Suddenly she fell on her knees beside the lounge and cowered among its cushions, while the eyes of the Christ, reproachfully tender, seemed to pierce her very soul.

I cried, and cowered back into my chair.

The heavy waves that had rushed to and fro Cowered at His feet in sudden melody; And all transfigured in the shining glow Did He come to me walking on the sea.

His wife's sullenness and bad temper continued that day, for she cowered away from him and hid under the sofa, nor could he persuade her to come out from there.

In front of them was a young cow caribou, threatening savagely with horns and hoofs, while behind her cowered two half-grown fawns crowded into a crevice of the rocks.

But Aunt Amy cowered away.

Now the firelight was too feeble to show more than one thingthe haunted eyes of the girl, as she cowered away from him.

A low moaning, as of the dead, greeted this, and the people cowered with shaking knees as the dread finger passed them slowly by.

His head drooped, his shoulders were hunched slightly, as if he cowered before some perpetually falling blow.

Trembling with a fearful apprehension of what might happen next, I cowered against the wall until the day broke, and then I perceived that in front of me was a great hole in the wall of the dungeon, which extended for more than a yard above the floor.

Antonius was leading an army against the Roman people at the time when, being abandoned by the legions, he cowered at the name of Caesar and at his army, and neglecting the regular sacrifices, he offered up before daylight vows which he could never mean to perform, and at this very moment he is endeavouring to invade a province of the Roman people.

She wasand naturally, sincerely, instinctivelythe very incarnation and mouthpiece of the conventionality of society, as she cowered there in her grief and her quiet resentment.

And when he came to Itch, Serge noticed how Itch trembled and cowered before Popoff, cringing as he brought a three-legged stool and saying, "Sit near the fire, little father; it is cold."

There was something lively and merry in it, too, as if the flakes themselves were joyful and dancing in the abundance of their life,as if they and the wind had a life of their own, as well as poor stupid mortals, that cowered under cover, and shut themselves away from the broad, free air.

The conditions had been ripe for it, and in that very moment a fever of repentance spread through the two thousand people who had cowered under his words.

He cowered, cast hunted glances at the bloody figure on the floor, bit his knuckles in a frenzy.

" With one shoulder turned to her father, she cowered to her lover's breast.

He made a poor stroke with the paddle, threw up much surplus water, and, as he cowered away from Tayoga, he corrected himself hastily.

Before this mother in Israel the judges cowered; But still they suffered her to die.

On the threshold cowered Najib.

I cowered in the smoking-room, unmanned; The days dragged by and still the men were here.

Tony cowered down upon his broom under the wall where Dolly had sat in the sunshine all the morning to watch him sweep his crossing.

" She cowered closer to the bed, and answered, "I do not know.

His wife and children cowered at his approach; and on more than one occasion only accident (or Providence) saved him from the crime of murder.

The nurse, a German Catholic, fell on his knees and told his beads, glancing over his shoulder in undisguised horror; the patients cowered together, groaning and praying; and I could hear the stir and confusion in the ward below.