Perhaps they do not understand the sudden recoil of a strong nature long compressed.

For the first time in her life, her father repelled her, shrinking away from her with a brusque, involuntary recoil that shocked her, thrusting her arms roughly to one side, and rising up hastily to retreat into the house.

Expiration may then be regarded as the result of an elastic recoil, and not of active muscular contractions.

" It is, however, no mere recoil from the immoral which started the spring of this psalmists's faith in God.

The darkness of night and the violent recoil of the roaring waves made it hard for them to help him, and it was not until daybreak, when the wind abated, that he reached the land, faint and helpless in body, but with his spirit invincible in misfortune.

We expect it to be a story of heart-breaking disenchantments, of painful struggles, of fierce recoils against ancient beliefs and the teachers who bolstered them up; of indignation at having been so long deceived; of lamentation over years wasted in the service of falsehood.

They were buried to their haunchesif a field gun may be said to have haunchesin depressions gouged out by their own frequent recoils; otherwise they were without concealment of any sort.

And the frightful recoils of their consciences would make all instantly blanch and cross themselves.

Apart from the risk of discovery and infamy, there is the certainty of a conscience ill at ease, or if at ease, so blunted in its sensibilities, so given over to lower lusts, that a healthy instinct recoils from such a state.

At Mr. Clarkson's horrified recoil he laughed himself purple.

v.879, he says, On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

Conscience measures our inner recoil from evil.

The instinctive recoil, the passionate resentment had gone.

But Elsie had unveiled to him her plans for her marriage, and consulted him on the propriety of placing Agnes immediately under the protection of the husband she had chosen for her; and it was this part of her communication which had awakened the severest internal recoil, and raised a tumult of passions which the priest vainly sought either to assuage or understand.

Perhaps because I am a man like the man in the room, like all other men, perhaps because what is bestial engrosses my attention now, I am utterly terrified by the invincible recoil of the flesh.

she said to herself in a mad recoil.

With their tenacious jaws, which tear out the piece, these sirafous make the bravest man recoil.

But they had been checked in their advances by Gwenda's palpable recoil.

Queen Anne herself, not without a struggle, however, at last gave up her opposition to this patriotic recoil; and on the 10th of May, 1505, Louis XII.

The severe shock so extensively sustained by the commercial and manufacturing interests in Great Britain has not been without a perceptible recoil upon ourselves.

But Elsie had unveiled to him her plans for her marriage, and consulted him on the propriety of placing Agnes immediately under the protection of the husband she had chosen for her; and it was this part of her communication which had awakened the severest internal recoil, and raised a tumult of passions which the priest vainly sought either to assuage or understand.

But she was young, and the shamed recoil came automatically.

And now? Through what subtle phases and developments had time led them to this moment of change and consciousness?representing in her, sharp recoil, an instant girding of the willand in him a new despair, which was also a new docility, a readiness to content and tranquillise her at any cost.

" On his appearance Mr. Phillybag suffered a slight recoil, but recovered himself quickly and exchanged embarrassed greetings.

this is a thing from which the startled spirit recoils in speechless horror, and vainly, vainly strives to wrench itself by forceful thought from the shuddering, encumbering frame!