Shrinks
[ʃriŋks]
Examples
- Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Compress t he large vein entering the heart, and the part intervening between the point of constriction and the heart becomes empty and the organ pales and shrinks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He, too, shrinks from them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His heart, exhausted by his early sufferings, reposes like a new-healed limb, and shrinks from all excitement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She shrinks from it as from something unholy, and such thoughts never found a resting-place in that pure and gentle bosom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Caliphronas, Justinian, and Alcibiades are all their divinities, not a poor poet like me, who shrinks from their scampish ways. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Nigel