Cowering
[ko'hɪr]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cower
Typist: Miguel
Examples
- Cowering forward for warmth and to make me a screen against the wind, the convicts were closer to me than before. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The candle was relit, and there was our wretched captive, shivering and cowering in the grasp of the detective. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She hurried on, cowering from the white planet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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