71 adverbs to describe how to shrink

There they seemed to falter, and the beating of my heart became so loud that I instinctively shrank away from my neighbour.

The Boy involuntarily shrank back; the Colonel looked ready to smash him.

" She shrinks timidly from the brown linen arm which he begins insinuating along the back of the rustic settee, and tells him that she couldn't have believed that he could be so absurd.

Suddenly meeting The clear eyes, he smiled, and then shrank inwardly at his forwardness.

In that moment of cruel memory, of ghastly chopfallen vanity, it was all she could do not visibly to shrink from him.

" This was written in answer to some thoughtless rattle that the captain had volunteered to put in his last letter, as coming from Maud, who had sensitively shrunk from sending a message when asked; and it was read by father, mother, and Beulah, as the badinage of a brother to a sister, without awaking a second thought in either.

No matter how much he cringed at the thought of being dragged back to punishment, he shrank still more from the prospect of death in the snow wastes.

Just because he shrank so intensely from the man, he must endure him!

He spoke at length, and in his voice was something she had never heard beforesomething from which she shrank uncontrollably, as the victim shrinks from the branding-iron.

Wait!" for she had shrunk again, this time more plainly.

She shrank backwards, and allowed him to pass, and then trying the door, found it unfastened.

Her own England, the England which had grown up around her, serious, moral, prosaic, shrank coldly from this child of earth, and the renascence, brilliant, fanciful, unscrupulous, irreligious.

The rather colourless fair hair was elaborately done; her thin cheeks were dreadfully white, and her thin neck shrank painfully each time she breathed out, though it grew smooth and full as she drew in her breath.

the sorrowing Father said, "For there, behold my glorious offspring dead!" The hoary Sire shrunk backward with surprise, And tears of blood o'erflowed his aged eyes;

The white-robed maidens shrank back shyly until the box was pressed upon them, when each, at a word from the mistress, selected some small gold or silver locket or chain; each at once placing the article accepted about her person, with an evident intention of adding to the grace with which it was received and acknowledging the intended courtesy.

The clot gradually shrinks, until at the end of a few hours it is much firmer, and floats in the yellowish fluid.

If that growing conviction of hers were indeed the truth, she shrank morbidly from seeming to make any advance.

Other persons, I am aware, have not the same cowardly shrinking from a candid opinion of their performances, and are even importunately eager for it; but I have convinced myself in numerous cases that such exposers of their own back to the smiter were of too hopeful a disposition to believe in the scourge, and really trusted in a pleasant anointing, an outpouring of balm without any previous wounds.

Consequently the remittances coming to London shrank to next to nothing.

Louise shrank intuitively from such a desperate undertaking.

But when people are dispersed over a wide tract of country, the primary assembly inevitably shrinks up into an assembly of such persons as can best afford the time and trouble of attending it, or who have the strongest interest in going, or are most likely to be listened to after they get there.

As this conviction penetrated deeply and yet more deeply into my mind, I shrank inexpressibly from the renewed mental struggle into which it plunged me.

For all that, Lister frankly shrank from the preparatory exercise.

How my soul literally shrank within me!

The while their stores shrank low, waiting the dawn Of that sweet season when through woodlands wan Fresh flowers flutter and the wild birds sing For Winter on the forelock of the Spring Its icy fingers laid.

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