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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Oh, yes," she said, lying with shut eyes, so quiet that her lips scarcely moved when she talked. "I said so. But you haven't been kind. It's like don't you know, when you get a little dog used to being struck it gets so it cowers when you speak to it, no matter if you aren't going to strike it that time. I don't want to be hurt any more.
As he cowers upon the seat of his market wagon, he is to the reader what he is in the fading light a mere dim outline of a man. His progress is so slow that there will be plenty of time to relate some facts about him which will make the scenes and events to follow more intelligible. James Holcroft is a middle-aged man and the owner of a small, hilly farm.
I cannot go back and connive at a blasphemous lie. I implore guidance. The Pythoness walks in on the gallery behind him, and touches him on the shoulder. Her size is now natural. Her face is hidden by her hood. He flinches as if from an electric shock; turns to her; and cowers, covering his eyes in terror. THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. No: not close to me. I'm afraid I can't bear it.
Man who tames the lion, harnesses the winds, makes a whimperer of steam and cowers the lightning this same vainglorious, triumphant man is simply helpless in the presence of a woman's tears! Ensal stole quietly to his seat and sat there in a state of amazement. Tiara looked up through her tears, a few pretty locks of hair having now fallen in beautiful disorder across her brow. "Mr.
This same individual, who has so completely sacrificed his own free will, has no natural propensity to obedience; he cowers, it is true, before the pettiest officer; but he braves the law with the spirit of a conquered foe as soon as its superior force is removed: his oscillations between servitude and license are perpetual.
Or if it was partly, was it wholly and entirely? No, my friends, no!" If Mr. Snagsby could withstand his little woman's look as it enters at his eyes, the windows of his soul, and searches the whole tenement, he were other than the man he is. He cowers and droops.
The recipient of the blow cringes, cowers and howls like a beaten hound, but he does not resent.
They hear it now for the first time, but they will hear it many a time again; and the Indian lad is hushed, and cowers close to them, and then takes heart, as he looks upon their swords and arquebuses; for that is the roar of the jaguar, "seeking his meat from God." But what is that glare away to the northward?
True genius never cowers, and there is always some Samson feeling for the pillars of authority.
An aged man in night-dress cowers against the wall of his bedroom and gazes with horror at an enormous index-finger which, with the hand to which it is attached, has crawled across the floor as would a devilfish, or some such sort of monster. The finger threateningly points to the unhappy person. Unquestionably it symbolises a guilty conscience. Franz von Stuck has left his impression on Kubin.
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