She might still have shrunk a little from avowing it to her father, and mother, and Beulah; but, as to herself the world, and the object of her affections, she now stood perfectly vindicated in her own eyes.

Bessie cast about her bright, innocent looks of girlish curiosity, which yet shrank from any chance encounter with the furtive glance or cool stare of admiration.

why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

He shrank down with ter-ror as he look-ed up-on the white teeth and fi-e-ry eyes of the sa-vage brute, and gave him-self up for lost, when, to his joy, one of the great hands e-mer-ged from a-midst the thick fo-li-age of a tree, and pla-ced it-self be-tween him and his en-e-my; at the same time the o-ther hand seiz-ed the wolf, and crush-ed it in its grasp.

Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shine; The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn; In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature!

and the hands being well chafed [rubbed together]; he shrinks up his shoulders, and stretches forth himself as if he were going to cleave a bullock's head, or rive the body of an oak!

So this skin, which I picked up in India, has never shrunk an inch since it came into my possession.

Through Sion's streets his glad arrival's spread, And conscious faction shrinks her snaky head; His train their sufferings think o'erpaid to see The crowd's applause with virtue once agree.

"What is it?" "Have you any idea how you happened to dream that dream about me?" The girl shrank away trembling.

Perhaps, from the message he has just received, he expects to meet the king, and conscience, confronting temptation, has been urging the necessity of proof; perhaps a righteous consideration of consequences, which sometimes have share in the primary duty, has been making him shrink afresh from the shedding of blood, for every thoughtful mind recoils from the irrevocable, and that is an awful form of the irrevocable.

[Illustration: NO. 72] All the sisterhood,stout, thin, long-throated, or short,should know the hour when the withering touch of age begins to shrink the soft, round curves distinctive of the full, sweet throat of healthful youth.

Raw troops might here and there have shrunk from attacks the most desperate on record; but that the great principle of public duty, on grounds purely national, pervaded the army, is to be found in the official reports of its loss; two thousand and fifty-eight men killed and one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six wounded prove indelibly that the troops of the Netherlands had their full share in the honor of the day.

For the errors of my youth have caused me so much remorse and suffering, that it is not only my heart that shrinks from what I didmy very ears abhor the mention of it.

Let us inquire in what case and under the action of what emotions a man may shrink from the object which he is considering.

Here in all verity was "the eternal feminine," fugitive, provocative, unspiritualized, and shrinking the one quality, fecundity, which could have justified it.

One speaker after another shrunk back into silence, too timid to oppose, or too indolent to contend with, the fierceness of his passion.

Where'er thy mace is seen, shrink back the bold, Thy javelin's flash all tremble to behold.

He had shrunk from exposing them to the ups and downs of business life, its trying fluctuations, its frequent cruel mischances.

And like a heart beloved and slighted, Failed, faded, shrunk its form.

"In scorn of hideous death; "Till starting at a brother's[A] name, "Horror shrinks his glowing frame, "Locks the half-utter'd groan, "And chills the parting breath: "Astonish'd Nature heav'd a moan!

The fit of wrath which burst within me, soon Shrunk up my heart as thin as the new moon; Else had I deemed thee still my army's boast, Source of my regal power, beloved the most, Unequalled.

He shrank back hesitating, but hostile hands reached out and pushed him forward.

War has slain its thousands, but alcohol its tens of thousands; and the fortitude which could bear without shrinking the most cruel inflictions of torture, has proved powerless to resist the seductions of strong drink.

He seemed all at once to shrink and stoop and fade,no longer a Lion of the Lord, but a poor, white-faced, horrified little man who had meant in his heart to give a great revelation, and who had succeeded only in uttering blasphemy to the very face of God's prophet.