As I shrank away from such a visitor, he came forward and seized my candle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
But tonight every fibre in her body shrank from Lily's nearness: it was torture to listen to her breathing, and feel the sheet stir with it. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Miss Bart shrank from it slightly, and then flung herself into precipitate explanations. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
The Sung empire shrank before this Kin empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
First she shrank from remark; and, if persisted in, she, with her own peculiar _hauteur_, repelled it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I tell you again, I shrank from the horror of hearing you lie, after the horror of seeing you thieve. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
I shrank from him within myself when my brother first brought him to me; but the last time I saw him he terrified me more than I can say. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
And moreover, she was afraid her hands were too large, she shrank from the mortification of a failure to put them on any but her little finger. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power, repugnant to her whole previous life. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
He shrank from saying that he had rejected Bulstrode's money, in the moment when he was learning that it was Lydgate's misfortune to have accepted it. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
She heard the sledge, saw Ursula and Birkin alight, and she shrank from these also. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Amelia shrank and started; the timid soul felt a presentiment of terror when she heard that the relations of the child's father had seen him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Bulstrode shrank--there was a visible quivering in his face and hands. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Bulstrode shrank from that result. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Agnes saw it too, I think, for she shrank from him. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
But gradually it shrank away from her and she felt the dull pavement beneath her feet. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
And again Gerald shrank in spirit, as if it would be more than he could bear, as her hot, exposed eyes rested on him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Yes, my friend, I said, and I then shrank from hazarding the bold word; but now let me dare to say--that the perfect guardian must be a philosopher. 柏拉图.理想国.
The girls shrank in a frightened group in the centre of the enclosure. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
She shrank from this ghostly surprise, and felt quite frightened as she rolled and tied it up again. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
The poor child shrank against me and I felt her two little hands fold tightly over my arm. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
Instinctively the girl shuddered, and shrank closer to the black woman. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Bannister entered, and shrank back in evident surprise and fear at our judicial appearance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
She spoke with unnecessary earnestness and agitation, and shrank back from me several paces. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
And again: it seemed no wrong to keep Raffles at a distance, but Mr. Bulstrode shrank from the direct falsehood of denying true statements. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The scene that followed, though it only lasted for a few minutes, was too painful to be described--Miss Halcombe herself shrank from referring to it. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.