Cowed

Examples

• We were so cowed by the sight that I think we should have given the job up if it had not been for Prendergast. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The young man stood looking down at her with sardonic contempt, a cowed, self-conscious look on his thick, pale face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Nor would she but for the mortal pang I had given her pride, that cowed her compassion and kept her silent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Superintendent proved equal to the occasion; he looked at them with his resolute eye, and he cowed them with his military voice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Rosa was cowed in a moment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Perfectly cowed by the breadth, the height, the bone, and the brawn of Mrs. Horsfall, they retreated to the back parlour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Something in my voice, I do not know what, cowed the beasts as they sprang to attack me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His face was white, and he looked about him with cowed angry eyes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There was a quality in his voice, amiable but dominant, that cowed the others, who were all younger than he. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was beat and cowed into laziness and submission. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I knew not how it was, but they cowed and frightened me; and I quailed beneath them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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