Use cowed in a sentence - Example Sentences for cowed
He was cowed by her intelligence.
But this was only to dye his desperation as cowed he crouched in Horne's hall.
BLOOM: (Cowed) Exuberant female.
It cowed me more than the pain, and I began to obey him at once, walking straight in at the door and towards the parlour, where our sick old buccaneer was sitting, dazed with rum.
Linton, at least, was scolding with renewed vigour; Heathcliff had moved to the window, and hung his head, somewhat cowed by her violent rating apparently.
' With this agreeable speech, Monks turned short upon the matron, and bent his gaze upon her, till even she, who was not easily cowed, was fain to withdraw her eyes, and turn them towards the ground.
Spenlow seemed quite cowed by the gentlemanly sternness of Miss Murdstone's manner, and deprecated her severity with a conciliatory little wave of his hand.
Her face, the face on which the ends of the earth have come and gone, is not pensive, not secretly smiling, but cowed by the suffering she has felt and is all too sure to feel again.
For those who have watched his career, his outspokenness on the campaign trail appears as a refusal to be cowed by yet another prison and its silly rules.
Despite early ideological and professional tinkering, the senator's son sought the Freshman Council presidency at Harvard and cowed the opposition with his precocious campaigning skills.
As "family bed" boosters have noted, male physicians, who have no idea what motherhood is like, have cowed women for decades into doing unnatural and destructive things.
Yet, sympathy is usually with strikers, and cowed politicians give in to almost all demands from almost all quarters.
Commercial channels pour programs down from the heavens that match or surpass the products of the public broadcasters, who are too cowed to produce anything as homo-proud as the new Ellen , as racy as Brooklyn South , or as culturally subversive as The Larry Sanders Show .
So we have a man's tongue "grey as the foot of a goose", a catfish "the size of a boar hog", a man who gets ready to take a blow "like a cowed dog", a night as dark "as the inside of a cow", an old man whose dugs "hung down like those on a sow hog"--an entire farmyard of likenesses.
Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.
He has the mannerisms of a bully, someone who abuses the weak and is cowed by the strong.
" Such complaints already seem to have cowed the Clinton administration.
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