At one time, in front of Brakfontein with the 8-gun 12-pounder battery, we all dug trail pits and blocked the trails completely up in rear to prevent the guns recoiling at all on the carriage.
Disturbed by these different reflections; inclining now to one course and then to another, and again recoiling from all, as each successive consideration presented itself to her mind; Rose passed a sleepless and anxious night.
Twelve miles down the river, and cut to pieces besides,' replied Bumble, recoiling at the thought.
Yes,' said Rose, recoiling a few steps, as if to be nearer assistance in case she should require it.
Her heart was recoiling from a right allied to so much narrowness; a right apparently entailing that hard systematic judgment of men which measures them by assents and denials quite superficial to the manhood within them.
Almost at the same time the sorcerer and the child both uttered a terrible cry, and there was a great commotion in the ring, everyone recoiling with horror.
This was a bold stroke; but there was a risk of inciting Ludovico Sforza to start one of those political plots that he was so familiar with, never recoiling from any situation, however dangerous it might be.
Joan, recoiling in horror: "then I was not deceived; it is a murder that you have proposed.
She had returned, recoiling from the outer darkness and silence, giddy with the sickening sense of faintness which was creeping over her again.
A stout but short set of bars of iron fixed close to the capstan-whelps, or windlass of a ship, to prevent them from recoiling and overpowering the men.
To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan fromrecoiling during any pause of heaving.
At this moment, recoiling from the muzzle of the gun, he exclaimed, "It is loaded!
This advantage is solely the result of the non-recoiling carriage.
The gunners had formerly to stand clear of therecoiling gun, and a shield was therefore of but slight value.
He found himself recoiling in disgust from the man he had been, the man who could have done a wanton thing like that without compunction or ruth.
What were for temporizers arguments in defence of didactic deceit, were for sincerer spirits fresh grounds for recoiling from the whole ecclesiastical field.
He let go of her then, and recoiling against the divan, sat down.
He seemed to hear again the stamp and snort and crash of those thick skulls, to see the beasts recoiling and driving at each other, and the little red eyes of them.
He sought the smoking-room, but, recoiling at the door, went to his own room, and threw himself down on the bed.
A certain trace of revery does find a vent in the traditional art of contrary melodies.
Kendal, beside himself, and feeling as if all the criticisms he had allowed himself to make of her were recoiling in one avenging mass upon his head.
She hesitated, half recoiling for an instant, and her hand trembled.
Colonel Starbottle, recoiling suddenly from the man at his side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recoiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
