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Example sentences for "shrunk from"

  • For this he shrunk from no toil himself, and was merciless in his exactions of labor from his Indian slave.

  • I consented, while an incomprehensible feeling crept over me; and when once I had time to recollect myself, I shrunk from him, as a blood stained brute, with whom even in his extremity it was unfitting for me to hold any intercourse.

  • Jupiter, to my surprise, shrunk from my side, as if he had received a blow, and the next moment I could hear him communing with Venus in the piazza.

  • Ah, when that is done, I can rest a little," he kept thinking to himself, for the subject seemed so distasteful to Ruth that he shrunk from naming it to her.

  • It was not the sacrifice that she shrunk from, but the crime.

  • Lydia had seen the bracelet and shrunk from it--with a quick gesture of repugnance.


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