Gerard drew swiftly back: but in that instant he heard the soft murmur of voices and saw a group of persons cringing before some hidden figure.
On this the lady, in a trembling whisper, and hurriedly, and cringing a little, as if she feared the Church would strike her bodily for what she had done, made this confession.
He came round to the road with her; saw her cross the road cringing with fear, then glide away, then turn into an erect shadow, then melt away in the storm.
She had expected him to rage and threaten her; his cringing manner disconcerted her.
Gee," the matron said with sudden, cringing respect.
It was sycophantic, and yet behind the cringing air of an old man who had been worsted in his struggle with fate was a shadow of old truculence.
Owen Daw, in his Celtic accent, quite cringing now.
I found him in my parlour one morning, cringing and smiling, and, as usual, half an hour away from his point.
With all his scheming and cringing he fell foul of everybody, always saying some biting remark with dove-like gentleness.
She did not mind cringingto Durgo, who was her master in the black art, but she objected to Cyril ordering her about.
Here I am, master," said Mrs. Tunks with a cringing air, and Cyril started to hear her so address the negro.
The man cringing in the bed leapt at the hope, as he would have leapt at any hope.
The letters of Cyril of Alexandria proved more acceptable, filled as they were with cringing flatteries of the Roman chair and venomous invectives against the Constantinopolitan see and its occupier.
John, now as cringing and terrified as before he had been proud and despotic, humbled himself in the dust, and at Dover, in A.
Gedeonovsky laughed a thin and cringing laugh; he wanted to gain the good graces of the brilliant young official from St. Petersburg, the governor's favorite.
His small eyes had an expression of stupid conceit, modified by a kind of cringing suspicion; his mustache and whiskers were dyed, he had an immense meaningless forehead, and flabby cheeks: his whole appearance was that of a retired general.
Although clearly showing signs of vice and dissipation, there was something prepossessing in his appearance; a kind of natural refinement was visible through his evident degradation and in spite of his obviously cringing manner.
I don't say but a man might be for a bit by the bye and away, to be doing as well as his neighbours; but this little nasty cringing and courtesying made me as mad as any March devil.
And truly this submission, which sometimes wheedles you into pity, as seldom decoys you into love, as the awkward cringing of an antiquated fop, as moneyless as he is ugly, affects an experienced fair one.
It was one of the spoils of Mithridates, and"--here her eye fell on Agias, cringing and protesting his innocence in a fearful agony.
A fellow standing under the sun portico (a sort of swaggering, chattering, cringing touter, and master of ceremonies to the gutter) told us something with regard to the old disreputable man.
Quickly he traversed the passageway leading to the apartments of Lal Lu; and in response to a light touch upon the gong the same servile apparition emerged and vanished, with cringing obedience, down the passage.
The gray dropped back to all fours, whirled sharply, and took the impact at a glancing blow, a hip cringing low as the ragged hoofs of the black crashed upon it.
He turned his eyes back to the Mexican girl cringing just out of his reach and moved the extended hand up and down slowly to keep his warning fresh upon her.
This cringing thing with the face of an imbecile, embracing his own son’s knees, lying amid his own offal!
John Gore would find his father watching him, not with the old, furtive, cringing look, but with a kind of sadness, a mute perplexity that betrayed the mind working behind the eyes.
Michael made a cringing bow, and the carriage drove on.
Beneath the moon Tarzan held the cringing figure upon its shaking feet.
The little black boy from cringing terror at the sight of Tarzan passed by degrees into trustfulness and admiration.
He knew that they but waited for the time when he should be helpless, or when their hatred should rise to such a height as to submerge their cringing fear of him.
Illustration: "I saw the form of a cringing bum all crumpled and soaked with gin.
My own reflection did not appear, but there where it should have been, I saw the form of a cringingbum all crumpled and soaked with gin.
Now he saw clearly how Angelo Borselli had, through all those years, been his cringing underling and for what object.
This bowing and cringing Smith believes to be the act of Snobs; and he will do all in his might and main to be a Snob and to submit to Snobs no longer.
And it seems to me that all English society is cursed by this mammoniacal superstition; and that we are sneaking and bowing and cringing on the one hand, or bullying and scorning on the other, from the lowest to the highest.
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