40 Verbs to Use for the Word shrinking

After that last visit of hers she felt a horrible shrinking from entering the place.

"I fear me thou wilt shrink from the payment of it.

She saw Cordelia Running Bird shrink and color and her face grow very grave.

Sylvester Paine thought he saw a shrinking in her face, and followed up his advantage with a fresh outpouring of abuse.

In vain contending storms thy head enzone, Thy bosom shrinks not from the bolt that falls: The dreadful shaft plays harmless, nor appals Thy stedfast eye, fix'd on Jehovah's throne!

I observed the prisoner shrink from this part of the accusation with the abhorrence natural to a brave man; and as I would wish to make my words impressive, when I point his real crime, I must secure his opinion of my impartiality, by rebutting every thing that seems to me a false accusation.

And why then dost thou shrink from me, as though I were a thing of terror: I, who ask for nothing but to tend thee all my life?

And, as she always did at that hushed hour before dawn, she experienced a physical shrinking from those grim solitudes in which there was nothing warm and human and kindly, nothing but vastness of space upon which silence lay like a smothering blanket, in which she, the human atom, was utterly negligible, a protesting mote in the inexorable wilderness.

Despair at last prevails, When fainting nature shrinks, and rouses all 480 Their drooping courage.

I felt a sudden shrink within me, as their steps quickly ceased to be heard upon the stone stairsand when the distant prison door was finally closed, I watched the last echo.

New England had of old times, and has still, perhaps, in her farm-houses, these women who seem from year to year to develop in the spiritual sphere as the bodily form shrinks and fades.

In such deeds there was infinitely more than the goodness and greatness of a kingly sold; there was in them that profound Christian sympathy which is moved at the sight of any human creature suffering severely in body or soul, and which, at such times, gives heed to no fear, shrinks from no pains, recoils with no disgust, and has no other thought but that of offering some fraternal comfort to the body or the soul that is suffering.

All that is good comes forth, while hate shrinks back to its lair.

You remember the affected air, the downcast eyes, the demeanor intended to imply a modest shrinking from notice, but through which there shines the real desire, "Oh, for any sake, look at me!"

The teeth and nails did not seem to indicate the shrinking of the flesh from them in the desiccating process by which they were preserved.

And yet she knew no shrinking.

"To the student of history, or to him who can read the signs of the times, there was such a profound significance in this occasion as makes one shrink from dwelling too much upon the external details.

"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.

Then, seeing plainly that he was in earnest, she seemed to shrink away from him, as he had noticed her shrink away, for a moment, from the burned man suffering there in the hospital.

Dicky did not notice any shrinking, but Mrs. Underwood saw it.

He observed a shrinking in her touch.

" He spoke in a pleasant, sympathetic tone, and the girl approached him as if trying to overcome an instinctive shrinking, but she did not take the offered chair, she simply stood beside it.

He was by trade a taylor, sir, and is the tenth part of the bumbast that goes to the setting forth of a man: his dealing consists not much in weight but in the weight of his pressing Iron, under whose tyranny you shall perceave no small shrinking.

" The Baronet was all this time eyeing Feltram with a hard suspicious gaze, as if he expected to read in his face the shrinkings and trepidations of guilt; and then turning suddenly on his heel he led the way to his librarya good long march, with a good many turnings.

We come, bright virgin, though relenting nature Shrinks at the hated task, for thy destruction.

40 Verbs to Use for the Word  shrinking