Deronda was mute: to question her seemed an unwarrantable freedom; he shrank from appearing to claim the authority of a benefactor, or to treat her with the less reverence because she was in distress.
You can understand that I shrank from saying to a stranger, 'I know nothing of my mother.
She knew her helplessness, and shrank from testing it by any appeal --shrank from crying in a dead ear and clinging to dead knees, only to see the immovable face and feel the rigid limbs.
But he shrank from it as if it had been burning iron, and said again,-- "Leave me.
My cousin did not try to keep me from them; they, whenever I met them, did not shrink from me, and were civil enough: but I shrank from them.
But angered as he was, Charles was a Scotchman, and a Scotch king; and he shrank from a march with English troops into his hereditary kingdom.
Little things became great things in the glare of religious zeal; and the godly man learnt to shrink from a surplice, or a mince-pie at Christmas, as he shrank from impurity or a lie.
He was an autocrat, but he shrank from spying, or attempting to coerce a member into betraying his comrades.
He had found that it cost him more than he had expected to disregard his daughter's inclinations, and he shrank from doing so again.
Indeed, he shrank from thinking of it as he listened to the savage wind in the pine-tops and glanced at the surrounding darkness.
For the moment I shrank from speaking, perceiving what a sad blow to Mr. Carvel my words must be.
As a man, heshrank from confessing to her, however indirectly, the fact that she herself was so vital an element in his disillusionment.
But now that the time had come for it, I shrank from such a meeting.
And for a moment this look was more startling, more appalling than the other; he shrank from it, resented it even more.
Gordon would have liked to warn her to keep away from the dam, but he did not see how it could be done unless he offered some reason, and that was a thing he shrank from.
One moment he was for following Gellow, and pleading to him for time, the next the thought seemed too degrading, and he shrank from having to plead and humble himself before the common, insolent man who had him in his power.
Then a fit of trembling assailed him, and heshrank from going up to the place, where it would seem as if Gartram were standing at the entrance, stern and forbidding, to keep him back.
Twice over he turned to the brandy decanter in search of courage, but he shrank from it with a fresh chill of dread.
Now that a better chance was thrust upon me in his favor, I shrank from seizing it with unutterable reluctance.
Poor, desolate, hunted, I shrank fromlife as an evil thing, and longed impatiently to be rid of it.
I had never seen any one die, not even my father, and I shrank from seeing it.
Catharine, recognized at once by the doctors as a pillar of help, shrank from no office and no sight, however terrible.
And if she came would he be able to bring and hold her to any decision, without--without doing what even he shrank from doing?
But it might have been observed that Meynell did nothing to emphasize the personal relation; that, on the contrary, he shrank from it, and often tried to put it aside.
Her free spirit, having reached the Reality that transcends all forms, shrank from returning to the dogmas, the limitations of a definite creed.
She started at his touch--shrank from it almost; or so he fancied.
Driving out five miles to Lahore, he had leisure to remember, to realise how innately he shrank from speaking to Rose of his mother.
The merit of conquering his superstition was a merit which he shrank from claiming, until he had first unsparingly exposed that superstition in its worst and weakest aspects to view.
He had felt her appeal to his consideration as she had never expected or intended him to feel it--he shrank from looking at her or from speaking to her again.
The more he shrank from it, the clearer the picture of the happy life that he was resigning rose on his mind.
The air and the light gave him pain--he shrank from them; he had not been outdoors since that day, a month before, when he had been taken over with Curly to be arraigned.
This disheartened Marriott, confirmed his belief in their guilt, and he shrank from placing on the stand the witnesses Gibbs would supply.
All he could gather was that Carnaby had left home early this morning, and that Mrs. Carnaby was out of town; it grew more evident that the girl shrank from questions.
Then again, he shrank from announcing to the poor creature that she could no longer draw upon him for her livelihood.
Could it be that Sibyl feared inquiries, shrank from having it known that she was on intimate terms with the daughter of the late Bennet Frothingham--a name still too often mentioned in newspapers and elsewhere?
Being doubtful of my powers, I shrank from risking my scanty funds in any speculative venture.
Everywhere a black tangled mass of rotting leaves and creepers spread, making such a horrible slime that I shrank from attempting to cross it to the open water.
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