Example Sentences

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The slim greyhound, constantly trembling, has cowered down in a corner.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William

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.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

In this miserable delusion he has cowered there for five and thirty years.

From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel