"Shrink from" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do it! You despise me, perhaps, and think I'm feeble. But you're mistaken. You are ungrateful and impertinent and contemptible, but I will save you in order to save Irma and our name. There is going to be such a row in this town that you and he'll be sorry you came to it. I shall shrink from nothing, for my blood is up. It is unwise of you to laugh. I forbid you to marry Carella, and I shall ...
— Where Angels Fear to Tread • E. M. Forster
... in his sudden panic, who came to disaster. He had always been afraid of Wonota. She was a dead shot, and he believed that she would not shrink from killing him. ...
— Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest - Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies • Alice B. Emerson
... "I should not shrink from any service to my dear Cora," said Rose Stillwater, and she was about to add—"nor to you, sir," but she thought it best not to ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... has never been the same woman since the Fire of London, and it would be vain to vex her with questions. She would be of one mind while I spoke to her, and another while her women were pouring their tales into her ear. Methinks I now understand why she has always seemed to shrink from this unfortunate child, and to ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... thing in the universe to which He is opposed. Sin is essentially antagonism to God. People shrink from the thought of God's hatred of ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren
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