The compressed Mountain shrinkssilent more and more.
Not the weak Laura, who, by a constitutional defect, shrinks even from the eye where she cannot read distrust!
Belfair, for example, desires to look upon the author of those wonderful tales, yet modestly shrinks from being seen herself.
One shrinks away from the truth and terror of them while lured by their charm.
His judgment is gone, not only in regard to his mental processes, but very essentially regarding himself, and it may be truly said that while alcohol shrinks the judgment, it swells the self-conceit.
Nature shrinks from dissolution, and conscience trembles at the thought of a judgment to come.
He changes neither tint nor muscle; he requires no consolation; he shrinksfrom no torture.
In order that B may be well supplied with pancake, A ought to eat a plentiful supply; but A shrinks from an attack of indigestion, which a surfeit would bring on, so he hires C to glut himself on gauffres in his room.
Thorr shrinks from doing this, but is reminded of his promise.
All at once the whole force of her nature is concentrated in the effort of concealment, and she shrinks with irresistible dread from every course that would tend to unveil her miserable secret.
The mind shrinks from contemplating the thrilling honors of some of the scenes enacted within those deadened walls.
Then follows a cry that has in it the tone of a baffled creature robbed of its prey; it is like the night cry of the puma that shrinks at the blaze of the camp-fire; it is fierce, terrible.
If the exaggerator shrinks from this course his lie will not pass; it might have passed, and I venture a paradox, if it had been gigantic enough.
The crowd shrinks back from her, and breaks up in groups, with a confused, uneasy movement.
For a moment MORE yields utterly, then shrinks back.
And as she shrinks still further back] what's the matter?
He takes her gently by the waist, she shrinks back.
At the slamming of a door above, and hasty footsteps, she shrinks back against the stairs.
GWYN bends suddenly and touches her daughter's hair; JOY shrinks from that touch.
In summer it disappears; the Quinn River, which feeds it, shrinks back one hundred miles toward its source, leaving an absolutely barren floor of clay, level as the sea.
There now occurred one of the critical stages in the history of the planet, when the crust crumples under its own weight and shrinks down upon a nucleus which is diminishing in volume and no longer able to support it.
It's in truth your nature, your sensitive, delicate organism, thatshrinks from this wild tumult that is coming.
He has no care for the revenue, for heshrinks from prompt payment.
This precipitates us at once into the marts of the money changers, and oneshrinks back in distaste.
Therefore Mrs. Browning, through Aurora Leigh, shrinks from the suspicion that her gift may be a heritage from singers before her.
Because, Although she mingles not her words with mine, Yet doth her listening ear drink in my speech; Although her eye shrinks from my ardent gaze, No form but mine attracts its timid glances.
No skill in acting can I deem complete, Till from the wise the actor gain applause: Know that the heart e'en of the truly skilful, Shrinks from too boastful confidence in self.
More than any other celebrity we have ever known, she shrinks from personal display and public observation.
She shrinks nervously from their bold glance of admiration, and repels scornfully any attempt at acquaintance.
She turns with pride to the KING, but shrinks away as she sees his anger.
Perhaps it was remorse that moved him; for the heart, however sunk in vice and folly, shrinks from the touch of a new crime.
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