Conscience measures our inner recoil from evil.

I could not help reflecting how helpless I was, should I be attacked there, with no room to turn, and where even the recoil of my weapon might be sufficient to drive me headlong into the depths below.

Recoiling in horror, he collected all his energies, and with head depressed towards his chest, and hands thrust forth as if to ward off pollutionbutting, kicking, biting the airhe rushed forwards, and with a preternatural force deserving to be enumerated among his miracles, fairly overthrew the enormous vase, the contents streaming on the crowd in front of the stage.

And she recoiled with fright on seeing Denis seated there and writing.

Were we to consider the constituent parts and properties of the most common things we are in the habit of daily using, and their poisonous and destructive natures, we should recoil at the deadly potion, and shrink from the loathsome draught we are about to take.

Strangely enough, it is from the country of Washington, whom the poet was wont to reverence as the purest patriot of the modern world, that in 1869 there emanated the hideous story which scandalized both continents, and ultimately recoiled on the retailer of the scandal.

As lions in their utmost rage have recoiled before a man who has looked them steadily in the face, so did even those miscreants quail before their pure and high-minded queen.

He opened the door, recoiled for a second as the gale swept angrily against him, then plunged blindly across the street.

" Kelson recoiled as from a blow, staring at his friend with a horror-struck face.

The elasticity of his spirit is unbroken: the bow recoils to its old position.

Then, after a moment's shivering recoil into her chair, she sprang to her feet.

Yet there was something in him that recoiled against killing the lady.

Suddenly the bantam crouched, sprang, and recoiled like a steel trap.

Working the guns in small revolving turrets, as by Ericsson's or by Coles's plan, and loading and cooling them by steam-power, and taking up their recoil by springs in a short space, as by Stevens's plan, are improvements in this direction.

He also showed a "disappearing" gun in an earthwork, the gun recoiling below the level of the parapet and being run up to a firing position by a counterweight.

He fought like the wolf that was his blood brother,lunging, striking down, recoiling out of harm's way, and springing forward to strike again.

With a groan from the heart's core, Rrisa let fall his trembling hand, as he recoiled toward the vague patch of starlight that marked the cabin window.