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Sentences ending with shrank

The power of truth had given each its full emphasis and held up to Miriam a mirror that showed her an image from which she shrank. [10]
She shuddered and shrank. [11]
She did not resist her desire for Ditmar because she believed, in the orthodox sense, that it was wrong, but because it involved a loss of self-respect, a surrender of the personality from the very contemplation of which she shrank. [9]
It jarred on her so that she shrank. [11]
He smiled strangely, and shrank. [11]
Carnac was of an impressionable nature, but brought to face the possibility of marriage with Luzanne, he shrank. [11]
Yet he shrank. [11]
The footman shrank. [11]
Again she shrank. [11]
She shrank. [11]

Short sentences using shrank

I shrank from the ridicule. [9]
She shuddered and shrank back. [11]
Instinctively I shrank from him. [9]
Parpon hesitated, shrank back. [11]
She shrank back. [11]
He shrank inwardly. [11]
Bissonnette shrank back. [11]
Honora shrank. [9]

Sentences containing shrank two or more times

There was a wicked look in his face, from which the landlord shrank back- shrank so far that he carried himself among the others, and stood there, half frightened, half dumfounded. [11]

More example sentences with the word shrank in them

She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man's tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his-- She paused, and did not say the word. [11]
She did it with the greatest caution, but her fingers had hardly touched her, when Selene shrank back with a groan, and before she could undo the sandal, the patient had fainted away. [10]
Like his horse, which turned its head and laid its ears back, he shrank from the driving rain and gazed anxiously before him. [2]
With them she was very affable, and she made them feel that they could almost be classed with her friends, and that they were her guardians against the vulgar publicity, which she disliked and shrank from. [4]
The obvious inference was that of another man, of another influence in opposition to his own; characteristically, however, he shrank from accepting this, since he was of those who believe what they wish to believe. [9]
But the apathy was dispelled now, and she shrank from giving Jethro pain by mentioning the fact. [9]
Now that it was at hand, he rather shrank from the meeting of these ancient loves. [11]
She shrank from using it yet, and besides, dark times might come when it would be needed. [11]
The look he turned on the intriguers of the Palace was repellent; he reserved for Sharif a moody, threatening glance, and the desperate hakim shrank back confounded from it. [11]
Presently he turned towards the Cure, and shrank so that he looked smaller still. [11]
I felt airy touches on my shoulders and my hair, and I shrank from them and cringed, and was not ashamed to show this fear, for I saw the others doing the like, and knew that they were feeling those faint contacts too. [5]
To go now to the white house on the hill; to face that old life even for an hour, a knocking at the door of a haunted house--he shrank from the thought. [11]
She shrank closer to the wall, but the seconds became minutes, and no one appeared. [10]
Klea was about to stroke the coaxing animal, but it sprang back, stared at her shyly, and, as she could not help thinking, angrily with its green eyes, and then shrank back into the corner close to Irene's couch. [10]
Ulrich was obliged to share the jester's sleeping-room, and as Pellicanus shrank from getting out of bed, while suffering from night-sweats, and often needed something, he roused Ulrich from his sleep, and the latter was always ready to assist him. [10]
I got angrily to my feet, but as I did so I shrank a little, for at times the wound in my side, not yet entirely healed, hurt me. [11]
When they came to Mrs. Armour, Lali shrank away timidly from the look in the mother's eyes, and, shivering slightly, looked round for her blanket. [11]
Bess shrank closer to him and closer, found his hands, and pressed them tightly over her ears, and dropped her face upon his shoulder, and hid her eyes. [13]
Charley had yielded to her request, while he shrank from granting it. [11]
She shrank closer to Ephraim from a perfumed lady who sat next to her in the car, and was thankful when at last they found themselves in the corridor of the Astor House standing before the desk. [9]
But succeeding the thrill of delight I had at thought of seeing the open world again there came a feeling of lassitude, of indifference; I shrank from the jar of activity. [11]
For Daphne's sake this decision had undoubtedly been welcome to the matron, and it pleased him also; for he still felt so ill physically, and so agitated mentally, that he shrank from meeting his numerous acquaintances in the capital. [10]
She never spoke the words now, but whenever she thought them her heart shrank in pain. [11]
She shrank from the uprolling of the curtain of the last thirteen years, from the grim exposure of the nakedness of their life together. [11]
But now that the time had come for it, I shrank from such a meeting. [9]
At each blow the old man shrank as if it had fallen on himself. [10]
In spite of the joy I felt at being near her, seeing her, I shrank from the situation. [11]
Nebsecht shrank back; the greedy look, the glistening teeth, the dark, rough features of the man terrified him. [10]
He looked at the foolish little woman with so cruel a flash of the eye that she shrank back. [11]
Wherever he went the enemy shrank before him; the Swedes fled to right and left, or were driven, like dogs, into their own ditch; but as he pushed forward, singly with headlong courage, the foe closed behind and hung upon his rear. [4]
Macrinus now governed the empire almost as a sovereign, for Caesar, formerly a laborious and autocratic ruler, shrank from all business. [10]
I grew into the emotions of ripening youth, and all that I could have loved shrank from my presence. [6]
But she laid the blame not at his door; she rather shrank with inner bitterness from the cynical cruelty of nature, which, in deforming the body, with a merciless cruelty had deformed a noble mind. [11]
He knew dimly that the thing he shrank from belonged to nothing Romany in her, but to that scornful pride of the Gorgios which had kept the Romany outside the social pale. [11]
She noticed too that he shrank from her words. [11]
But Barbara's vivacious temperament shrank from their summons as from the tomb or the dungeon and, with all due reverence, she said so to the kindly nuns. [10]
Then at last, slowly, and with no roughness, as the terror- stricken impostor shrank and withered, he cut the cords. [11]
I will not shrink I shrank yesterday because I was afraid of the world; to-day I will face it, I will--" She stopped suddenly, and another look flashed into her face. [11]
The old man shrank, then said coldly: "Have you the marriage- certificate? [11]
She feared, she shrank, she grew sick at heart. [11]
The same: she shrank from him, was impatient, agitated, unhappy, went out alone. [11]
Her sunny nature shrank from diffusing shadow and darkness around her. [10]
The artist himself shrank from contact with this overpowering display, and said that he could not endure more than a day or two of it. [4]
Her nature, however, shrank from any act which might appear dramatic or sensational. [9]
The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but from behind still came the shouts: "Onto the ice, why do you stop? [2]
And yet he shrank back in awe at the change in it. [9]
He thought that she shrank from what she had seen of his real self, much or little, and he was conscious of so many gifts and abilities and attractive personal qualities that he felt a sense of injury. [11]
And here, suddenly, she shrank again, but with a different thought. [11]
She shrank, for she saw in his nod and his smile that suggestion of knowing all about everything and everybody, and thinking the worst, which had chilled her so often. [11]
He trembled slightly, seized her slender right hand so impetuously that she shrank back, raised it first to his lips, then to his eyes, and held it there for several minutes. [10]
The high, arched room was only dimly lighted by a hanging-lamp, but when Frau Schimmel heard his steps she shrank together till, as she fancied, she must have become smaller and less easily discoverable. [10]
Presently she became restless, and shrank from him. [11]
He did not recognise them, but Delia, seeing him, shrank away in a corner of the carriage, trembling. [11]
She had hardly reached the mouth of the cave, when she heard steps approaching her lurking place, and again she shrank back. [10]
His news of Philip's departure was regretted by all, and he was delighted to perceive that Pulcheria seemed startled and presently shrank into the background. [10]
He shrank back out of the glare of the sun; for it suddenly seemed to him that there was written upon his fore head, "This is a brother of Cain. [11]
She shrank from opening it again, as she laid the beloved mementoes back into the box, yet her breast heaved as she thought of Peter. [10]
The Little Chemist only shrank back, and said, "No, no, pardon, my friend! [11]
She was not one who shrank from self-knowledge, and the question put itself to her, "Whither was this matter tending? [9]
The doubtful means of making money, the pace of fashionable life, the wasteful prodigality of the time, we instinctively shrank from speaking of before Margaret. [4]
She was afraid of him, she shrank from such a conspicuous sign of his favour. [9]
When the merriment of her guests rose to a higher pitch than usual, or something amusing gave rise to a shout of laughter, Berenike shrank, and either muttered some unintelligible threat or besought the forgiveness of her daughter's manes. [10]
Excellency, I have now great riches--since Death smote Foorgat Bey in the forehead" --still his eyes conveyed no meaning, though Hylda shrank back--"and I would use them for the good thou wouldst do here. [11]
And when I noted that all were afraid of this man, and shrank and fidgeted in their seats when his eye smote theirs, my last poor ray of hope dissolved away and wholly disappeared. [5]
The mouth and nostrils were slightly contracted, as if they shrank from breathing the same air with other human beings. [10]
And how much nearer than the other was the woman--she shrank from the word--whom she was about to betray, how much greater was Cleopatra's claim to her love and gratitude! [10]
He made a movement towards Krool, who again suddenly shrank, as he would not have shrunk from a weapon of steel. [11]
He drew her more closely to him in blissful expectation; but she shyly shrank from his touch, and before he could murmur a single word of love she exclaimed in terror, as though the hand of the persecutor were already laid on her: "Fly, fly! [10]
And for a moment this look was more startling, more appalling than the other; he shrank from it, resented it even more. [9]
In my youth men whose natures shrank not from encounter with their enemies lacked not, I warrant you, a checkered experience. [9]
In the room men shrank back, for they knew that death was behind the little door, and that they were in the presence of a sorrow greater than death. [11]
She read his look, and while one part of her shrank from him as from some noisome thing, another part of her--to her dismay and anger--understood him, and did not resent him. [11]
He seemed to look at nobody; but some of them shrank a little as he leaned over and poured the brown, steaming liquid and the hot milk into the bowls. [11]
It was not long, yet it seemed as if she shrank in terror from me, her own clear father. [10]
She shrank a little: it seemed uncanny. [11]
Whispering together they listened, and Stafford shrank away to the far side of the room; but more than one face showed pleasure in the sound of the whip and the moaning. [11]
Her feet were like lead, her spirit quivered and shrank by turn. [11]
She had a kind of terror of Elsie; and the thought of having charge of her, of being alone with her, of coming under the full influence of those diamond eyes,--if, indeed, their light were not dimmed by suffering and weariness,--was one she shrank from. [6]
And following Mr. Jenks's directions she put her toe on the tread, and shrank back when the monster responded with a snort and a roar. [9]
Hodder shrank from it as from an ordeal. [9]
Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more. [2]
I did not interrupt him to vindicate the truth, but I shrank in horror with the feeling of having witnessed a crime. [10]
And she shrank instinctively from it all. [4]
Even the stolid Indians, as Roman soldiers, shrank awe-stricken from the sacred tragedy. [11]
She shrank back in blind misunderstanding from him, for she scarcely heard his words. [11]
So, inside the house, also, Pierre almost shrank from the unknown sorrow of this man beside him, who was about to disclose the story of his life. [11]
When he and his wife first visited the little farm after their marriage the old mother shrank away from the young woman's painted face, and ever afterwards an added sadness showed in her bearing and in her patient smile. [11]
She shrank within herself at the idea of being alone with him. [11]
Instead of hating her, or even wishing to share the heart of the man she loved with his bride, she shrank from the approaching necessity of clouding her young happiness as though it were the direst misfortune. [10]
For a moment her thin, delicate figure shrank from the cutting wind. [4]
Her heart shrank, her mind got tortured. [11]
She shrank, but her hands lay passive in his. [11]
She shrank from hearing it, and confessed that she was superstitious, and, prone at all times to the involuntary recurrence of any thoughts of ominous gloom which might have been suggested to her. [14]
He glowed with health and vigour, with an aggressiveness from which she shrank, yet found delicious. [9]
As a man, he shrank from confessing to her, however indirectly, the fact that she herself was so vital an element in his disillusionment. [9]
He understood; but he shrank at the thought of the nature of the interview which she must have, at the thought of the meeting at all. [11]
In his hand he held the key of the church, which he had promised the door-keeper to deliver to Petrus; but all was so still in the senator's house, that he shrank from rousing the sleepers. [10]
But, by degrees, he grasped the purport of whole sentences, and now he understood all that they said, not a word of their further conversation escaped him, and it was absorbing enough, though it revealed a gulf from which he shrank shuddering. [10]
But his companion--she had recognized him distinctly and shrank a little--his companion was Hur, the man who a few hours before had sought her for his wife. [10]
And Pierre, who had never feared anyone, shrank from the look in The Man's eyes. [11]

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