Are we not worst of all, tempted (as I too often am) to say to them "Thou fool;" to call better men, more useful men more pure men, more pious men than ourselves, hard and cruel names, names from which they would shrink with horror because they cannot see Christian truth in just exactly the same light that we do?

Why does it love to hear of things beautiful and noble, and shrink from things foul and mean, if what I say is not true?

The very lowest of themthat which makes you shrink at the sight of pain, and rejoice in the sight of pleasure, is not natural, and common to you with the animals; it is supernatural and divine.

Therefore, they shrink from God, and turn from Him to idols, to the Virgin Mary, or Saints, or any other beings who can deliver them (as they fancy) out of the hands of their Father in heaven.

Why should they shrink from remembering that, though God's kingdom is not come in perfection and fulness, it is here already, and they are in it?

Why should they shrink from that thought?

"To start at the dead is preposterous error, To shrink from a foe that can never contest; Shall that which is motionless move thee to terror; Or thou become restless, 'cause they are at rest? "To think harm of her

But to be human was to love life, to hate death, to faint under loss, to throb and pant with heavy sighs, to lie sleepless in the long dark night, to shrink with unutterable sadness at the wan light of dawn, to follow duty with a laggard sense, to feel the slow ebb of vitality and not to care, to suffer with a breaking heart.

They burned up the suit of clothes pa took off and the one he was going to put on, and the ambulance drove away, while pa shook one fist at the sailor and one at me, and his skin began to shrink and smart, and he yelled, and the audience stampeded, and the show was in the dumps.

Coward I have been; know, there lies not now Within the compass of a mortal thought, A deed that I would shrink from;but to endure, That is my destiny.

You see cold makes anything get smaller and shrink, and heat makes things swell up, and get larger.

"'Tis not for us to shrink from Persian foe, Put on thy armour, and prepare thy bow.

So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaffyou shall not shrink.

The college players looked stunned, while their howlers, over on the visitors' seats, seemed to shrink within their coats.

I shrink instinctively from one who professes to like minced veal.

My friends, she is worthy both of praise and of blame, and Cooper was not the man to shrink from bestowing either, at what seemed to him the proper time.

And before I could, my body began to shrink.

He may be excused if he shrink from the lurid glory of martyrdom; he may be justified in not placing himself in a position of singularity.

She must have felt the change in his voice, for although her sobs redoubled she did not again shrink from the hand he laid upon her hair.

So I needed "The Georgics" very badly that afternoon, and the hour would have lost much of its perfection had I not been able to take the book from my knapsack, and corroborate my mood, while Colin was sketching an old barn, by reading aloud from its consecrated pages: "I can repeat to thee many a counsel of them of old, if thou shrink not back nor weary to learn of lowly cares.

Now, sleeping out of doors in October, if you have ever tried it, is a very different thing from sleeping out of doors in June, and as for rural hospitalitywell, if you are of a sensitive constitution you shrink from obtruding yourself, an alien apparition, upon the embarrassed and embarrassing rural domesticities.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves, who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than, in silence, shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves, who dare not be In the right with two or three.

Every mother should shrink from the sight of such a picture.

"You will go back, will you not?" She seemed to shrink from my approach, and moved backward, still facing me, until she came to her own door.

" I touched her hand with my fingers, and she did not shrink away, or seem to observe the action.