Before its time, a biting frost set in; And gnawed with fangs of cold his shrinking life; And the disease so common to the north Was born of outer cold and inner heat.

le! The sea had cooled the burning of that brain; Had laid to rest those limbs so fever-tense, That scarce relaxed in sleep; and now she lies Sleeping the sleep that follows after pain. 'Twas one night more of agony and fear, Of shrinking from the onset of the sea; One cry of desolation, when her fear Became a fact, and then,God knows the rest.

With all thy wild abandoned hair, And terror-pallid lips, Thy blame unclouded to the air, Thy honour in eclipse; Thy head, thine eyes droop to the ground, Thy shrinking soul to hide; Lest, at its naked windows found, Its shame be all descried.

His shrinking timidity of temperament, his singular modesty of manners, his quiet, sly power of humorous yet kindly observation, his minute style of criticism, even the peculiar cast of his piety, all served to stamp the lady-man.

It did not consist in shrinking and starting at such tales as these; but in a disposition of the heart to remedy the evils they unfolded.

It attained an immediate and immense success, which gave the author, a shrinking and modest little body, a foremost place in the literary world of her day.

" She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly.

She soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to save herself from shrinking away altogether.

So Alice ate some and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.

She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly, so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.

Assuming a timid, shrinking demeanor, and speaking in a high, shrill voice, she piped, "Mother, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my darling daughter, Put on your nice new bathing suit, But don't go near the water!" "Don't you think it's unladylike to have your muscles all hard and developed?" * *

All eyes were focused upon Carmen, and blushing and shrinking she went forward to make the required acknowledgment.

But if he makes no effort, shrinking, without a struggle, from his duty, he himself will not the less certainly perish for this baseness of poltroonery.

[Shrinking away.]

Now that, after longer reflection, he had become sure in his own mind that Wilhelm cared nothing for his sister, he felt an instinctive shrinking from recognizing to himself, or letting it be recognized between them, that she unwooed had learned to love.

He began to think he was not so much of a sailor as he had supposed,so great a shrinking grew up in him winter after winter from the perils and hardships of the mail-steamer's route.

The man who is there with the wallop and punch The one who is trained to the minute, May well be around when the trouble begins, But you seldom will find he is in it; For they let him alone when they know he is there For any set part in the ramble, To pick out the one who is shrinking and soft And not quite attuned to the scramble.

My reflections were not of the most pleasant character, and I found myself inwardly shrinking, when I was aroused by the voice of the bowman saying, "There she is, sir, two points on the starboard bow."

he shrank from it, weakly, wickedly, and he was punished for his shrinking.

There was, it is true, the single small instance of the excited noncom. who poked a large, unwholesome-looking automatic pistol into my shrinking diaphragm when he wanted me to get off the running board of a military automobile into which I had climbed, half a minute before, by invitation of the private who steered it.

In battle, as I have often seen them, they seem in their proper element, fierce and courageous, shrinking from no danger.

Lesbia's first sensation upon having this accomplished person presented to her was one of shrinking and disgust.

But now, when the moment for inevitable decision had come, Mike remembered, with a certain shrinking, that responsibility of which Dot had spoken,the responsibility of being a man.

Mrs. Spragg's shrinking from everything new and unfamiliar had developed into a kind of settled terror, and Mr. Spragg had begun to be depressed by the incredible number of the hotels and their simply incalculable housing capacity.

Miss Clayton and her friends, by reason of their assumed superiority to black people, or perhaps as much by reason of a somewhat morbid shrinking from the curiosity manifested toward married people of strongly contrasting colors, would not marry black men, and except in rare instances white men would not marry them.