Ashley screamed with a look so threatening that the devil himself would have cowered in fear. |
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Many people cowered from criticising him, not least because of his readiness to confront his critics in the libel courts. |
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It was difficult for his cowered staff to stand up to this overbearing behaviour. |
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Unfortunately, he may have cowered away by developing a plot line that, while entertaining and engaging, is largely unoriginal and derivative. |
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He cowered in a hedge fearing she would return to run him over, the Feilding High Court was told. |
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When it hissed, the very heavens shook, and when it growled, the earth cowered in fear. |
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He stepped closer as she cowered in fear and a beam of moonlight illuminated his face. |
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She tried to be strong, to draw courage unto herself, but it failed her and she cowered in fear. |
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John cowered in the corner of the Golden Goose waiting room, keeping the potted palm between him and the overbright entrance. |
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He said the blows, kicks and punches continued even when he cowered on the floor with his hands protecting his head. |
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In response, the girl just cowered away from him, crawling backwards on her hands and knees. |
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In a bed nearby, a little boy cowered, listening to the thunder of shellfire. |
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He was beaten to the floor, where he cowered and tried to protect himself from the shower of blows. |
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Near Freder, upon the illuminated mosaic floor, cowered the little drink-mixer, sobbing uncontrolledly. |
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She cowered in a dark corner crying for the rest of the night, the scary sight still haunting her nervous mind. |
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They cowered in the corridors of Parliament House when a hireling of John Wren whispered what might happen to them if they did not toe the line. |
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As the players and umpires cowered on the floor of their vehicles for 20 minutes while the bullets flew, several received shrapnel wounds. |
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While we've led the charge against the media barons, Labour has cowered before them for decades. |
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And then the horses cowered lower and lower, and moaned in terror as men do in pain. |
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All was in dead, grim silence only that the horses whinnied and cowered, as if in terror of the worst. |
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Further and further back he cowered, as we, lifting our crucifixes, advanced. |
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One cowered in fear, while the other looked down in loathing. |
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Chris had cowered about in silence as the prosecuting attorneys had gone through question after question, each ripping into him one after another. |
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For over an hour a gun battle raged between them and my guards as I cowered inside my car, not knowing if I would live or die. |
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Meara cowered, for the one thing she feared was her lord and master. |
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This crow skulked and cowered up to the buzzard, sometimes lying low to the ground, sometimes popping up into the air, always trying to stay behind the enemy. |
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As they cowered behind the sink unit, she wedged herself halfway through the sash window. |
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The leaves of the trees rustled as if in sympathy as the dog cowered at the door. |
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Instinctively they cowered aside and let him pass. In an instant he had jumped upon the cart, and with a strength which seemed incredible, raised the great box, and flung it over the wheel to the ground. |
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She cowered and tried to hide from the light that emanated from him. |
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Michel del Castillo's book has an account of how a neighbor came into her darkened apartment one night and found Joël alone in his room and supperless, while Gabrielle cowered in an armchair in the living room. |
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In a small cave on one side of the tunnel path cowered Gertrud. |
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She still cowered fearfully inside the niche. |
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They cowered away like dogs about to be stoned. |
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Then a pillar of dust whirled down from the vault of heaven, even unto me as I stood alone, half-defiant, in the midst of the temple while the priests and the people cowered and wailed afar off. |
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