15 collocations for cringes

Such is the nature of the populace; they are either cringing slaves or haughty tyrants.

Occupied by this thought, I went into a gaming-house, where I was much interested and amused by watching the players and observing their tricks, their sleight-of-hand, their bullying or cringing behaviour to each other; the reckless profusion of the winners, the muttering despair of those who had lost.

" "Of what?" The starosta shrugged his narrow shoulders in cringing deprecation.

While echoes ran, a wagon old, Under stout guard of Corporal Chew Came up; a lame horse, dingy white, With clouted harness; ropes in hand, Cringed the humped driver, black in hue; By him (for Mosby's band a sight) A sister-rebel sat, her veil held tight.

Alternate drunkenness and inordinate affection for me, or sullen silence and cringing fear.

He cringed a little as he stood.

The complaisant manthe cringing manthe man who cannot say No, or dare not say No?

Ah, to what cringing meanness are most people reduced by adversity!

The case is very different, however, at a Russian post station; when an official or officer comes, every one is active enough, cringing round the watering-place for fear of flogging or punishment.

No sign of fear, distress, or cringing povertyrather an innocent sovereignty, lovely and unashamed.

These pirates who had seemed so dreadful to me, now were nothing more than cringing schoolboys before their master.

No sign of fear, distress, or cringing povertyrather an innocent sovereignty, lovely and unashamed.

"Liars, cowards, ingrates, strutting peacocks, bladders of wind boring me and one another with their empty phrases, cringing lick-spittlesthey make me sick to look at them!

His face wore a look of hot, flurried excitement, and his manner was one of abject, cringing self-abasement.

We want our boys to grow up manly citizens, and not cringing sycophants.

15 collocations for  cringes