Apart from the risk of discovery and infamy, there is the certainty of a conscience ill at ease, or if at ease, so blunted in its sensibilities, so given over to lower lusts, that a healthy instinct recoils from such a state.
But although the mind instinctlvely rejects all needless complexity, we shall greatly err if we fail to recognise the fact, that what the mind recoils from is not the complexity, but the needlessness.
President Roosevelt vaguely sees the revolution, is frightened by it, and recoils from seeing it.
But our nature recoils from suffering and seeks life in brightness and power, beyond the keen pangs of mortal existence.
But there was no proof that Job had been guilty of this kind of inhumanity, and the gross perversion of justice to which Eliphaz condescends recoils on himself.
But as his eyes fall upon her, he recoils in some great horror, as a man may who has received a blinding blow.
Half a minute later Trix sweeps in, sees the motionless figure, and recoils with a shriek.
It is in such moments that tender souls unveil themselves, and stand face to face; and at times it will happen, that the one recoils affrighted from the countenance of the other.
Darkness and all that the spirit recoils from, is contained in this idea, not to be.
There is a third light in which God's holiness is shown to us, and that is in the sternness with which He recoils from guilt.
My heart recoils from a contemplation of his fearful and changeless destiny.
And the young steed recoils upon his haunches, The never-yet-seen adder's hiss first heard.
Why that's my case; and yet the soul recoils from it-- 85 'Tis so with me at least.
Footnote 6: The actor should not allow her: she approaches Hamlet; herecoils a little.
This last picture is a study of sea whose whole organization has been broken up by constant recoils from a rocky coast.
Once it was the practice of nations to slaughter prisoners of war; but the Spirit of War recoils now from this bloody sacrifice.
But as he gazes triumphantly into her eyes, her lips curl, she recoils in scorn and aversion.
It is Mr. Sharpe who recoilsfrom the sight of the two dead bodies, and the still sadder sight of the living madwoman, crooning her senseless songs, and counting her jewels in a distant corner.
When a ball is fired from a cannon, the cannon recoils at the same time and with the same momentum that the ball goes forward.
The reflector therefore recoilslike the cannon, but where is the ball if light is an immaterial wave motion?
When one speaks to others, he advances; when one speaks to himself, he recoils a step, his thought centres upon himself.
Could it be merely the weakness of a woman who recoils from an act of final significance?
The pragmatistrecoils with a certain mixture of horror and amusement from the conception of an all-inclusive divine insight.
But from this proposed match he recoils with a natural horror.
For so vital a necessity to all living men is TRUTH, that the vilest traitor feels amazed and wronged, feels the pillars of the world shaken, when treason recoils on himself.
My imagination, which is not the least damped by the idea of having my head cut off in the bush, recoils aghast from the idea of a life like Gladstone's, and the shadow of the newspaper chills me to the bone.
The picture of the evil-doers from whom the psalmist recoils is darker in these last verses than before.
There is more power to those recoils than I figured, though our first experiments seemed to warrant us in believing that we had solved the problem.
Strong only is he in power of mischief, and even his mischief, like curses, recoils on those who use it.
At first she thinks it is the jailer, and is about to tell the man she is ready to descend to her cell, when she recognises him, and recoils in terror.
Panting and like a man demented, he recoils past the head of the couch, and rushing to the window, draws the curtains and throws the window up for air.
Seeing the forms on the couch, he recoils a moment.
KEITH draws his hand away, and she recoils a little humbly, looking up at him again.
He recoils towards the window] You--you touched me there.
He suddenly recoilsand stands petrified with doubt.
And as must needs be the case, that love is the measure of his abhorrence of the opposite; and because God's commandments are so dear to him, therefore he recoils with healthy hatred from false ways.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recoils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
