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As eagle-beaked, crook-taloned vultures from the mountains swoop down on the smaller birds that cower in flocks upon the ground, and kill them, for they cannot either fight or fly, and lookers on enjoy the sport-even so did Ulysses and his men fall upon the suitors and smite them on every side.

Notice how Rowling structures the books in strict parallel centered around the school: First we get a few chapters of Harry at home with his awful muggle relatives, who lock him in the closet, starve him, and cower at the thought that he might perform magic (his frustration at not being allowed to is part of the amusement of this section).

Republican leaders cower at Clinton's poll numbers, too fearful even to whisper what they call "the I-word.

Is it required, that there should be a sentiment of obsequiousness in the people, affecting them in a manner like the instinct by which a lower order of animals is in awe of a higher, by which the common tribe of beasts would cower at the sight of lions? When it began to be so dark that the vessels could no longer be discerned from the churchyard, many went down to the shore, and I took the three babies home with me, and Mrs Pawkie made tea for them, and they soon began to play with our own younger children, in blythe forgetfulness of the storm; every now and then, however, the eldest of them, when the shutters rattled and the lum-head roared, would pause in his innocent daffing, and cower in towards Mrs Pawkie, as if he was daunted and dismayed by something he knew not what.

Sieyes old-Constituent comes; to make new Constitutions as many as wanted: for the rest, peering out of his clear cautious eyes, he will cower low in many an emergency, and find silence safest.

Let there but come one chilling breath of the outer world, and all this loving piety would cower and fly before the sound of my own bitter laugh.

The timid mice again cower close together, when the great door clashes, and Mr Sownds and Mrs Miff treading the circle of their daily lives, unbroken as a marriage ring, come in.

No need to cower behind a gate-post, indeed!-to peep up at chamber lattices, fearing life was astir behind them! Now droop the eyes while I triumph: the plains cower, cower beneath the mountains their masters-and the Priests stomp over the clay ridges, (a palpable plagiarism from two lines of a legend that delighted my infancy, and now instruct my maturer years in pretty nearly all they boast of the semi-mythologic era referred to-'In London town, when reigned King Lud, His lords went stomping thro' the mud'-would all historic records were half as picturesque!) But you know, yes, you know you are too indulgent by far-and treat these roughnesses as if they were advanced to many a stage! I thought there was a mistake somewhere, but that it was yours, who had written one word, meaning to write another. 'Cower' puts it all right of course.

I could not help seeing that, even if I were still blinder than when I read 'Lower' for 'Cower.' But do not, I ask of you, speak of my 'kindness' ... my kindness!-mine! The "irons," innocent of coal, and polished to the tip, skulk and cower sympathetically into the extreme corner of the fender.

This thought was sometimes so oppressive that I used to shrink and cower under the consciousness of being always looked at; when I would cover my face in my hands and say aloud: ‘Oh! if I could but be sometimes alone-if I could but hide myself and be able to think as I liked and not be watched nor heard!’ And then I felt that I had spoken blasphemy and committed the unpardonable sin. page: 88 My consciousness of Christ was softer.

Miss Wellwood promised that she should not be disturbed, and she found that she must have been asleep, for she was taken by surprise by the opening of the door, and the apologetic face of the butler, who told her that a gentleman had asked if she would see him, and presented the card of "Captain Alexander Keith." Eagerly she desired that he should be admitted, tremulously she awaited his sentence upon her mother's peace, and, as she thought of all he must have heard, all he must believe, she felt as if she must flee; or, if that were impossible, cower in shrinking dread of the glance of his satirical eye! And then the outlaws must cower round it, as the cold increased on them, helping the weight of the liquor; and in their jollity any noise would be cheered as a false alarm.

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