He made one step forward, then shuddering, recoiled with an exclamation of horror at his miserable cowardice.
Mrs. Grimshawe recoiled with a sudden backward step--"What if Dan is here?
Sophy recoiled involuntarily a few paces from her guest.
Mrs. Weymore had never even seen the late Sir Noel that any one knew of, and yet she had recoiled with a shrill, feminine cry of utter consternation at sight of the young man.
Mrs. Weymore met him just now, and recoiled with a shriek, as though she had seen a ghost.
He withdrew, so that when his enemy landed on the spot, he found himself still confronted by the defiant youth, who had recoiled but the single step necessary to escape the blow.
When the squaw offered him a half cooked piece of meat, he snatched at it with such wolf-like fierceness that the squaw recoiled with a grunt of dismay.
She would have clasped his knees, but he involuntarily recoiledfrom her touch, and gathered the folds of his robe about him.
At the charge the Camanche horses recoiled and could not be urged upon the fort of slaughtered mules.
Devoted Orangemen though the judges are, they have recoiled before their own iniquity.
I recoiled before the thought of the grief that the rupture of this alliance between our two families would cause you and my uncle.
I admit it--I recoiled before the declaration that, however tardily, I now feel forced to make, at last.
He sprang out of bed and looked out of the window and recoiled in horror.
Before this young hero the, crowd of senseless, rushing brutes recoiled as from a fire.
In an instant he had seized a heavy silver candelabrum from the table and swung it like a weapon towards the Count, who recoiled a step,--not from the menaced blow, but from the face confronting him.
Naturally, poor John recoiled in horror; the whole thing seemed so incredible, so impossible to believe.
Before this apparition Hilary recoiled towards the door, hesitated, and returned.
Besides, he did not want to go, for the other side of this young Forsyte recoiledfrom leaping before he looked.
Pierson recoiled from it, and resumed his march along the Embankment, almost deserted in the bitter cold.
He recoiled against the foot of the bed and stared at her haggardly, and Gyp, turning back to her mirror, went on quietly taking the pins out of her hair.
Once or twice, when Fiorsen let passion out of hand and his overbold caresses affronted her, she recoiled almost with dread from what she was going toward.
She had risen and stood recoiled against it; her hand, placed on the keys as if groping for support, had struck a sudden discord, held for a moment, and released.
But his touch was too much even for her self-command, and sherecoiled as if he had struck her.
She had recoiled against the bookshelves reaching to the ceiling; her dark head leaned against Gibbon's Roman Empire, her eyes in a sort of soft grey agony were fixed on Val.
Her mouth was soft, and she smelled of orange blossom; but Gyp recoiled a little--she hated promiscuous kisses.
But Bellew recoiled of his own accord; his eyes were fixed again on the floor a little beyond her to the left.
But not quite to the point whence they recoiled on his daughter, his family, himself!
A child so sensitive had not, of course, quite failed to feel the spiritual draughts around her; but instinctively she had recoiled from more definite perceptions.
I recoiled from it with loathing, for the eyes were protruding from the sockets and the mouth open, and the expression of the features was hideous in the extreme.
Red Crow recoiled for a moment on catching sight of his execrated relative, but it was through surprise rather than fear.
He moved uneasily, muttered something in his own tongue, and then came to a sitting posture with such suddenness that the startled youth recoiled several paces and grasped the weapon more firmly than before.
How they must have recoiled when they heard the sweeping command, 'Go ye into all the world'!
We need not wonder that theyrecoiled from the right conclusion, which is--the divinity of Jesus.
Let us never forget that He recoiled from it, with the simple, instinctive, human shrinking from pain and death which is a matter of the physical nervous system, and has nothing to do with the will at all.
The message from Robert Willoughby had induced our heroine to seek this room; for, placing little confidence in the delicacy of the messenger, she recoiled from listening to his words in the presence of others.
Nick recoiled an entire step, and gazed at the still beautiful victim of his ruthless revenge, in a manner no one had ever before noted in his mien.
The fortune of the battle, therefore, was instantly reversed, and dismay recoiled from the conquered on the conquerors.
He himself having been afterwards attacked by a stratagem of the barbarians, by the union of skill and strength, so repelled the danger, that the artifice recoiled on its originators.
The alternative, death,--he recoiled from the idea, as youth and hope ever must recoil.
There was something in the woman's tone that went to the heart of the lonely boy, even while he recoiled from the repulsive creature before him.
Michael recoiled from the sight with a sickening sadness.
But Tignonville recoiled another step and was silent.
She recoiled with a low cry, and her cheek blazed scarlet where he had struck it.
She recoiled from the strange figure; her eyes met his.
This cruel neglect recoiled upon his own head: even before the severities of a northern winter set in[41] the hosts of Napoleon were perishing with hunger.
In this respect they were filled with the fruit of their own devices; their wanton acts of pillage and devastation recoiled upon their own heads.
She wrote with unstinted tenderness, and recoiled in nowise from the fulfilment of her promise.
Was she not one woman in a thousand to have pledged herself to him just when any ordinary woman would have shunned him--would have recoiled from him as from some savage monster?
She recoiled in horror from even the thoughts of that man with the black and treacherous heart.
For an instant Winter recoiled as if in fear of the thrust which he was now powerless to avert.
The sting was a nearer one; it was his own present of fair example and good repute that recoiled with a fastidious sense of abasement from the recollection.
From the thought that he loved the promised wife of another, a quick, fastidious sense in him recoiled abashed.
In the midst of the lavish comforts of his home he struck me as cold, yet it was not so much that he repelled me as that I recoiled from him.
Heubner too was now bound to recognise the necessity for extreme measures, and no longer recoiled from any proposal on the part of Bakunin which was directed to this end.
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