Example Sentences

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"Ay," returned Lord Andrew; "but the royal spirit keeps the beast in awe-see how coweringly that bold spirit now bows before it!"

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

Then backward shrank, till abruptly checked by a column, against whose base, as were he an effigy carved upon it, he stood, gazing coweringly upward.

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison

She took an involuntary step backward, encountered the chair she had just left, and sank into it coweringly.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna

Open violence at any rate was not to be apprehended from the stunted little figure of a man who coweringly obeyed his order.

From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon

At last, a mean, half-starved dog crept coweringly across the lawn, and, drawing nigh the door, stood and whined plaintively.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James