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Updated: April 30, 2025
She was too quiet, too acquiescent. In the beginning, when Woslosky had brought the scheme to him, and had promised it financial support from Europe, he had taken a cruel and savage delight in outlining it to her, in seeing her cringe and go pale. He had not feared her then. She had borne with so much, endured, tolerated, accepted, that he had not realized that she might have a breaking point.
Who all around me to-day, Bluster, or cringe, and make life Hideous, and arid, and vile, But souls temper'd with fire, Fervent, heroic, and good; Helpers, and friends of mankind." "Our armor now may rust, our idle scimitars Hang by our sides for ornament, not use. Children shall beat our atabals and drums; And all the noisy trades of war no more Shall wake the peaceful morn."
When he left home Katrina had begged him not to come to this funeral, because the folks at this farm were of too good stock to cringe to either kings or emperors. It looked now as if she were right about it. For old peasants who have lived on the same farm from time immemorial consider themselves the superiors of the titled aristocracy.
She could not hear what he said, but spell-bound she watched, while a curious sensation of awe tingled through her. The man was so superbly self-confident. Suddenly she saw him stoop and take something from his prostrate enemy. A sharp doubt assailed her. She saw the wretched Tawny cringe lower and cover his face. She saw the moonlight glint upon the thing in Nap's hand.
The last bell rings the "can't-get-away" folks rush ashore the staging-plank is drawn in some heedless wight has to jump for it the cable is pulled aboard and coiled the engineer's bell tinkles the great wheels revolve, lashing the brown water into foam the steam "whistles" and screams at the boilers, and booms from the 'scape-pipe in regular repetitions neighbouring boats are pressed out of their places their planks cringe and crackle guards are broken, or the slight timbers of wheel-houses, causing a cross-fire of curses between the crews and after some minutes of this pandemoniac confusion, the huge craft clears herself, and rides out upon the broad bosom of the river.
The weeping orange-trees seemed to shrink and cringe under the deluge, as if in aggrieved protest at the sudden anger of that kindly, friendly land of sunshine. The Júcar was rising. The waters, turned to so much liquid clay, lashed red and slimy against the buttresses of the bridges.
Judged even by this easygoing principle, I should sin in penning the reference without which Katy intimates that she will not withdraw her foot from my house. She looms before me, vulgar, determined, irrational and ignorant, the impersonation of the System under which we cringe and groan. "What would you do?" I ask a friend, who is a successful housewife. She shrugs her shoulders.
We know how it is ourselves, they said; we used to be thin-skinned and self-conscious and sensitive. We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury. We have learned that criticism is good for us, and we are grateful for it from any source.
Some would try to plead with him, for the sake of old times; some would cringe and whine to him; some would try to reason with him, to touch his conscience. But mostly they would be haughty, they would glare at him with hate, or put a sneer of contempt on their faces.
They trust each other wonderfully with an almost childlike confidence in a household such as Jaimihr's! Ho! I am king! All lesser fry Must cringe, and crawl, and cry to me, And none have any rights but I, Except the right to lie to me. JAIMIHR was not the only man who would have dearly liked to know of the whereabouts of Mahommed Gunga.
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