4653 examples of cowed in sentences

Cowed and cramped by cold and sunburn alternating as each weary day and night dragged on, they were, almost all of them, the crippled victims of disease.

There was a sense of relief in this great frost; for when Nature puts forth her strength men are usually cowed thereby.

She knew very nearly how much she could have to fear; and, timid as she was, would not be cowed or controlled by apprehensions so defined and bounded.

"A big, experienced, important man, cowed by a mere boy.

The frightened Arab tribes crept away, cowed before his vigilance, but if the whip were once put out of sight they would spring again to the attack.

They saw the praeposters cowed by or joining with the Fifth and shirking their own duties; and so they didn't respect them, and rendered no willing obedience, and got the character of sulky, unwilling fags.

The meeting broke up pitiably piecemeal, drenched and cowed, body and soul, by pouring rain.

" Grimes seemed quite cowed and got on his donkey without another word.

She was profoundly alarmed and cowed by this irresistible weakness, and stood helplessly at bay among the languid roses.

"She seems to me pretty well cowed down.

Sum total: Europe is cowed; England knuckles down; and there is universal peace, with all the kings and people pretending to embrace one another.

Tommy Dye was by this time so thoroughly cowed by the situation in which he thus found himself that he no longer resisted.

He was always cowed at the very sight of the gentle Sisters; but as man to maneven though one be a priesthe was up again at once, and quite ready to hold his own.

But she was now cowed and frightened, and had acknowledged to herself that if 'Miss Hester' would not give way, then she must be allowed to go forth, let the wickedness be what it might.

But I reflected how much finer and stronger it was than my own tendency to be bewildered and cowed beneath a robust stroke of fate.

The lawyer was sore, stiff, and beyond belief weary; and this last mishap, this terrible buffet from the hand of Fortune, left him cowed and spiritless.

The simple truth was that the Creeks could be kept quiet only when cowed by physical fear.

The Wabash Indians were cowed and disheartened by their punishment, and in consequence gave no aid to the Miami tribes; but beyond this the raids accomplished nothing, and brought no nearer the wished-for time of peace.

In four days the towns were reached, the Indians being too cowed to offer resistance.

Their support explained much in the attitude of these peoples, but doubtless the war would have gone on anyhow until the savages were thoroughly cowed by force of arms.

At the same time the hostile Indians were much cowed at the news of Wayne's victory in the North.

But the humpbacked shoemaker still remained cowed and timid, and the threatenings of the preachers of peace still sounded in his ears.

After which, completely cowed, they were dragged in again and set in their places.

For though it was moonlight, the Duke Casimir loved to come home amid the red flame of torches, the trail of bituminous reek, and with a dashing train of riders clattering up to the Wolfsberg behind him, through the streets of Thorn, lying black and cowed under the shadows of its thousand gables.

"Before now I have seen Otho von Reuss in hostile territory, and a right cowed traitor he looked!" said I, boldly.

4653 examples of  cowed  in sentences