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Sentences ending with shrink

Aye, even from that he would not shrink! [10]
M. Savry's method of punishing was of a kind to make men shrink. [11]
True, it was not to be sent until to-morrow, but there is nothing of which we are more glad to rid ourselves than the disagreeable transactions from which we shrink. [10]
It was not in her nature to shrink. [5]
You see, I have known him better than you for the last five years, and I am the best judge please, I mean it in the rightest, kindest way," she added, as she saw Mona shrink. [11]

More example sentences with the word shrink in them

No doubt it will be hard to you to crave a boon, but ought you to shrink from those few steps over sharp stones? [10]
It was that which made Jethro Fawe shrink and cower for a moment. [11]
In the battle which he had commenced he must not shrink from wounds, and he was struck by many a poisoned shaft. [10]
Martina's eyes, too, were fixed on Orion; she saw how pale he turned at seeing the young widow, she saw him start as though suddenly overcome by some emotion--what, she could not guess--and shrink back from the sunlit vision in the window. [10]
Her manner, so well-controlled, though her features seemed to shrink all at once, if it did not deceive him, gave him the wish to say an affectionate thing. [11]
Virginia's first impulse was to shrink under the stairs. [9]
Your diploma seems very broad to-day with your list of accomplishments, but it begins to shrink from this hour like the Peau de Chagrin of Balzac's story. [3]
There was an undercurrent in the lives of both that made him shrink from going deep into any domestic difference. [4]
His heart seemed to shrink to nothingness. [11]
David's figure seemed to shrink for a moment, his face had a withered look, and his head fell forward in a mood of terrible dejection. [11]
On his return to Memphis, Cambyses did not shrink from personally ill-treating his wife and sister, Atossa. [10]
His being seemed to expand suddenly to an enormity of chaos and then as suddenly to shrink, dwindle, and fall back into a smother--as though, in falling, blankets were drawn roughly over his head and a thousand others were shaken in the air around him. [11]
Guida, so Detricand thought, might break her heart and live on; this woman would break her heart and die: the one would grow larger through suffering, the other shrink to a numb coldness. [11]
I have considered this, and will not shrink from the responsibility. [7]
The history of this great State, the renown of those great men who have stood here, and have spoken here, and have been heard here, all crowd around my fancy, and incline me to shrink from any attempt to address you. [7]
Yet it made them shrink a little, too, to see his blind eyes looking out straight before him. [11]
Discipline, indeed, required that they should submit; and many a man who would have flown to meet death on the field as a bride, quailed before the terrible adventurer who would not shrink from the most hideous deeds. [10]
Still Philip felt that if he was going to make either reputation or money as an engineer, he had a great deal of hard study before him, and it is to his credit that he did not shrink from it. [5]
He did not shrink, however, but kept his head and watched. [11]
She did not shrink, as she had so often done since his return, when he laid his hand on hers for an instant, as he asked her if she were willing that he should go. [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]
He did not shrink from the thought. [11]
You will not shrink from the idea of giving something more than a hundred guineas for a series of Hogarth's plates. [6]
Kitty did not shrink from looking Mona in the eyes. [11]
To-day it was said to the captain, in the hearing of all, that some of the men would not shrink, when a man was dead, from using the flesh, though they would not kill. [5]
One cannot but respect that tremulous sensitiveness which caused the maiden lady to shrink from staring at the moon when she heard there was a man in it. [4]
But he was quite fearless, and if it was not his duty to provoke a difficulty, his fighting nature would not shrink from giving as good as he got. [11]
I shrink from putting on paper the sentimental side of my nature, and indeed I could give no adequate idea of my affection for that drum. [9]
In his large presence the other popes and politicians shrink to midges for the microscope. [5]
But does the preacher in the pulpit, Sunday after Sunday, year after year, shrink from speaking of sin? [4]
From his knowledge of Iras's character she might be expected, if she learned that some one had come between her and the friend of her youth, to shrink from no means of spoiling her game. [10]
But he had noticed Lali shrink visibly and flush slightly when some one stared harder than usual, and this troubled him. [11]
Ah, do you not shrink from me, Monsieur le Cure? [11]
The mind did not shrink from any thought of the dangers in which he would be placed, from any vision of the struggle he must have with intrigue, and treachery and vileness. [11]
The struggle did not last long, for Paaker seemed to shrink up, and lost his human form, and fell at the poet's feet--not my son, but a shapeless lump of clay such as the potter uses to make jars of. [10]
These things can never be important to the elephant; they are nothing to him; he cannot shrink his sympathies to the microscopic size of them. [5]
And yet she must not shrink from the extra responsibility implied by the very fact of her possessing such talents. [14]
In passing, these monstrous rags of cloud hung low and swept along right over the spectator's head, swinging their tatters so nearly in his face that his impulse was to shrink when they came closet. [5]
Every impulse to love dalliance, she felt, must shrink before this great sorrow. [10]
She would not look when the doctor came, and she would not answer, but kept her eyes closed; and she did not shrink when they dressed the arm so cruelly wounded by the camel's teeth, but lay still and dumb. [11]
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear. [5]
At first the lad liked to stroll through the streets and watch the long, brilliant processions, or timidly shrink back when closely-muffled men, their figures wholly invisible except the eyes and feet, bore a corpse along, or glided on mysterious missions through the streets. [10]
While they waited, Krool seemed to shrink a little; but as he watched like some animal at bay, Stafford noticed that his face became venomous and paler, and some sinister intention showed in his eyes. [11]
The demand is just, and if you elect me, I will stand by it, and not shrink if it rouses murmuring behind me or against me. [10]
Before we know it we become demoralized, and shrink from the tonic of the sudden change to sharp weather, as the steamed hydropathic patient does from the plunge. [4]
All I know is that where any advantage is to be gained for the Queen, she does not shrink even from doubtful means, and also that the hours speed swiftly for any one in her society. [10]
An unpleasant fellowship--but I do not shrink from it; for death robbed him of life, and from my hand--I ask only a brief moment. [10]
Then they saw him shrink, his eyes fixed upon some one behind them. [9]
The thought made her shrink away from herself, as it were, yet she caught up the candle and lighted it. [11]
Then his tortured heart seemed to shrink, and, pressing his hand on his brow, he paused some time ere he answered gloomily: "It is for them that I go. [10]
He felt that he had no moral right to shrink, nor even to count the chances of his own life, in what might follow. [7]
Now, if she goes to take the cars, she is not permitted to go into a clean car with decent people, but is ordered into one that is repellent, and is forced into company that any refined woman would shrink from. [4]
Well-bred people shrink from the vulgarity of violence, and avoid the publicity of any open rupture in domestic and social relations. [4]
Will she shrink from him as Dame Gossenprot did at Augsburg, and the inn-keeper's smart wife at Ingolstadt, who of old was so over-eager to be at his service? [10]
Since this young fellow went out into the world from his New England home, he had done some things that he would rather his mother should not know, things maybe that he would shrink from telling Ruth. [5]
He did not feel her shrink, and no one, seeing, could have said that she shrank from him in ever so little. [11]
This was a feat from which our modern stone-workers shrink dismayed. [6]
His staring blue eyes took on a dull cloud, and his whole figure seemed to sink and shrink away. [11]
The court-artist might easily shrink from coming in contact with the pupil of Moor, who had now lost the sovereign's favor. [10]
It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. [7]
From the front doorway watching a poor criminal shrink beneath the lash with which he was being flogged from the Vier Marchi to the Vier Prison. [11]
Convinced, she now contracts her vast design, And all her triumphs shrink into a coin. [6]
His natural diffidence and his reluctance to a routine life made him shrink from the diplomatic appointment; but once engaged in it, and launched again in London society, he was reconciled to the situation. [4]
To have house and Bible shrink so, under the disillusioning corrected angle, is loss-for a moment. [5]
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity, as. [6]
He laughed in a snarling way that made me shrink, and answered: "He wanted this and he wanted that--his high-handed, second-best lordship. [11]
I shrink from a lawless independence to which all the virile energy and trampling audacity of Mr. Whitman fail to reconcile me. [6]

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