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Sentences ending with shrinking

She had shown no surprise, no shrinking. [11]
She felt herself going round and round and round in a circle, not forlorn enough to rebel or break away, but dazed and wondering and shrinking. [11]
When answered, she asked nervously how he looked--it was impossible that she should consider misery without shrinking. [11]

More example sentences with the word shrinking in them

When the door was closed, he turned round on Louise slowly, and then he held out his hands to her, for she was shrinking away, as though he had repulsed her. [11]
His eyes, screwed up with fear as if he every moment expected another blow, gazed up at Rostov with shrinking terror. [2]
She pulled herself together, and said, 'I must conquer this shrinking body of mine, by my will. [11]
I had expected to feel some dread, or shrinking, or at least some sense of insecurity, but I did not the slightest, then or afterwards; and I think mine is the usual experience. [4]
Unconsciously, unintentionally, she smiled at him now, then, realising, retreated, shrinking from him, her face averted. [11]
He was a simple-hearted old gentleman, of a shrinking, subdued spirit, accustomed to retirement, and very little acquainted with the world, which he had left many years before to come and settle in that place. [12]
A bewildered, almost shrinking look came into Sir William's eyes, as the other stood full in the light of the candles. [11]
He felt them shrinking from her inquisition. [11]
The recluse life she had led, was the cause of a nervous shrinking from meeting any fresh face, which lasted all her life long. [14]
At one time she could not be touched ever so lightly without shrinking and crying out. [6]
A mortal disease sets in, which keeps pace with the shrinking skin, and his life and his talisman come to an end together. [6]
Inflicting, we are prone to cruelty, as you have seen a schoolmaster begin punishment with tears, grow angry at the shrinking back under his cane, and give way to a sudden lust of torture. [11]
It seemed to penetrate into the very bones of the shrinking wayfarers, and to rack them with cold and pains. [12]
He must sit opposite his father day by day at table, talk with him, care for him, shrinking inwardly at every knock at the door lest it should be an officer come to carry the pitiful traitor off to prison. [11]
As he lives on, satisfying one desire, one passion, after another, the process of shrinking continues. [6]
For a summary of his character one would not have used the phrase (as a contemporary of his remarked) of "a shrinking violet. [9]
Behind all her nervous shrinking and her heart's doubt, the memory of the face of the stranger she had seen last night with Sir Andrew Melvill tortured her. [11]
A woman might marry, thinking she cared, and all too soon, sometimes before the second day had dawned, learn that shrinking and repugnance which not even habit can modify or obscure. [11]
But as she lay on the edge of the bed, shrinking from contamination, in the throes of excitement inspired by an unnamed fear, she grew hot, she could feel and almost hear the pounding of her heart. [9]
I see that it is the same thing as the sentiment --perhaps it is the shrinking which every soul that is a soul has, sooner or later, from isolation--which grew up between Herbert and the Young Lady Staying With Us. [4]
When the President intimates that something in the way of improvements may properly be done by the General Government, he is shrinking from the conclusions to which his own arguments would force him. [7]
With her woman's instinct she knew that he loved Guida, but she also knew that nothing which might have happened between them could have brought this look of shame and shrinking into his face. [11]
The public banquet in New York, that was long remembered for its brilliancy, was followed by the tender of the same tribute in other cities, an honor which his unconquerable shrinking from this kind of publicity compelled him to decline. [4]
In another half- hour they were under way in the gaudy light of an orange sunrise, a simmering wind from the sea lifting them up the river, and the grey-red coast of Labrador shrinking sullenly back. [11]
A look of horrified amazement, of shrinking anguish, crossed over her face. [11]
He was certain his time had come; and with that conviction upon him, the terror of the thing and the horrible physical shrinking almost passed away from him. [11]
To be near him was everything; but that was all dead and done for; and now--it was at this point that, shrinking, she suddenly threw off all restraining thoughts. [11]
They recurred to her now,--with no shrinking from the spirits of the Dead, but with such an intense longing once more to stand face to face with the souls of her sisters, as no one but she could have felt. [14]
He had seen her before several times, and he had always noticed the air, half bravado, half shrinking, marking her walk and movements, as though two emotions were fighting in her. [11]
From hints she had had from Constantine that very day she knew that the rumour was the truth; and she recalled now with shrinking dislike the grimace accompanying the suggestion. [11]
At first there had been a timid shrinking, but soon her father and herself were brighter and better for the old Irishwoman's presence, and she began to take comfort in Mrs. Flynn. [11]
He had hardly finished his tale, shrinking, as he told it, from the fierceness of his chief, when a voice called from the direction of the house. [11]
The blaze was fierce and swift, as it could not help being with such a mass of combustibles,--loose straw from the mattress, dry old furniture, and old warped floors which had been parching and shrinking for a score or two of years. [6]
How she had fallen--how broken and spiritless must she be--to have still the same old horror of Lassiter's guns and his name, yet feel somehow a cold, shrinking protection in their law and might and use. [13]
That afternoon and evening Guida struggled with herself: the woman in her shrinking from the ordeal at hand. [11]
But once she drew shrinking back behind a slow troop of them; for down at the bottom of a gorge lay a mountaineer, face upward and unmoving, as he had lain since a rock loosened beneath him, and the depths swallowed him. [11]
Mr. Crewe sat down again, and not being hampered by those shrinking qualities so fatal to success he went on immediately:--"There is nothing which I have to say that the senator cannot hear. [9]
He pondered, more curious the more he learned, but he curbed his inquisitive desires, for he saw her shrinking on the verge of that shame, the causing of which had occasioned him such self-reproach. [13]
Dicky weighed his chances with a little shrinking, but with no fear: he had been in imminent danger for four long months, and he was little likely to give way now. [11]
It was whispered by those who should have known, that these were Sampson and his sister Sally; and to this day, it is said, they sometimes pass, on bad nights, in the same loathsome guise, close at the elbow of the shrinking passenger. [12]
There was the broad, dowager woman, preceded by a meek, shrinking little man, whose whole appearance was an apology. [4]
Filled with reverent awe she sank down close to the door of the sacred chamber, shrinking close into the angle formed between a projecting door-post and the wall of the great hall. [10]
Perhaps he detected an instinctive shrinking on the rector's part. [9]
Who has been able truly to read the thoughts of a shrinking maiden in the passing days of her youth and beauty? [4]

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