neck and flung out they're frightened and helpless.
A father, I'm sure, has absolute power; Before him I can onlycringe and cower.
He will find ways To gild with reason all the things he says; And with less than this the people in power Have forced their foes to cringe and cower.
And the wail of the South wings forth; Will ye cringe to the hot tornado's rack, And the vampires of the North?
No woman was ever so proud as not to cringe in an ugly hat.
In the society in which I live, am I not obliged to feel, that if I am deprived of these advantages, I must expect to languish in contempt, to cringe under the rod of oppression?
From this shelter they had gone forth into a world which is reputed cold, and has nevertheless some shelter still for such as are prepared to cringe to the overbearing, to flatter the vain, to worship riches.
She had found out that the world cannot pause to help the stricken, or to give a hand to the fallen, but that it always has leisure to cringe and make way for the successful.
Though the mine was populated with peons and there was not then another American below ground, they watched him tear down the sheets without other movement than to cringe about him, each begging not to be believed guilty.
One feels no great sense of security in a country whose boyish, uneducated, and ragged guardians of order cringe around like beggar boys hoping for a copper.
You feel a fine thrill when you see a half dozen huskies cringe away before you with fear in their eyes.
Why will men cringe and cry forever here For that which, once obtained, may prove a curse?
Now unshamed Shall seize the despot on Imperial power, Unshamed shall cringe the Senate.
For famine only makes a city free; By gifts of food the tyrant buys a crowd To cringe before him: but a people starved Is fearless ever.
But which," he added, "gives me leave to hope that as a man himself he will not cringe before the drum-head.
In the instant he seemed to cringe before his late passenger.
