Far from feeling a reprehensible pleasure at seeking the meetings with Mr. Carlyle, Barbara shrank from them; but that she was urged by dire necessity, in the interests of Richard, she would wholly have avoided such.
Again she shrank away; true love is ever timid; and whatever may have been Barbara Hare's other qualities, her love at least was true and deep.
Tessie shrank back appalled at the mere thought of making a speech before Mr. Kingley and the department managers.
Tessie shrank away as she saw the gleam of Ka-kee-ta's ax.
It was not that he thought less or cared less for matters of such import than other great editors do, but rather that he had a well-ordered mind that instinctively shrankfrom confusion.
Mr. Bryant shrank from self-assertion even of the most impersonal sort, as I never knew any other human being to do.
While Mr. Bryant shrank from the delivery of opinions concerning the moderns, his judgments of the older writers of English literature were fully formed and very positive.
He looked at it till the bugbears shrank into utter insignificance; till they became no more than forms of shreds and patches put up to frighten birds out of cherry-orchards.
But as each impaled victim shrank with agonized terror from the torture, Mr. Gitemthruet would turn round to Alaric and assure him that they were going on well, quite as well as he had expected.
Even loyal Laura now shrank aside from her paragon, simply horrified.
Even yet nobody dared speak to her of that terrible time, for it made her so hysterical; and for some reason she shrank from Dorothy's visits of inquiry and sympathy more than from any other's.
Mr. Dalton was approaching, and the speaker, but now climbing the heights of oratory with the paper flourished like a standard before him, shrank suddenly into himself and seemed to fall away, as if he would annihilate himself if he could.
She thoroughly appreciated the methods taken to possess them (one cannot say earn in this connection) and her sensitive soul shrank in terror from benefiting only through others' misfortunes.
His own audacity, which surprised himself it was so unlike him, made George Dalton color like a girl, and he fairly shrank behind the Madame's tall figure to conceal his rising color.
Lucy Hapgood had heard of live wires, and shrank from touching even the receiver till repeatedly assured there was no danger of electrocution.
In an instant the boy shrank away into a corner, sobbing wildly.
Dexter was speechless, and he shrank back staring.
Kisses were strangely fleshly things; Beth shrank beneath Jim's eagerness; poetry vanished before the fierceness of his embrace.
Judith, on the other hand, shrank when first her future came suddenly near.
The Colonel considered the possibility and shrank from it.
Her enthusiasm was communicable--not through its loftiness, for from that he shrank with mistrust, but through its energy and daring.
Nothing was said to the President about the change in his quarters when he went to bed; but next morning he came out smiling, and said: 'A miracle happened last night; I shrank six inches in length and about a foot sideways.
Though oppressed with the weight of responsibility resting upon him as President of the United States, he shrank from assuming any of the honors, or even the titles, of the position.
Lincoln, on the other hand, shrank from any controversy with his friends.
All eyes were turned to Lucy, who shrank further back with a very distressed face.
He shrank from general notice, and tried to efface himself when reporters got on his track.
I had some business with the purser--business that I rather shrank from executing.
Of course, he would do anything Lord Stranleigh commanded, and that without consciously hinting disapproval, but the earl shrank from giving a command as much as he would have disliked receiving one.
When she at last returned to the room, and tried to converse with her sister, she observed that Fanny shrank from her approach and that she had been weeping.
But Lindsay shrank from all offices of sympathy, and except for seeking now and then Wayland's silent companionship, bore his grief alone.
Miss Snell shrank from his vehemence, and wished she had not insisted upon coming to consult him.
She struggled to her feet, then shrank back against the wall.
Adolf von Wiebe shrank back like an animal at bay, and glanced agitatedly from side to side for a means of escape.
The midshipman turned a wan face towards him, gazed at him with red and swollen eyes, and shrank back.
Josephine loved Rose very tenderly; but shrank with modest delicacy from making her a confidante of feelings, the bare relation of which leaves the female hearer a child no longer.
When she was with him his pride bore him up: but when he was alone as he thought, his anguish and despair were terrible, and broke out in so many ways that often Rose shrank in terror from her peep hole.
Raynal had something to say so painful that he shrank from plunging into it.
The fellowshrank back, his eyeballs starting from his head.
She shrank back in her chair with a little cry, and Rolfe stepped toward me, then turned sharply aside.
Dutch War returned to his labours at The Hague, and in 1679 carried through the Peace of Nimeguen; although offered a State Secretaryship more than once, shrank from the responsibilities of office under Charles II.
He shrank from her loud voice and the vulgarity of her comments, and she was aware of it and didn't care a rap.
They forced the children--some of whom cried, and shrankfrom the horrid sight--to turn and see the blood and the struggle.
Virginity instead of purity became the ideal of the highest type of woman, who shrank from the fulfilment of her functions as a stepping down, instead of glorying in it as the fulfilment of her sacred purpose.
As a rule the dear lady had begged her son to use the more stately guest chamber, but to-day he shrank from the state apartment as one grown noted, yet now waiting for ignominy.
It shrank and shivered at his touch like a living thing.
He now lay in a sort of half sleep, and shrank and trembled with the effort that his horrible delusion required of him.
The first girl shrank back as her husband laid his hand on her arm.
She shrank back at this evidence of magic and breathed an entreaty.
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