Shrank

Examples

• As I shrank away from such a visitor, he came forward and seized my candle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But tonight every fibre in her body shrank from Lily's nearness: it was torture to listen to her breathing, and feel the sheet stir with it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Miss Bart shrank from it slightly, and then flung herself into precipitate explanations. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The Sung empire shrank before this Kin empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• First she shrank from remark; and, if persisted in, she, with her own peculiar _hauteur_, repelled it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I tell you again, I shrank from the horror of hearing you lie, after the horror of seeing you thieve. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I shrank from him within myself when my brother first brought him to me; but the last time I saw him he terrified me more than I can say. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And moreover, she was afraid her hands were too large, she shrank from the mortification of a failure to put them on any but her little finger. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power, repugnant to her whole previous life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He shrank from saying that he had rejected Bulstrode's money, in the moment when he was learning that it was Lydgate's misfortune to have accepted it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She heard the sledge, saw Ursula and Birkin alight, and she shrank from these also. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Amelia shrank and started; the timid soul felt a presentiment of terror when she heard that the relations of the child's father had seen him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Bulstrode shrank--there was a visible quivering in his face and hands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Bulstrode shrank from that result. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Agnes saw it too, I think, for she shrank from him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But gradually it shrank away from her and she felt the dull pavement beneath her feet. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And again Gerald shrank in spirit, as if it would be more than he could bear, as her hot, exposed eyes rested on him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Yes, my friend, I said, and I then shrank from hazarding the bold word; but now let me dare to say--that the perfect guardian must be a philosopher. Plato. The Republic.
• The girls shrank in a frightened group in the centre of the enclosure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She shrank from this ghostly surprise, and felt quite frightened as she rolled and tied it up again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The poor child shrank against me and I felt her two little hands fold tightly over my arm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Instinctively the girl shuddered, and shrank closer to the black woman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Bannister entered, and shrank back in evident surprise and fear at our judicial appearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She spoke with unnecessary earnestness and agitation, and shrank back from me several paces. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And again: it seemed no wrong to keep Raffles at a distance, but Mr. Bulstrode shrank from the direct falsehood of denying true statements. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The scene that followed, though it only lasted for a few minutes, was too painful to be described--Miss Halcombe herself shrank from referring to it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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