Which preposition to use with shrinkings
The hearth will soon grow cold, and the bright eyes of the fairest woman will dull with age, and the years will find you heavy and slow, with a coward's shrinking from death.
Substances used to produce a contraction or shrinking of living tissues.
Sylvester Paine thought he saw a shrinking in her face, and followed up his advantage with a fresh outpouring of abuse.
There was no shrinking on Ralph's part now.
The shrinking within me to face that vague suspicion which I had, turned me first to a foreign land.
White-faced and trembling, the mountain girlwho a few moments before, had been so unafraidstood shrinking before this cultured representative of the arts.
"You might meet your natural shrinking by allowing yourself to treat especially of your literary life; including, of course, whatever went to form and sustain it.
Personally she had no such prejudice, except perhaps a little shrinking at the thought of personal contact with the dark faces of whom Americans always think when "colored people" are spoken of.