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They cowered under their reef of counter, waiting on footstools, crates upturned, waiting for their teas to draw.

" Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his captain, crying "No, no"; but Hook was purring to his claw.

' Looking cautiously round, to ascertain that they were not overheard, the two hags cowered nearer to the fire, and chuckled heartily.

The animal looked up into his master's face while these preparations were making; whether his instinct apprehended something of their purpose, or the robber's sidelong look at him was sterner than ordinary, he skulked a little farther in the rear than usual, and cowered as he came more slowly along.

He cowered down upon his stone bed, and thought of the past.

compound, civilians cowered in fear of the next paramilitary onslaught.

Once a staple of campaign reform legislation, it is now MIA, because "broadcasters complained" and "members of Congress cowered.

When we saw this, we cowered down and leaned each of us a knee upon the ground, pointing the pistols through the bush, with an aim so steady that it was impossible to miss our victim.

Menadism, Sansculottism has cowered into guard-houses, barracks of Flandre, to the light of cheerful fire; failing that, to churches, office-houses, sentry-boxes, wheresoever wretchedness can find a lair.

His unsuccessful conspiracy excluded him from those burning climes which he deemed of right his own hereditary possession, and which now cowered, supine and sunken, under the wings of the Roman eagle.

To the right of these alae, the two comrades now directed their steps. 'The gay Glaucus will be lodged to-morrow in apartments not much drier, and far less spacious than this,' said Calenus, as they passed by the very spot where, completely wrapped in the shadow of the broad, projecting buttress, cowered the Thessalian. 'Ay, but then he will have dry room, and ample enough, in the arena on the following day.

And full, where the priests of Isis had now cowered around the altars, on which they had vainly sought to kindle fires and pour incense, one of the fiercest of those deadly torrents, mingled with immense fragments of scoria, had poured its rage.

The beauty and the unselfishness of love could hallow even that dismal time! 'Who is there?' said the trembling and hollow voice of one who had preceded them in their place of refuge. 'Yet, what matters?-the crush of the ruined world forbids to us friends or foes.' Ione turned at the sound of the voice, and, with a faint shriek, cowered again beneath the arms of Glaucus: and he, looking in the direction of the voice, beheld the cause of her alarm.

They cowered over the blaze opposite to each other, and the glare crimsoned their features.

Livid, speechless, almost trembling, he cowered beneath the eyes of Maltravers.

Besmeared with mire; his saturated clothes clinging with a damp embrace about his limbs; his beard unshaven, his face unwashed, his meagre cheeks worn into deep hollows,-a more miserable wretch could hardly be, than this man who now cowered down upon the widow's hearth, and watched the struggling flame with bloodshot eyes.

If Florence could have stood within the room and looked upon the original of the shadow thrown upon the wall and roof as it cowered thus over the fire, a glance might have sufficed to recall the figure of Good Mrs Brown; notwithstanding that her childish recollection of that terrible old woman was as grotesque and exaggerated a presentment of the truth, perhaps, as the shadow on the wall.

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