10 adverbs to describe how to cowing
But he fancied that he knew his man, and that in this way only could he be effectually cowed; and he restrained himself.
It plucked by their tails the grave matronly cows, And tossed the colts' manes all about their brows, Till offended at such a familiar salute, They all turned their backs and stood silently mute.
He had the appearance of a wild animal momentarily cowed, but preparing for furious battle.
On the landing they met Mrs. Steadman, a stout, commonplace person, who always had the same half-frightened look, as of one who lived in the shadow of an abiding terror, obviously cowed and brow-beaten by her husband, according to the Fellside household.
Indeed overwork and ill-usage have upon children the markedly demoralizing effect of cowing them permanently, so that in oppressing a child you do more than deprive him of his childhood, you weaken what ought to be the backbone of his maturity.
" "Not precisely a cow," he remarked, "but heifers and asses.
Why, this is my housethe first I've ever owned!" "And welcome you be to it," murmured the old man, to be promptly cowed by a withering look from Mrs. Gilligan.
The Indians were temporarily cowed by their loss and the damage they had suffered, [Footnote: See Haldimand MSS.
" The wretched old man obeyed him, utterly cowed, and went out: but not to be of use: he had been hopelessly boozy from the firsthalf to fortify his body against infection, half to fortify his heart against conscience.
They were visibly cowed.