Recoil time for a whole society--well, it all works out neatly in Tighe's formulation.
Recoil made the gun dance till he caught onto the trick of using it.
The lover submits to all the caprices of a woman; and as a man is never vile while he lies in the arms of his mistress, he will take the means to please her that a husband would recoil from.
It is possible that there exist certain Werthers whose refined and delicate souls recoilfrom this inquisition.
I had perhaps hoped he would recoil at this or give some other evidence of his amazement at an assumption which to me seemed preposterous.
I saw her recoil and for one instant hesitate before replying.
Suddenly from the darkness there emerged, to recoil again, a man's tall figure.
The poor, to whom we give alms, recoilbefore our touch.
As the sea with an immense impulse recoils from an earthquake, there was a vast recoil in the mob, an exact explosion from the machine.
A good and virtuous nature may recoil In an imperial charge.
Who then shall blame His pester'd senses to recoil and start, When all that is within him does condemn Itself for being there?
Nay, in metals, which when melted are liquid but more tenacious, the melted drops often recoil and are suspended.
Abby drew a deep breath, and hurried on, more eager to leave the house than her companion; for she was faint from the recoil of her whole nature against the old man, who had been more than a father to her.
Was not this young creature writhing under the first recoil of her affections, the child of her mother's judge?
What he is in fact laying down in this passage is a much profounder principle,--the principle of the recoil of judgments.
If the leaves crumple up and draw near each other, it is concluded that the young people love one another dearly, but if they recoil apart the opposite is the case.
They were likely to bring with them into the Church the superstitions floating about among the people, and the Feast of Fools may be regarded as a recoil of paganism upon Christianity in its very sanctuary.
Their bravery often approaches the most reckless temerity, and they do not recoilan inch from the greatest danger.
I know that this particular contemplation is largely absent from modern religious life, and I know the nature of the recoilin which our present impoverishment began.
It is, however, no mere recoil from the immoral which started the spring of this psalmists's faith in God.
There is no doubt that, as at the time you laid the embargo, the closing of your ports now, might produce a temporary inconvenience to the enemy; but the measure would finally and permanently recoil on our merchants, and even farmers.
In the steerage we saw a 7- or 9-pounder boat gun polished beautifully (as was all the metalwork in the ship) which had an arrangement for reducing the recoil by a cylinder full of oil.
They were secured to the ship's side by thick ropes or "breechings" passing round the breech of the gun, and long enough to allow of a certain recoil on being fired.
A girl washing dishes brought shrieks of laughter at the little things she did--the struggle with the slippery soap, the recoil from the hot plate, the carelessness with the towel.
He had waited for the outbreak, and when it did not come he suffered from the recoil of his own tension.
He caught the sound of a faint outcry from Aline; he saw the sudden recoil of M.
Sometimes indeed he would recoil with terror from what seemed the threatened dawn in him of a mysterious power, probably latent in every soul, of reading the future of a person brought within certain points of spiritual range.
Doubtless Faber said to himself as well as to her, and said it yet oftener when the recoil of his selfishness struck upon the door of his conscience and roused Don Worm, that he would be true to her forever.
But the recoilof the torrent from below caught her, and just as he was diving again, brought her up almost within arm's-length of him.
The large drop breaks away and falls to the bottom of the beaker, its upper surface rising and falling for some time owing to the recoil of its skin after separation, finally becoming permanently convex.
The recoil is accompanied by the projection of tiny globules from the rim, which becomes scalloped when the globule is stretched.
As though to make up for that instinctive recoil from giving her heart, of which she was always subconscious, she gave him all her activities, without calculation or reserve.
But the trouble lay deeper--the sense of an insuperable barrier; and always that deep, instinctive recoil from letting herself go.
He could not do this at first, for the wrench of the recoil strained his wrist, but this gained strength as he went on.
