15 collocations for recoiled

But instead of coming forward to take it they all recoiled some steps, showing considerable alarm.

He dropped the knife, recoiled a pace or so.

"Do you suppose I'm ever thator ever likely to be?" She recoiled a little from the suppressed vehemence of his tone, but almost instantly he put out his hand again to her with a gesture of boyish persuasion.

In the princess something snapped: she recoiled upon herself, sat crushed, head drooping, white-gloved hands working in her lap.

Thus fired, the gun recoiled nearly 4 ft. on the press, and the carriage ran back on the rails about 50 ft.

Six times his gossamery thread The wary spider threw; [Illustration: BRUCE BEHELD A SPIDER] In vain that filmy line was sped, For powerless or untrue Each aim appeared, and back recoiled The patient insect, six times foiled, And yet unconquered still; And soon the Bruce, with eager eye, Saw him prepare once more to try His courage, strength, and skill.

The Calabrian recoiled apace, in silence, and stood regarding the individual who had caused this hurried remark, with a gloomy but steady air.

But when they knock'd for entrance at the tomb, Their fathers' bones refused to make them room; Recoiling Nature from their presence fled, As though a thunder-bolt had struck them dead; Their cries pursued her with the thrilling plea, "Give us a little earth for charity!"

She recoiled from herself in a shiver of self-reproach as she said: "Olympia, you have the good sense of a man in an emergency.

Sir Allan who had recoiled a quarter of a circle backward at every response, now wheeled the circle entire and turned his back on the landscape, saying, 'My good friend, I must own you have a pretty situation here; but dn your neighbourhood.'

The two principal commanders in the king's army, Louis de la Tremoille and John James Trivulzio, sustained without recoiling the shock of troops far more numerous than their own.

I make no war on him; it is he who is coming to make it on me; but should he bring all the forces of his kingdom I will not budge from here or recoil the length of my foot.

Then he observed the frightful irritation of the breasts and mouth, discovered spots of bister and copper on the skin of her body, and recoiled bewildered.

When one speaks to others, he advances; when one speaks to himself, he recoils a step, his thought centres upon himself.

exclaimed the burgher, rising as it were involuntarily, and actually recoiling a foot or two, apparently under the force of indignation and surprise.

15 collocations for  recoiled